Morning Overview on MSN

Engineers at Illinois just stacked silicon transistors three layers deep — 625 per layer, matching standard chip performance and finally giving Moore’s Law a new path for…

For decades, chipmakers kept Moore’s Law alive by shrinking transistors sideways, etching ever-finer features into flat slabs ...
Nanowerk

Vacuum channel transistor suppresses gate leakage to enter chip circuits

A vacuum channel transistor controls electrons at the cathode to suppress gate leakage, letting it work inside amplifiers and ...
Nanowerk

World's smallest transistor switches current with a single atom in solid state

(Nanowerk News) At Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), physicist Professor Thomas Schimmel and his team have developed a single-atom transistor, the smallest transistor worldwide. This quantum ...
IEEE Spectrum on MSN

Junctionless transistors show a new path to 3D chips

Roll-on nanoscale membranes make circuits that stretch across 3 layers of silicon ...
Tech Xplore on MSN

Low-power, flexible radio-frequency transistors break 100 GHz barrier

Over the past decades, electronics engineers worldwide have been trying to develop devices that could enable even faster communications between devices, all while consuming less energy. To meet the ...
PBS

Lesson 3

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 ...