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

This video explains what transistors are and how they function as electronic switches and amplifiers. As a core component of ...

There was no doubt about it, point-contact transistors were fidgety. The transistors being made by Bell just didn't work the same way twice, and on top of that, they were noisy. While one lab at Bell ...

Transistors, the building blocks of modern electronics, are typically made of silicon. Because it's a semiconductor, this material can control the flow of electricity in a circuit. But silicon has ...

MIT engineers built a magnetic transistor from chromium sulfur bromide, promising smaller, faster electronics with built-in memory.

The smaller electronic components become, the more complex their manufacture becomes. This has been a major problem for the ...

A self-sensing and heating transistor thermostat for a 16-bit DAC voltage reference to stabilize its temperature.

At Semicon West, Applied Materials unveiled three semiconductor manufacturing systems that it said targeted specific ...

A Planet Analog article, “ 2N3904: Why use a 60-year-old transistor? ” by Bill Schweber, inspired some interest in this old ...

A new magnetic transistor switches current ten times more strongly than silicon chips while operating at lower energy, and also integrates memory.