The transistor is the unsung hero of modern life — powering everything from smartphones to satellites. But how did it begin?

Beyond the power variant, it sometimes seems as though we rarely encounter a discrete transistor these days, such has been the advance of integrated electronics. But they have a rich history, going ...

There was no doubt about it, point-contact transistors were fidgety. The transistors being made by Bell just didn't work the same way twice, and on top of that, they were noisy. While one lab at Bell ...

Engineers are starting to build hardware that does not just run artificial intelligence, it behaves like a primitive form of ...

So What Was the Transistor Good For? Transistors may have been useful to the phone company and to a handful of scientists building computers, but that wasn't enough to build an industry. Companies ...

Intelligent soft switching with AI support promises to reduce switching losses in power transistors by up to 95 per cent.

It used to be a rite of passage to be able to do the math necessary to design various bipolar transistor amplifier ...

Transistor aging and reliability are becoming much more troublesome for design teams at 10nm and below. Concepts like ‘infant mortality’ and ‘bathtub curves’ are not new to semiconductor design, but ...

An attractive direction in next-generation information processing is the development of systems employing particles or quasiparticles other than electrons—ideally with low dissipation—as information ...