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Researchers just crammed more computing into the same chip space by stacking silicon circuits in multiple layers — a vertical stack that squeezes whole generations …

For decades, chipmakers squeezed more transistors onto processors by shrinking them sideways. That playbook is running out of ...
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Phosphonate groups lift organic transistor performance by balancing ions and charge flow

By electrochemically introducing phosphonate ester groups into conductive polymer films, researchers at Science Tokyo have ...

HUAWEI Presents the Tau Scaling Law, Enabling Breakthroughs in Transistor Density and System Performance

On Monday, at the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) in Shanghai, He Tingbo, President of HUAWEI's Semiconductor Business Department, presented the Tau (τ) Scaling Law, ...
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Lesson 3

In this lesson, students search for transistor-based devices at school. They use the results of their search to explain the significance of the transistor in their lives. A transistor is a tiny device ...

Memory-preserving transistors could bypass the Boltzmann limit

Researchers have created a new theoretical framework that shows how memory-preserving "memtransistors" could overcome the ...
Marketplace

75 years ago, the transistor ignited the fire of modern innovation

The future began 75 years ago this week with the invention of something small that’s considered the most manufactured item in human history. Odds are, you are surrounded by them right now. The ...
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Lesson 4

In this lesson, students build two circuits and explore how transistors function. When Bell Labs introduced the transistor in June of 1948, a spokesman proudly announced "This cylindrical object . . .
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Low-power, flexible radio-frequency transistors break 100 GHz barrier

Over the past decades, electronics engineers worldwide have been trying to develop devices that could enable even faster communications between devices, all while consuming less energy. To meet the ...
Ars Technica

Transistor with a 1nm gate size is the world’s smallest

Conventional silicon-based electronics are rapidly approaching a fundamental barrier. Below about five nanometers, quantum effects make their behavior unpredictable. That’s led to research into ...
PBS

Lesson 4

In this lesson, students build two circuits and explore how transistors function. When Bell Labs introduced the transistor in June of 1948, a spokesman proudly announced "This cylindrical object . . .