The transistor is the fundamental component of most analog and digital circuits. A transistor consists of a piece semiconducting crystal (usually silicon, but sometimes germanium or gallium arsenide) with which impurities such as antimony, bismuth,...

A transistor, broadly speaking, is a solid-state switch that allows a small signal to control a large signal, such as a current flow. The first transistor was invented by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley in 1945. They were awarded...

Since World War II, no invention has made a larger impact on the communications field than the transistor, which replaced old-fashioned vacuum tubes in electronic equipment. The transistor revolutionized electronic technology and created a billion...

Transistors are used in almost every electronic device now made. A transistor is an electrically controlled resistor that has three terminals: two for the end-to-end flow of electrical current and one for the electrical signal that controls its...

A transistor is a semiconductor device, commonly used as an amplifier or an electrically controlled switch. The transistor is the fundamental building block of the circuitry in computers, cellular phones, and all other modern electronic devices. Because...

Stephen Reucroft and John Swain teach physics at Northeastern University. For the first time, transistors made entirely from plastic have been integrated with plastic light-emitting diodes. Henning Sirringhaus and colleagues at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England, have built what is being touted as...

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Intel Corp. has built a new chip packed with a record 2 billion transistors, more than doubling the processing power of a line of its chips for supercomputers, the company said.The Santa Clara-based company plans to present more information on its latest Itanium processor and...

Sixty years after transistors were invented and nearly five decades since they were first integrated into silicon chips, the tiny on-off switches dubbed the "nerve cells" of the information age are starting to show their age.The devices — whose miniaturization over time set in motion...