Essentially, a transistor, as one of the foundational elements of modern electronic devices, is made up of three layers of a semiconductor material, typically silicon, each layer possessing a ...

Advances in materials and architecture could lead to silicon-free chip manufacturing thanks to a new type of transistor.

It can only add single bits at a time and is limited to kilohertz clock speeds, but it is capable of executing the full ...

There is another family of transistors which have analogous circuit configurations to their bipolar cousins but work in a completely different way: the Field Effect Transistors, or FETs.

Transistors had become commonplace in everything from radios to phones to computers, and now manufacturers wanted something even better. Sure, transistors were smaller than vacuum tubes ...

The team led by Associate Professor Mario Lanza from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the College of ...

as this loss can vary for different paths in a system. For voltage logic levels in electrical lines, we may have to wait for the input capacitance of the receiving transistor to charge through the ...

Trying different semiconductors and doping with ... (Germanium was used to make the first working transistor five years later.) Scientists also learned new techniques on how best to grow and ...