Send enough electrons, and some will appear. Quantum tunneling is not a good thing when you’re trying to shrink transistors ever so smaller. Transistors need barriers. When electrons start ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a revolutionary alternative—three-dimensional transistors leveraging quantum tunneling. These advanced devices promise to break silicon's physical barriers and ...

WEEK 7: Metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET):basic device characteristics, nonuniform doping and buried-channel devices, short-channel effects, MOSFET structures, nonvolatile ...

In addition, the vertical geometry of FinFETs made it possible for engineers to pack more transistors in a chip, advancing Moore's Law even further. The result was a chip with better performance, ...

In a transistor that small, the electron would act more like a wave than a single particle. As a wave it would smear out in space, and could even tunnel its way through the transistor without ...

Schematic of a Single Electron Transistor (SET). Because of the small size of the island or quantum dot (QD) in the middle of the two tunnel junctions the capacitance became very high and we see ...

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 ...