Morning Overview on MSN

Engineers at Illinois just stacked silicon transistors three layers deep — 625 per layer, matching standard chip performance and finally giving Moore’s Law a new path for…

For decades, chipmakers kept Moore’s Law alive by shrinking transistors sideways, etching ever-finer features into flat slabs ...
Nanowerk

Vacuum channel transistor suppresses gate leakage to enter chip circuits

A vacuum channel transistor controls electrons at the cathode to suppress gate leakage, letting it work inside amplifiers and ...
Tech Xplore on MSN

Phosphonate groups lift organic transistor performance by balancing ions and charge flow

By electrochemically introducing phosphonate ester groups into conductive polymer films, researchers at Science Tokyo have ...
PBS

Lesson 3

In this lesson, students search for transistor-based devices at school. They use the results of their search to explain the significance of the transistor in their lives. A transistor is a tiny device ...
Electronic Design

History of the Transistor: How “Can You Hear Me Now” Led to Today’s Tech

The history of the transistor and similar types. How transistors made an impact on the world. How grudges eventually subside. Transistors are simple electronic devices that boost or switch electrical ...
PBS

Lesson 4

In this lesson, students build two circuits and explore how transistors function. When Bell Labs introduced the transistor in June of 1948, a spokesman proudly announced "This cylindrical object . . .
Marketplace

75 years ago, the transistor ignited the fire of modern innovation

The future began 75 years ago this week with the invention of something small that’s considered the most manufactured item in human history. Odds are, you are surrounded by them right now. The ...
DATAQUEST

Huawei presents Tau (τ) scaling law, enabling breakthroughs in transistor density and system performance

Innovative technologies such as LogicFolding, can be used to continuously compress signal propagation delay and steadily ...

Memory-preserving transistors could bypass the Boltzmann limit

Researchers have created a new theoretical framework that shows how memory-preserving "memtransistors" could overcome the ...
Ars Technica

Transistor with a 1nm gate size is the world’s smallest

Conventional silicon-based electronics are rapidly approaching a fundamental barrier. Below about five nanometers, quantum effects make their behavior unpredictable. That’s led to research into ...
PBS

Lesson 4

In this lesson, students build two circuits and explore how transistors function. When Bell Labs introduced the transistor in June of 1948, a spokesman proudly announced "This cylindrical object . . .