Nanowerk2 年
Transistors explained – what they are and what they do
Akin to any electrical switch, a transistor performs three essential functions. Firstly, when switched on, it should allow the maximum amount of current to flow through. Secondly, when turned off, it ...
PBS7 年
Point Contact Transistor
The first transistor was about half an inch high. That's mammoth by today's standards ... because when a bit of current came through one of the gold contacts, another even stronger current ...
EDN16 天
OCTRAM technology achieves low power, high density
Kioxia and Nanya Technology have co-developed a type of 4F2 DRAM known as Oxide-Semiconductor Channel Transistor DRAM (OCTRAM ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN2 个月
MIT unveils ultra-efficient 3D transistors, could surpass silicon technology
However, tunneling transistors often suffer from low current output. This limitation hinders their performance in demanding ...
PBS27 天
Lesson 4
What quality of transistors—high reliability, small current amplification, or instant response—do you feel is the most important for transistors used in computers? in medical equipment such as ...
Phys.org19 天
2D materials boost p-type transistor performance, paving way for future tech
resulting in high ON current in the transistor, while the less effective doping in between the contacts maintains good electrostatic control in the 2D MOSFET device." As a result of their ...
Semiconductor Engineering1 年
Highly Stacked Nanowire FETs To Enhance Drive Current And Transistor Density
A technical paper titled “Fabrication and performance of highly stacked GeSi nanowire field effect transistors” was published by researchers at National Taiwan University.