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What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

Transistors are tiny electronic components that act as switches and amplifiers, and they dwell at the heart of modern technology. In simple terms, a transistor can turn a flow of electricity on or off ...
PBS

Lesson 3

In this lesson, students search for transistor-based devices at school. They use the results of their search to explain the significance of the transistor in their lives. A transistor is a tiny device ...
EDN

Unusual 2N3904 transistor circuit

A Planet Analog article, “ 2N3904: Why use a 60-year-old transistor? ” by Bill Schweber, inspired some interest in this old ...
Physics World

Nanocrystal inks used to build flexible transistors

Flexible prints: a nanocrystal-ink-printed transistor on a flexible backing. (Courtesy: University of Pennsylvania/C Kagan et al.) A high-quality, flexible transistor, made entirely from colloidal ...
Nanowerk

Engineers develop a magnetic transistor for more energy-efficient electronics

MIT researchers have now replaced silicon with a magnetic semiconductor, creating a magnetic transistor that could enable ...
Science Daily

Sexually Transmitted Infections: Transistors Used To Detect Fungus Candida Albicans

Scientists have developed a biosensor that makes it possible to detect small quantities of the fungus Candida albicans, the cause of common sexually-transmitted infections, within just an hour. The ...
New Atlas

Stanford scientists use DNA to assemble graphene transistors

A team of Stanford researchers has found a way to grow graphene nanoribbons using strands of DNA. This important development could be the key to large-scale production of graphene-based transistors ...
Forbes

IBM Goes Vertical To Scale Transistors

At the December 2021 IEDM conference (a conference for people who design advanced semiconductors), IBM announced it was turning transistors on their heads to keep Moore’s Law scaling alive. The new ...
Science Daily

Soft Lithography Used To Fabricate Transistors On Curved Substrates

"Thin-film transistor arrays deposited on spherically curved substrates could be used in optical detectors to take pictures over a very wide field of view," said John Abelson, a UI professor of ...
Hackaday

It’s Not Easy Counting Transistors In The 8086 Processor

For any given processor it’s generally easy to find a statistic on the number of transistors used to construct it, with the famous Intel 8086 CPU generally said to contain 29,000 transistors. This is ...
ExtremeTech

What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

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