Since the early 1990s, transistors — the tiny switches that drive everything from smartphones to supercomputers — have ...

In the beginning, there was the point-contact transistor. This was the very first transistor ever made, built by Walter Brattain with the help of John Bardeen. It was made of two gold foil ...

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Researchers now propose, in Opto-Electronic Science, a photo-driven fin field-effect transistor (photo-FinFET). The design of photo-FinFET takes inspiration from the classical microelectronic ...