The University of Chicago Chronicle

UChicago scientists create novel, ultrathin material to make transistors

The ability to make a very miniature on/off switch changed the world. These tiny switches, known as transistors, make up the basis of all modern computing—they drive your cell phones, your bank ...
Hackaday

Inside A Germanium Transistor

The first transistors were point contact devices, not far from the cats-whiskers of early radio receivers. They were fragile and expensive, and their performance was not very high. The transistor ...
Semiconductor Engineering

LLM-Based AI Agent That Automates The Transistor Sizing Process (Univ. of Edinburgh)

A new technical paper titled “EEsizer: LLM-Based AI Agent for Sizing of Analog and Mixed Signal Circuit” was published by researchers at The University of Edinburgh. “The design of Analog and ...
Live Science

Science history: Invention of the transistor ushers in the computing era — Oct. 3, 1950

On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...
The Conversation

‘Spooky action at a distance’ – a beginner’s guide to quantum entanglement and why it matters in the real world

Michele Governale receives funding from the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. Ulrich Zuelicke receives funding from Te Whai Ao - Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and ...
ExtremeTech

What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

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Science Daily

Scientists built a transistor that could leave silicon in the dust

Shrinking silicon transistors have reached their physical limits, but a team from the University of Tokyo is rewriting the rules. They've created a cutting-edge transistor using gallium-doped indium ...
Hackaday

Simulating High-Side Bootstrap Circuits With LTSpice

LTSpice is a tool that every electronics nerd should have at least a basic knowledge of. Those of us who work professionally in the analog and power worlds rely heavily on the validity of our ...
HotHardware

New Breakthrough Transistor Tech Claims To Leave TSMC And Intel In The Dust

For decades, the semiconductor industry has been laser-focused on shrinking silicon transistors, but Peking University researchers believe the future might lie in changing materials entirely. In a ...
PC Gamer

Return of the gigahertz wars: New Chinese transistor uses bismuth instead of silicon to potentially sock it to Intel and TSMC with 40% more speed

7 GHz-plus computing here we come...? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Silicon has dominated the chip industry as its foundational ...
EDN

A new platform for thermally stable DRAM peripheral transistors

Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips contain many other transistors besides the access transistor to enable full operation of the DRAM memory. These peripheral transistors must meet stringent ...