Researchers at Purdue University have created a "unified model" for predicting the reliability of new designs for silicon transistors – a potential tool that industry could use to save tens of ...

This is precisely the frontier being explored through quantum thermal transistors, devices designed to replicate electronic transistor functionality at the quantum scale, but for heat.

This circuit uses pulsed current to check transistor hFE on an oscilloscope. The circuit creates the biasing conditions specified by the transistor’s manufacturer.

The chip, dubbed the random access nanotube test chip, or RANT, contains a network of silicon wires and switches that form a circuit. Researchers then proceeded to grow carbon nanotubes directly onto ...

We have all had difficulty testing diodes in-circuit. Most DMM’s have a diode Vf function that measures forward drop, but what is the normal voltage drop?

In testing, the film transistors could wrap around a diameter as small as 2.25 millimeters, and when implanted in rats the devices maintained conductivity while flexing with the surrounding tissue.

Foundries and packaging houses are wrestling how to control heat in the testing phase, particularly as devices continue to shrink and as thermally sensitive analog circuits are added into SoCs and ...

The transistors, which used a new kind of gate dielectric material called a self-assembled nanodielectric (SAND), were placed on the space station during a spacewalk March 22.

IBM Research on Tuesday unveiled plans to create a "DNA transistor" that would result in personalized genetic testing for about $100 to $1,000.

As with many inventions, two people had the idea for an integrated circuit at almost the same time. Transistors had become commonplace in everything from radios to phones to computers, and now ...