Steve Grzadzielewski has more than a million electronics parts lying around his house in West Seattle. But he’s no engineer — Grzadzielewski and his sister Susan make and sell jewelry made out of ...

In the same way that a pillow filled with pebbles is harder to get smooth than one stuffed with sand, chip makers are finding it harder to make transistors behave predictably as they shrink. Here, the ...

Transistors are inevitable parts of Electronic circuits. The success of a circuit design lies in the selection of proper transistor type and calculation of voltage and current flowing through it. A ...

Reducing required board space in space-challenged devices such as cell phones, PDAs, and media players by both reducing parts count and device dimensions, two families of digital transistors integrate ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at RMIT University have engineered a new type of transistor, the building block for all electronics. Instead of sending electrical currents through silicon, these ...

FETs are mono-polar transistors. The current passing from drain to source doesn’t cross a P-N junction, as in a bipolar transistor. Because of this, the parts are resistive when you turn them on with ...

To take chip designs to the next level, IBM and Samsung are researching how to build semiconductor transistors vertically to free up more space on the silicon. The research has led the companies to ...