Ars Technica

Making transistors with dissolved nanocrystals

Solution-based processing of a field-effect transistor from inorganic nanocrystals. How many transistors did they make? Do they think this can scale up to numbers required for modern devices? For ...
TechSpot

Chinese researchers create the world's smallest transistor gate

Why it matters: Moore's Law has been on life support for a while now, but it's not dead yet. Chipmakers are burning the midnight oil to miniaturize transistor designs, and a team of researchers in ...
MSN on MSN

A modern chip switches billions of transistors a second with no moving parts

Semiconductor transistors now switch states in single-digit picoseconds, enabling processors to flip billions of logic gates ...
Nanowerk

Scientists create novel, ultrathin material to make transistors

Researchers built a four-atom-thick transistor combining an atomically thin semiconductor and molecular crystal. It uses charge localization and works at room temperature. (Nanowerk News) The ability ...
Ars Technica

Using 2D materials on chips without destroying the wiring

Silicon chip manufacturers like Intel and TSMC are constantly outdoing themselves to make ever smaller features, but they are getting closer to the physical limits of silicon. “We already have very, ...
Tech Xplore on MSN

Organic transistor unites memory, signal processing and light emission below 3.5 V

Seoul National University researchers have developed an ultra-low-voltage electrochemical organic light-emitting transistor ...
Science Daily

Nanowires under tension create the basis for ultrafast transistors

Nanowires have a unique property: These ultra-thin wires can sustain very high elastic strains without damaging the crystal structure of the material. A team of researchers has now succeeded in ...
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 ...
Nanowerk

Common lab design inflates 2D transistor performance by up to six times

Lab architecture used to test 2D semiconductors artificially boosts performance metrics, making it harder to assess whether these materials can truly replace silicon. (Nanowerk News) Two-dimensional ...
ExtremeTech

What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

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Computerworld

Intel prepares for next 20 years of chip making

Intel Corp. pulled back the curtain Friday on some of its future research projects to continue making transistors smaller, faster and less power-hungry out as far as 2020. In a briefing for reporters ...