The first announcement of the invention of the transistor met with almost no fanfare. The integrated circuit was originally thought to be useful only in military applications. The microprocessor's ...

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 ...

The team led by Associate Professor Mario Lanza from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the College of Design and Engineering at the National University of Singapore, has just ...

But the concepts he developed with his design created a new class of transistors called junction transistors, some of which are still used today in specialized applications.

The race beyond silicon is already underway. As these emerging semiconductor materials become more viable, they will enable ...

“This breakthrough represents a major step toward the next generation of transistor technologies that can sustain the rapid progress of computing and artificial intelligence applications,” said ...

For example, the simplest “electronic switch” model completely ignores the application of a transistor as a linear amplifier and cannot be used to explain important transistor parameters such ...

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss chip scaling, transistors, new architectures ... vice president of marketing and applications at KLA; and Aki Fujimura, CEO of D2S. What follows are ...

Examples like Intel's Loihi chips tend to get competitive performance out of far lower clock speeds and energy use, but they ...

Unlike conventional transistors that rely on inorganic semiconductors like silicon, OFETs leverage the unique properties of organic materials to enable novel applications in flexible, printable, and ...

In order to develop the necessary technology, the project Magellan—High Efficiency mm-Wave GaN Transistor High Power Amplifier for GEO and LEO Active Antenna Application—was launched in 2024.