Duke engineers show how a common device architecture used to test 2D transistors overstates their performance prospects in real-world devices.

After dominating the electronics industry for decades, conventional silicon-based transistors are gradually approaching their limits, which is preventing engineers from further reducing their size ...

Researchers at IBM's New York research centre have built a complete logic inverter on a single molecule, paving the way for more complex, miniature logic gates. Building on research into using carbon ...

A group of Korean researchers have recently succeeded in developing new p-type semiconductor materials and thin-film transistors that will lead the innovation of the semiconductor industry. These new ...

Advances in materials and architecture could lead to silicon-free chip manufacturing thanks to a new type of transistor.

A high-performance, low-cost transistor technology for microprocessor and system-on-chip (SoC) devices at the 45-nm node and beyond can be implemented without making major changes to current ...

A transdisciplinary Northwestern University research team has developed a revolutionary transistor that is expected be ideal for lightweight, flexible, high-performance bioelectronics. The ...

At the Forschungszentrum Jülich, a new kind of transistor from germanium–tin alloy has been fabricated by scientists. The alloy comes with numerous benefits over traditional switching elements. The ...