Gaze into the temporal distance and you might spot the end of the age of silicon looming somewhere out there, as a research ...

A team of scientists at Penn State has created the world’s first computer made entirely from materials that are just one atom thick—without using any silicon. This breakthrough marks a big step ...

Penn State researchers have built the world’s first CMOS computer entirely from two-dimensional materials, marking a leap ...

Curious about how transistors remember data and make memory storage possible? Dive into the basics of memory at the ...

An exclusive look inside the closely guarded factory the president wants to become a foundation stone for a US golden age.

China unveils a microscopic transistor that could quietly disrupt the global chip race. Built without silicon, this atom-thin innovation hints at a radical shift in processor design. This complete 360 ...

The sensor is a single electron transistor (SET) placed at the tip of a noncontact atomic force microscope (AFM). This is a general technology to make any nanometer-sized lithography pattern at edges ...

A finished device: Optical microscope image of the transistor (left) and an ultra-scaled vertical nanowire (right). (Courtesy: Y Shao) A new transistor made from semiconducting vertical nanowires of ...

Silicon transistors, which are used to amplify and switch signals, are a critical component in most electronic devices, from smartphones to automobiles. But silicon semiconductor technology is held ...

The discovery was made by Dr. Wilhelm Rindner while he was poking under a microscope with a delicate probe, studying surface defects on a tiny transistor. The transistor was hooked up to a ...

Abstract: This paper examines bipolar transistor noise modelling and noise physics using microscopic noise simulation. Transistor terminal current and voltage noises resulting from velocity ...

A new computing revolution in the works may take us beyond transistors with atomic-scale magnets. Some computer science researchers have promoted quantum computing as the next logical step.