(Nanowerk News) The foundation of many, many modern electronic devices – including computers, smart phones, and televisions – is the silicon transistor. However, the shrinking of consumer electronics ...

AF114 germanium transistors and related ones like the AF115 through AF117 were quite popular during the 1960s, but they quickly developed a reputation for failure. This is due to what should have made ...

At the Forschungszentrum Jülich, a new kind of transistor from germanium–tin alloy has been fabricated by scientists. The alloy comes with numerous benefits over traditional switching elements. The ...

Over the past 70 years, the number of transistors on a chip has doubled approximately every two years – according to Moore’s Law, which is still valid today. The circuits have become correspondingly ...

An important breakthrough has been reached in the development of energy-efficient electronic circuits using transistors based on germanium. A team of scientists from the Nanoelectronic Materials ...

There was once a company which achieved the remarkable feat of getting the first junction transistor to market. The company manufactured the device in 1952, the same year as the inventors of the ...

Before this work it was not possible to perform quantum calculations using only transistors. Other elements were needed and this provided a limitation for upscaling. This work shows a single ...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have used metal germanides at the metal-germanium interface, with suitable surface crystal planes, to improve contact resistance and device performance in ...

It might look like something out of Tron, but you’re actually looking at a new type of transistor made out of germanium—which is four times faster than those currently in use. The new transistor, ...

Gordon Moore's visionary prediction, made in 1965, that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit chip would double every two years continues to be the main idea guiding the semiconductor ...

CTC soups up its Dumble/K-style amp-in-a-box drive with some super rare germanium. It's limited edition, on until it's gone, but the original Unobtanium will remain on the menu When you purchase ...

ATLANTA, June 20 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have demonstrated the first silicon-germanium transistor able to operate at frequencies above 500 GHz. Although the record performance was attained at ...