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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

eTV Reruns: How Enhancement-Mode Gallium-Nitride Transistors (eGAN FETs) Work

EngineeringTV was a groupwide YouTube channel that included Electronic Design. We now have our latest videos on the Electronic Design YouTube channel, but here we highlight some great videos that ...
Science Daily

Nanoscale transistors could enable more efficient electronics

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

UChicago scientists create novel, ultrathin material to make transistors

The ability to make a very miniature on/off switch changed the world. These tiny switches, known as transistors, make up the basis of all modern computing—they drive your cell phones, your bank ...

MIT electronics researchers develop a new way to fabricate transistors on the backend of finished dies, to keep pushing the limit of chip densities ever higher

Traditional CMOS chips are fabricated by applying and then etching repeated layers of different materials, applied to a wafer of ultra-pure silicon. The bottom-most layer, also known as the front end ...
ExtremeTech

What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

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