Journal Nature DOI 10.1038/s41586-025-08742-4 Article Title Synaptic and neural behaviours in a standard silicon transistor Article Publication Date 26-Mar-2025 ...

In the effort to find a replacement for today's silicon chips, IBM researchers have pushed carbon nanotube technology a significant step ahead. Carbon nanotubes are very small structures made of a ...

New crystal-based transistor could replace silicon in next-gen electronics. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) Shrinking computers, faster phones, and smarter gadgets all rely on one tiny component: the ...

“The first commercial silicon transistor was a great success for TI because now military equipment could begin to use transistors.” The company had roots in electronics for oil exploration.

The first transistor, invented at Bell Labs in 1947, was a handmade device about half an inch tall—enormous by today’s ...

These electrons are zippy and help the transistor switch rapidly, but they also tend to travel up towards the gate and leak out. To prevent them from escaping, the device can be capped with a ...

Because this device had three terminals, it was called a triode, a term which, for some reason, fell out of favour in the days of silicon transistors. Compared to even early transistors, vacuum tubes ...

MIT engineers estimate that silicon transistors, essential to gadgets like iPods, phones and kitchen appliances, will hit a wall in terms of size and performance within the next 10 to 15 years.

With silicon being an expensive metalloid, graphene may someday replace it as a cheaper, and far greater transistor with speeds capable of 10,000 times that of silicon.

IBM was able to reduce the thickness of silicon on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers, the company said. The silicon body of its new 6nm gate transistor is only 4nm to 8nm thick, with proper turn ...

SALT LAKE CITY, March 15, 2011 - University of Utah researchers built "spintronic" transistors and used them to align the magnetic "spins" of electrons for a record period of time in silicon chips ...

Creating smaller transistors also will require finding a new type of insulating layer essential for the devices to switch off. As gate lengths are made smaller than 22 nanometers, the silicon dioxide ...