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Transistors Explained: Switching and Amplification Basics

This video explains what transistors are and how they function as electronic switches and amplifiers. As a core component of ...
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Science history: Invention of the transistor ushers in the computing era — Oct. 3, 1950

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the ...
NextBigFuture

Novel All Carbon Transistor developed

“The concept brings together an assortment of existing nanoscale technologies and combines them in a new way,” said Dr. Joseph S. Friedman, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering ...
Semiconductor Engineering

TCAD Simulation Challenges For Gate-All-Around Transistors

The transition from finFET technology to Gate-All-Around (GAA) technology helps to reduce transistor variability and resume channel length scaling. It also brings several new challenges in terms of ...
ExtremeTech

7nm, 5nm, 3nm: The new materials and transistors that will take us to the limits of Moore's law

At Semicon West 2013, the annual mecca for chipmakers and their capital equipment manufacturers, Applied Materials has detailed the road beyond 14nm, all the way down to 3nm and possibly beyond. Share ...
Science Daily

Organic semiconductors: One transistor for all purposes

In mobiles, fridges, planes -- transistors are everywhere. But they often operate only within a restricted current range. Physicists have now developed an organic transistor that functions perfectly ...
NPR

'Sisters With Transistors': Pioneers Of Electronic Music

In the 1920s, the Russian physicist Leon Theremin debuted an electronic instrument that could be played without any physical contact. Players stood in front of a box and waved their hands over ...