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The Tiny Switch That Runs Every Computer and Gadget

Nearly every piece of technology you use—from smartphones to computers—relies on one revolutionary component: the transistor.
Engineeringness on MSN

Transistors Explained: Switching and Signal Amplification

This video explains how transistors work as switches and amplifiers in electronic circuits. Transistors control the flow of ...
ExtremeTech

What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

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Nanowerk

World's smallest transistor switches current with a single atom in solid state

(Nanowerk News) At Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), physicist Professor Thomas Schimmel and his team have developed a single-atom transistor, the smallest transistor worldwide. This quantum ...
Science Daily

Smallest transistor switches current with a single atom in solid electrolyte

Researchers have developed a single-atom transistor, the world's smallest. This quantum electronics component switches electrical current by controlled repositioning of a single atom, now also in the ...
Gizmodo

World’s First Single-Electron Transistor Works Like a Teeny, Tiny Etch-A-Sketch

It’s amazing what an electron can do. Researchers, lead by a team from the University of Pittsburgh, have built the world’s first operational single-electron transistor, the SketchSET, which could ...
EDN

The start-up transistor works once!

It’s the mid 1990’s and I am a design engineer for a company that designs and manufactures custom measurement systems and high power electronics. Our customers range from experimental fusion reactor ...
C&EN

Perovskite transistors work longer with an insulator switch-up

Perovskites have received a lot of attention as semiconductor materials for solar cells because they’re efficient, inexpensive, and easy to make. But designing transistors, the fundamental component ...
PBS

Recreating the First Transistor

Kevin Aylesworth is a Senior Program Officer at the National Research Council. Although his job these days revolves around science policy rather than building things in the lab, Aylesworth—an ...
New Atlas

Harvard scientists develop a transistor that learns

In a development that may enable a wholly new approach to artificial intelligence, researchers at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have invented a type of ...
Ars Technica

Anyone care to take a shot at why my transistors don't work?

I'm playing with setting up some simple circuits, but none of my transistors seem to work. My latest attempt at making them do *something* goes as follows: I hooked up a 180 ohm resistor to the ...