Nature

A microfluidic transistor for automatic control of liquids

Given the great success of electrical processing systems, a long-standing goal in the field of microfluidics has been the creation of a fully integrated, automatic liquid processing system, sometimes ...
Nature

Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistor Circuit Design

Carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNFETs) exploit the exceptional electrical characteristics of single-walled carbon nanotubes to create transistors with adjustable threshold voltages, high ...
Purdue University

New transistor design disguises key computer chip hardware from hackers

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A hacker can reproduce a circuit on a chip by discovering what key transistors are doing in a circuit – but not if the transistor “type” is undetectable. Purdue University ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Applying a Floating Gate Field Effect Transistor To A Logic-in-Memory Application Circuit Design

A technical paper titled “Analysis of Logic-in-Memory Full Adder Circuit With Floating Gate Field Effect Transistor (FGFET)” was published by researchers at Konkuk University, Korea National ...
Nanowerk

Vacuum channel transistor suppresses gate leakage to enter chip circuits

A vacuum channel transistor controls electrons at the cathode to suppress gate leakage, letting it work inside amplifiers and NAND and NOR logic gates. (Nanowerk News) A research team in China has ...
Electronic Design

The Other Power Transistor Aiming to Dominate the Age of SiC

Unpacking the challenges with high-voltage power conversion and how SiC fits in. The pivotal advantages of SiC over traditional silicon in next-gen power converters. Rethinking circuit design for ...
PBS

Lesson 4

In this lesson, students build two circuits and explore how transistors function. When Bell Labs introduced the transistor in June of 1948, a spokesman proudly announced "This cylindrical object . . .
Semiconductor Engineering

Transistor Sizing Approach for OTA Circuits Using a Transformer Architecture

A new technical paper titled “Accelerating OTA Circuit Design: Transistor Sizing Based on a Transformer Model and Precomputed Lookup Tables” was published by University Minnesota and Cadence. “Device ...