How Do Transistors Work? At its core, a transistor is an electronic gatekeeper. It controls the flow of electric current through a semiconductor material.

Remove the voltage, and the channel vanishes—switching it “off.” Despite these technical differences, all transistors perform the same job: using a small input to control a larger output.

And, by using a second atomically thin material for a key component (plus a clever arrangement of parts), the team behind the design has made sure that the whole transistor is easy to make and ...

While many research efforts are underway to develop active devices that can function in the challenging terahertz spectrum, ...

Optimizing Drone Payload Systems Using Capacitive-Based Encoders What Inspired the Invention of the Transistor? Transistors have come a long way from the first point-contact model (Fig. 1).

Finnish company Semiqon has developed a transistor that operates with virtually zero heat dissipation. They have made silicon ...

How chip manufacturers choose to make this transistor design compatible with their processes would determine the availability of this level of security. A chip computes using millions of transistors ...

According to the team, their transistor can run 40% faster than today’s most advanced 3-nanometer silicon chips — and it does so while using 10% less energy.

Modified wood Researchers at Linköping University, together with colleagues from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, have developed the world’s first electrical transistor made of wood. (Courtesy: ...

A new transistor has managed to overcome the theoretical limit on minimum silicon transistor size.

A high-quality, flexible transistor, made entirely from colloidal nanocrystals, has been developed by a team in the US. By sequentially depositing their components in the form of nanocrystal “inks,” ...

A reconfigurable transistor can run AI processes using 100 times less electricity than the standard transistors found in silicon-based chips. It could help spur development of a new generation of ...