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MIT unveils ultra-efficient 3D transistors, could surpass silicon technology
MIT researchers have developed a new type of 3D transistor that could be more energy-efficient and powerful than current ...
PBS7y
Evolution of the Transistor
In the beginning, there was the point-contact transistor. This was the very first transistor ever made, built by Walter Brattain with the help of John Bardeen. It was made of two gold foil ...
Science Daily8d
Nanoscale transistors could enable more efficient electronics
Nanoscale 3D transistors made from ultrathin semiconductor materials can operate more efficiently than silicon-based devices, leveraging quantum mechanical properties to potentially enable ...
Semiconductor Engineering2y
What’s Different About Next-Gen Transistors
After nearly a decade and five major nodes, along with a slew of half-nodes, the semiconductor manufacturing industry will begin transitioning from finFETs to gate-all-around stacked nanosheet ...
PBS4y
The First Transistorized Computer
If transistors could replace vacuum tubes in the phone system, then they certainly could replace them in computers too. The army, with its need for ever-faster and more efficient calculations ...
Hackaday5y
Transistor Tester
For example, you can insert a resistor, a capacitor, an inductor, a diode, or a transistor and get a readout of which pin is which. It seems like magic, but [Andreas Spiess] did the research on ...
Engineering360 News6y
144 MHz Transistor Power Amplifiers
Power Amplifiers for Research Applications Amp-Line Corp. provides a wide variety of wideband AC power amplifiers and power sources solutions for today 's industrial, commercial, military and ...
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MIT unveils ultra-efficient 3D nanoscale transistors that could revolutionize future electronics
Ultrathin nanoscale 3D transistors made out of advanced semiconductor materials operate more efficiently than silicon-based ...
Nanowerk2y
Transistors explained – what they are and what they do
A transistor – a word blend of "transfer" and "resistor" – is a fundamental component of today's advanced electronics. Essentially, a transistor, as one of the foundational elements of modern ...
PC Magazine1y
process technology
The particular manufacturing method used to make silicon chips, which is measured by the size of the transistor's elements. The driving force behind the design of integrated circuits is ...
Hackaday2y
The Q2, A PDP8-Like Discrete Transistor Computer
[Joe Wingbermuehle] has an interest in computers-of-old, and some past experience of building computers on perfboard from discrete transistors, so this next project, Q2, is a complete ...
ExtremeTech22d
What Are Semiconductors, and What Are They Made Of?
Ingots are sliced into wafers just a few millimeters thick, lapped and polished to a flawless mirror shine, and then etched with functional patterns (such as resistors, transistors, and capacitors ...