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Science history: Invention of the transistor ushers in the computing era — Oct. 3, 1950

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the ...
SpaceNews

Testing, Radiation Testing: Northwestern Transistors On Space Station

EVANSTON, Ill. — Transistors based on a new kind of material created by Northwestern University researchers have been lifted into outer space on the space shuttle Endeavour and attached to the outside ...
Purdue University

Purdue engineers create model for testing transistor reliability

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – 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 ...
EDN

Test tube transistor devised via molecular lithography

SAN FRANCISCO &#151 Researchers from the Israel Institute of Technology have developed what the university claims is a “transistor in a test tube”, built via sequence-specific molecular lithography.
Physics World

Bipolar transistors go organic

Organic bipolar transistors can also handle demanding data processing and transmission tasks on flexible electronic elements - for example here, for electrocardiogram ...
EDN

Transistors slim down to test new materials for chip-making processes

Researchers at the IMEC research institute in Belgium are developing a transistor with a gate width of 22nm (0.022µm) and a gate thickness of 0.5nm to test out new materials for future commercial chip ...
Electronic Design

Test Setup Checks Transistors’ hFEs When Tight Control Is Important

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics. The spread of h FE values in a batch of transistors may be wide enough to cause unreliable performance during mass production of a ...
Rolling Stone

‘Sisters With Transistors’: A Brief History of Electronic Music’s Unsung Pioneers

Electronic music — or, as we think of it today, most popular music — is so taken for granted that it’s easy to forget its original pioneers were iconoclasts of their time. Lisa Rovner’s new ...
Physics World

Organic transistors act as sensors

Researchers in the US have developed a new type of organic molecular transistor that can sense and respond to its chemical environment. The device, made by Colin Nuckolls at Columbia University and ...
PBS

How to Produce Transistors

Bell Labs gave its scientists the freedom to pursue basic research -- if they hadn't, the transistor would never have been invented. But the company's main goal was still to put inventions like this ...
Electronic Design

System-level test contends with billions of untested transistors

Why might you need semiconductor system-level test (SLT)? As Karthik Ranganathan, director for semiconductor solutions at Astronics Test Systems, points out, if you test a 22-nm, ...
Science Daily

Transistor-integrated cooling for a more powerful chip

Researchers have created a single chip that combines a transistor and micro-fluidic cooling system. Their research should help save energy and further shrink the size of electronic components.