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 ...
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 ...
Hackaday

How Sony Mastered The Transistor

When you think of Sony, you probably think of a technology company that’s been around forever. However, as [Asianometry] points out, it really formed in the tough years after World War II. The two ...
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 ...
Science Daily

New 3D silicon chip breakthrough could extend Moore’s Law for years

As traditional chip miniaturization slows, researchers have found a way to pack more computing power into the same space by stacking silicon circuits in multiple layers. The new process uses ...
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, ...
Hackaday

Smaller Is Sometimes Better: Why Electronic Components Are So Tiny

Over the past century, electronic engineering has improved massively. In the 1920s, a state-of-the-art AM radio contained several vacuum tubes, a few enormous inductors, capacitors and resistors, ...
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 ...
ExtremeTech

What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

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2D Transistors Could Come Sooner Than Expected

Chipmaking giants like Intel, Samsung, and TSMC see a future where key parts of silicon transistors are replaced with semiconductors that are only a few atoms thick. Although they’ve reported progress ...
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Monolithic 3D silicon chips achieve near-perfect yields at low temperatures

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a way to stack high-performance ...