Computers and similar electronic devices have gotten faster and smaller over the decades as computer-chip makers have learned how to shrink individual transistors, the tiny electrical switch... Read more
A new transistor based on organic materials has been developed by scientists at Linköping University. It has the ability to learn, and is equipped with both short-term and long-term memory.... Read more
FAU physicists demonstrate using a laser to control a current in graphene within just one femtosecond Controlling electronic current is essential to modern electronics, as data and signals a... Read more
A new transistor developed by UC Santa Barbara engineers overcomes one of the fundamental limitations of conventional transistors and reduces power dissipation by over 90 percent One of the... Read more
Physicists from the Department of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials of ITMO University have experimentally demonstrated the feasibility of designing an optical analog of a transistor based on... Read more
A team of IBM researchers in Zurich, Switzerland, with support from colleagues in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., has developed a relatively simple, robust and versatile process for growing crystals... Read more
Single molecule technology could finally break Moore’s law and allow gadgets to store huge amounts of data on tiny flash storage cards. Chemists behind the new molecules say the new te... Read more
As tech company LG demonstrated this summer with the unveiling of its 18-inch flexible screen, the next generation of roll-up displays is tantalizingly close. Researchers are now reporting i... Read more
NEW TRANSISTOR ACHIEVES ‘COLOSSAL’ SWITCHABLE RESISTANCE USING QUANTUM MATERIALS AND PHYSICS DEVELOPED IN A FUEL CELL LAB Silicon has few serious competitors as the material of choice in the... Read more
When it comes to electronics, silicon will now have to share the spotlight. In a paper recently published in Nature Communications, researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering des... Read more
LEDs are durable and save energy. Now researchers have found a way to make LED lamps even more compact while supplying more light than commercially available models. The key to success: tran... Read more
One can switch the state of an electron’s orbit 10,000 times faster than you can switch the state of a transistor used in computing today The demand for computing power is constantly rising,... Read more
Teams from Stanford and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln collaborate to make thin, transparent semiconductors that could become the foundation for cheap, high-performance displays. Two uni... Read more
The development is significant because switching devices are at the heart of computing and communications technologies. By relentlessly miniaturizing a pre-World War II computer technology,... Read more
