As transistors perform their work, you want them either fully on (for strong current) or fully off (no leakage). FinFETs approach the off-state by having more gate contact area than planar designs.

A major breakthrough came in 1958, when Texas Instruments engineer Jack Kilby demonstrated the first integrated circuit (IC). Instead of wiring individual transistors together one by one, Kilby ...

Transistors find extensive applications in electronic circuits due to their exceptional ability to amplify or switch signals with minimal power consumption. Furthermore, they can be easily integrated ...

In this lesson, students build two circuits and explore how transistors function. When Bell Labs introduced the transistor in June of 1948, a spokesman proudly announced "This cylindrical object ...

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

When we were in school, every description of how transistors work was pretty dry and had a lot of math involved. We suppose you might have had a great instructor who was able to explain things more… ...

CMOS technology uses two different types of transistors, n-type (nMOS) and p-type (pMOS), which work together in pairs in a complementary manner. The term "complementary" refers to how these two ...

The factory had to hand-select crystal transistors to make each unit work. The radios were on sale for about 19,000 yen (the TR-1 cost about 50 bucks; recall that in 1954, that was nearly $600 in ...

A gadget that boosts a laser signal by a factor of 60 - based on the transfer of photons rather than electrons - could seed a new generation of ultrafast components for optical circuits. Junji ...