There’s a great reason 3D printers are made with things like extruded aluminum rails and other commodity, off-the-shelf parts ...

C-3PO is one of the more famous movie robots out there. However, we don’t see a lot of replicas built, perhaps because in ...

The change in charge carrier density in semiconductor materials influences the properties of electromagnetic radiation in the terahertz frequency range. A research group from the Australian Terahertz ...

A team of engineers has created a breakthrough memory device that keeps working at temperatures hotter than molten lava, shattering one of electronics’ biggest limits. Built from an unusual stack of ...

A new technical paper, “Device/circuit simulations of silicon spin qubits based on a gate-all-around transistor,” was published by Teikyo University and RIKEN. “We theoretically investigated the ...

For nearly two decades, two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have been studied as a complement or possible successor to silicon transistors, promising smaller, faster and more energy-efficient ...

Before transistors and microchips, engineers had limited options for building computing machines. Light bulbs, known as vacuum tubes, were the only components fast and reliable enough to perform ...

The ability to make a very miniature on/off switch changed the world. These tiny switches, known as transistors, make up the basis of all modern computing—they drive your cell phones, your bank ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vertical Semiconductor (Vertical), a semiconductor company spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), today announced $11 million in seed funding led by ...

A Planet Analog article, “2N3904: Why use a 60-year-old transistor?” by Bill Schweber, inspired some interest in this old transistor and how it’s commonly used, and if any uncommon uses might exist.