Transistors are tiny electronic components that act as switches and amplifiers, and they dwell at the heart of modern technology. In simple terms, a transistor can turn a flow of electricity on or off ...

Semiconductor transistors now switch states in single-digit picoseconds, enabling processors to flip billions of logic gates every second without a single mechanical component. Research on 0.07-micron ...

Nanoscale 3D transistors made from ultrathin semiconductor materials can operate more efficiently than silicon-based devices, leveraging quantum mechanical properties to potentially enable ...

Scientists from the University of Washington have designed custom proteins that can switch between two fully structured conformations. By coupling this molecular motion with a binding event, these ...

Modern communication and sensing technologies rely on complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor devices based on silicon. However, continuing to improve the capabilities of such systems through the ...

Computer engineering, but in particular mobile computer engineering, is all about playing a zero-sum game with yourself. Power and efficiency are constantly undercutting one another, creating ...

If you’ve ever wished you had a faster phone, computer, or internet connection, you’ve encountered the personal experience of hitting a limit of technology. But there might be help on the way. Over ...

Hardly a day goes by without a top-level research group announcing some kind of graphene-related breakthrough, but this one's a biggy: Researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany have ...

In this lesson, students search for transistor-based devices at school. They use the results of their search to explain the significance of the transistor in their lives. A transistor is a tiny device ...

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 . . .

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University (www.case.edu) have developed a SiC NEMS (silicon carbide nanoelectromechanical systems) switch that can withstand extreme conditions that a normal ...

A carbon nanotube transistor turns invisible 940 nm light into both a signal and memory, advancing low-power neuromorphic ...