The first transistor, invented in 1947, was the point-contact transistor. William Shockley improved on this design with his junction transistor, a three-layer sandwich of different types of ...

While one lab at Bell was trying to improve those first type-A transistors, William Shockley was working on a whole different design that would eventually get rid of these problems. Early in 1948 ...

In addition, the researchers hoped to gain insight into what material, architecture and design is optimal for these ...

One complete design step is eliminated ... the company reports. Fairchild uses npn transistors in DCTL configuration [for 1963’s CMOS chips by Fairchild, click here]. Made by diffusing the ...

While some of these examples might seem like obvious places to look, scientists are peering into more unconventional locations for this transistor design which is both inspired by and made out of ...

Unlike conventional transistors that rely on inorganic semiconductors like silicon, OFETs leverage the unique properties of organic materials to enable novel applications in flexible, printable, and ...

As a result of their underlying design, the MOSFETs fabricated by the researchers have a high ON current and can also be switched ON and OFF easily. The channel in the transistors is made of ...

We do not want signals reflected back into the output to behave as if they were input signals, as this makes system design very difficult. Transistors provide this isolation, but the microscopic ...

A type of 3D FinFET transistor from Intel introduced in 2011 with its Ivy Bridge microarchitecture. The Tri-Gate design is considered 3D because the gate wraps around a raised source-to-drain ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers have developed a new framework to create scalable 3D transistors using 2D semiconductors, ...

Also called a "bipolar junction transistor" (BJT), it is one of two major transistor categories; the other is "field-effect transistor" (FET). Although the first transistor was bipolar and the ...