USC-led SWIFT project aims to reinvent the transistor using waves of magnetism, potentially slashing energy use and cooling costs, while helping GPS resist jamming ...

A color changing neuromorphic transistor uses ion movement to retain recent tactile signals and display pressure patterns, linking short term electrical memory with visible feedback. (Nanowerk ...

Transistors, the building blocks of modern electronics, are typically made of silicon. Because it's a semiconductor, this material can control the flow of electricity in a circuit. But silicon has ...

Inside there's a coil of wire wrapped around an iron core. When a current flows through this control wire, it creates a magnetic field. This pulls down the metal switch on top, which contacts the ...

Transistors, small devices that can amplify or switch electrical signals, are central components of all modern computer chips and digital devices. There are two main types of transistors, known as ...

While it is often overlooked, the steady evolution of the power transistor has played a key role in the successful development of a wide variety of applications from avionics and radar systems to ...

The growing energy use of AI has gotten a lot of people working on ways to make it less power hungry. One option is to develop processors that are a better match to the sort of computational needs of ...

But RF engineers have run into a different problem. As RF switches shrink, unwanted effects such as parasitic capacitance and contact resistance begin to dominate, and at advanced process nodes those ...

As the global semiconductor industry enters the so-called 2-nanometer process era, the actual size of transistors—the core components of semiconductor chips—still remains above 10 nm. How much smaller ...