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 ...

The invention of the transistor in December 1947 is one of ... “This is one of the first, and perhaps most dramatic, examples ...

(The vacuum tube-powered ENIAC, for example, reportedly caused brownouts in Philadelphia whenever it was turned on.) Transistors also flipped on instantaneously, compared to sluggish vacuum tubes ...

We all know, at least intellectually, that our computers are all built with lots of tiny transistors. But beyond that it’s a little hard to describe. They’re printed on a silicon wafer somehow ...

Furthermore, non-planar designs such as tri-gate transistors are being developed to mitigate problems arising, for example, from short-channel effects. Combined, these innovations and strategies ...

The idea of an optical transistor — and the associated optical logic circuits that may follow — conjures images of light controlling light in some sparkling, transparent computer. This dream ...

This requires innovations in capacitors, access transistors, and bit cell architectures. Examples of such innovations are high-aspect ratio pillar capacitors, the move from saddle-shaped (FinFET-based ...