(Nanowerk News) An international team of researchers from Queen Mary University of London, the University of Oxford, Lancaster University, and the University of Waterloo have developed a new ...

Fast switching: the Hybrid Photonics Labs at Skoltech where the new optical transistor was created. (Courtesy: Skoltech) A new optical transistor has been designed by researchers in Russia, ...

UB researchers are reporting a new, two-dimensional transistor made of graphene and the compound molybdenum disulfide that could help usher in a new era of computing. As described in a paper accepted ...

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 . . .

Consumer devices, from light bulbs to iPods, send information using electrons. Human bodies and all other living things, on the other hand, send signals and perform tasks using ions or protons. In a ...

Engineers are starting to build hardware that does not just run artificial intelligence, it behaves like a primitive form of ...

MUNICH, Germany — Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Bio-chemistry (Martinsried, Germany) have succeeded in coupling a transistor to a single biological cell. The development could lay the ...

At the December 2021 IEDM conference (a conference for people who design advanced semiconductors), IBM announced it was turning transistors on their heads to keep Moore’s Law scaling alive. The new ...