Transistor

Manufacturing

'Self-assembling' electronics: A wild new manufacturing process

A remarkable proof-of-concept project has successfully manufactured nanoscale diodes and transistors using a fast, cheap new production technique in which liquid metal is directed to self-assemble into precise 3D structures.

A new tuneable microtransistor can perform AI machine learning tasks at just 1% the energy consumption of current equipment

AI and Humanoids

Ultra-efficient machine learning transistor cuts AI energy use by 99%

AI machine learning uses so much computing power and energy that it's typically done in the cloud. But a new microtransistor, 100X more efficient than the current tech, promises to bring new levels of intelligence to mobile and wearable devices.

Researchers have created a functional wooden transistor

Electronics

First working wooden transistor marks a step toward biodegradable tech

Wood isn’t usually very good at conducting electricity, but now scientists have created the first functional wooden transistor. It’s not the best, and it requires some processing, but it does work and could help make for biodegradable electronics.

The saltwater in the new circuit concept is fanned out through a custom nozzle, then an ultra-fast laser zaps it to change its conductive state

Electronics

Water-based circuit concept switches much faster than semiconductors

Water is usually something you’d want to keep away from electronic circuits, but engineers in Germany have now developed a new concept for water-based switches that are much faster than current semiconductor materials.

IBM has unveiled the world's first 2-nm chips

Computing

IBM's new 2-nm chips have transistors smaller than a strand of DNA

Highlighting the march of technology, IBM has unveiled new semiconductor chips with the smallest transistors ever made. The new 2- nanometer tech allows the company to cram a staggering 50 billion transistors onto a chip the size of a fingernail.

Engineers test the world's first printable, fully recycle transistor as part of a lactate biosensor

Electronics

World-first printable transistor is fully recyclable with water and sound

Eyeing solutions to our e-waste problem, engineers have developed the world's first fully recyclable printed electronics, demonstrated in a transistor that can be reduced to its original building blocks with the help of baths and sound waves.

Electronics

Ultra-high voltage transistors aim to boost EV range and efficiency

A University at Buffalo team has proposed a new form of power MOSFET transistor that can handle incredibly high voltages with minimal thickness, heralding an efficiency increase in the power electronics of electric vehicles.

Engineers at MIT and the University of Colorado have developed a new fabrication technique to make transistors measuring as tiny as 2.5 nm wide

Electronics

Smallest 3D transistors ever made measure a minuscule 2.5 nanometers

Engineers from MIT and the University of Colorado have developed a new microfabrication technique and used it to produce the smallest 3D transistors ever made, measuring about a third the size of the current leading commercial products.

Wafers of the new 5 nm chips are tested in pods in a New York facility

Computing

IBM's new 5nm architecture crams 30 billion transistors onto fingernail-sized chip

IBM has unveiled its plans to create 5 nm chips. The company is ditching the standard FinFET architecture in favor of a new structure built with a stack of four nanosheets, allowing some 30 billion transistors to be packed onto a chip the size of a fingernail.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison claim to have created the first graphene-based transistor that exceeds the capabilities of the best silicon-based devices available today

Electronics

Carbon nanotube transistors outperform their silicon cousins for the first time

They're not the first transistors created using carbon nanotubes (CNTs), but researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) claim their new carbon nanotube transistors are the first to outperform the best silicon transistors available today.

Scientists at MIPT have developed a new type of power-efficient transistor using bilayered graphene

Electronics

Ultra-low power graphene-based transistor could enable 100 GHz clock speeds

Scientists have designed a graphene-based transistor that works with ultra-low power consumption and which could ultimately be used to increase the clock speed of processors up to a staggering 100 GHz.

Researchers have claimed a breakthrough nanoimprint lithography manufacturing method that creates very high-performance transistors on rolls of flexible common plastic

Electronics

High performance transistors created on flexible plastic sheets

A breakthrough manufacturing method, using a technique known as nanoimprint lithography, has been devised that creates high-performance transistors with wireless capabilities on rolls of common, flexible plastic.