SpaceNews

Testing, Radiation Testing: Northwestern Transistors On Space Station

EVANSTON, Ill. — Transistors based on a new kind of material created by Northwestern University researchers have been lifted into outer space on the space shuttle Endeavour and attached to the outside ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Forget transistors: an intelligent material computes like a brain

Engineers are starting to build hardware that does not just run artificial intelligence, it behaves like a primitive form of it. Instead of long chains of conventional transistors, researchers are ...
Science Daily

Scientists built a transistor that could leave silicon in the dust

Shrinking silicon transistors have reached their physical limits, but a team from the University of Tokyo is rewriting the rules. They've created a cutting-edge transistor using gallium-doped indium ...
PC Gamer

Electronics researchers have developed a new way to stack transistors in a die, to keep Moore's law alive for as long as possible

It's the semiconductor version of one potato, two potato. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For 60 years, Gordon Moore's ...
EDN

Transistors slim down to test new materials for chip-making processes

Researchers at the IMEC research institute in Belgium are developing a transistor with a gate width of 22nm (0.022µm) and a gate thickness of 0.5nm to test out new materials for future commercial chip ...
Electronic Design

Test Setup Checks Transistors’ hFEs When Tight Control Is Important

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics. The spread of h FE values in a batch of transistors may be wide enough to cause unreliable performance during mass production of a ...