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One material, two transistor types: 'Universal charge injector' points toward densely stacked AI chips

A new approach could help make future AI chips smaller and more energy-efficient. A KAIST-led research team has used a single ...
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'Extreme' transistor can withstand heat of 1000-plus F — priming it for use in Venus-bound probes

The silicon carbide transistor is designed to avoid low controllability and current leakage, which typically become problems ...

Transistors Changed Everything. Here’s How They Work

Inside there's a coil of wire wrapped around an iron core. When a current flows through this control wire, it creates a magnetic field. This pulls down the metal switch on top, which contacts the ...
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A transistor that survives 1,000 degrees could finally let a probe sit on Venus

Researchers at Kyoto University have built a silicon carbide transistor that keeps working normally at temperatures up to ...
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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 ...
USC Viterbi School of Engineering

Building a Better Transistor

USC-led SWIFT project aims to reinvent the transistor using waves of magnetism, potentially slashing energy use and cooling costs, while helping GPS resist jamming ...
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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 . . .
PBS

A Working Junction Transistor

There was no doubt about it, point-contact transistors were fidgety. The transistors being made by Bell just didn't work the same way twice, and on top of that, they were noisy. While one lab at Bell ...
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Science history: Invention of the transistor ushers in the computing era — Oct. 3, 1950

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley had submitted the patent application for a "three-electrode circuit element ...
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The transistor’s story is one of innovation and immigration

On Dec. 16, 1947, the future began with the invention of the transistor. A lab notebook indicates that researchers at Bell Telephone Laboratories first got the thing to work on this day 75 years ago.
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Taiwanese researchers’ atomic-scale ‘primer coat’ prevents leakage in next-gen transistors

Taiwanese researchers have developed a new atomically thin “primer coat” for molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂) ...
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 ...