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Transistors Explained: Switching and Signal Amplification

This video explains how transistors work and how they are used to switch and amplify electrical signals in electronic ...
University of Chicago News

UChicago scientists create novel, ultrathin material to make transistors

A team of scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have created an ultrathin transistor unlike ...
Live Science on MSN

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 ...
ExtremeTech

What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

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Novel carbon nanotube-based transistors reach THz frequencies

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs), cylindrical nanostructures made of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, have proved to be ...
Physics World

Ionic transistor can be used in medical bioelectronics

Flower power: IGT-based logic gates attached to the surface of orchid petals. (Courtesy: Jennifer Gelinas/Columbia University Irving Medical Center) A new ion-driven transistor that can safely ...
Forbes

IBM Goes Vertical To Scale Transistors

At the December 2021 IEDM conference (a conference for people who design advanced semiconductors), IBM announced it was turning transistors on their heads to keep Moore’s Law scaling alive. The new ...