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Science history: Invention of the transistor ushers in the computing era — Oct. 3, 1950

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the ...
Nanowerk

Engineers develop a magnetic transistor for more energy-efficient electronics

MIT researchers have now replaced silicon with a magnetic semiconductor, creating a magnetic transistor that could enable ...
Nature

Analog Circuit Design Using MOS Transistors

Analog circuit design using MOS transistors represents a dynamic and rapidly evolving field that is integral to modern electronics. Exploiting the inherent advantages of MOS technology—such as ...
EDN

RF Amplifier Design Using ISL73xxxRH Transistor Array

This application note presents the ISL73096RH/ISL73127RH/ISL73128RH transistor arrays and focuses on designing RF amplifiers employing these featured transistor ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Transistor Sizing Approach for OTA Circuits Using a Transformer Architecture

A new technical paper titled “Accelerating OTA Circuit Design: Transistor Sizing Based on a Transformer Model and Precomputed Lookup Tables” was published by University Minnesota and Cadence. “Device ...
EDN

Basic Characteristics and Application Circuit Design of Transistor Couplers

Photocouplers optically links, via transparent isolating material, a light emitter and a photodetector. Used as an interface between circuits with different ground potentials, photocouplers replace ...
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Boffins go ballistic over next-gen transistor design

'Radical' computing chip bounces electrons around. Computer designers at the US University of Rochester are going ballistic over a "radical" transistor design which they claim will revolutionise ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Applying a Floating Gate Field Effect Transistor To A Logic-in-Memory Application Circuit Design

A technical paper titled “Analysis of Logic-in-Memory Full Adder Circuit With Floating Gate Field Effect Transistor (FGFET)” was published by researchers at Konkuk University, Korea National ...
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What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

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 ...
Electronic Design

Transistor-Jammed Chips Rely On Process Progress

More and more transistors per chip. There's simply no way around it as long as there's a need to create faster and smaller systems that consume less power. This will provide more gates for ASICs and ...