NextBigFuture

BREAKTHROUGH CMOS N-Type Diamond Transistors

Diamond CMOS needs symmetrical doping control like we have for semiconductor silicon and diamond n-MOS is needed. The n-channel diamond MOSFETs are demonstrated. This work will enable the development ...
NextBigFuture

SemiQon Cryogenic Transistor Breakthrough for 1,000X Less Heat and Uses 99.9% Less Power

Finnish company Semiqon has developed a transistor that operates with virtually zero heat dissipation. They have made silicon-based quantum processors to make future quantum computers more affordable, ...
Nature

A novel observation of negative differential resistance in a standard CMOS transistor and its application to a compact frequency doubler

Negative differential resistance (NDR)—in which current decreases with increasing voltage—represents nonlinear behavior in nanoscale devices, offering unique opportunities to probe carrier dynamics ...
Nature

Synaptic and neural behaviours in a standard silicon transistor

Fig. 2: Quasi-stationary I–V characteristics of a floating-bulk n-channel 180-nm MOSFET showing neuro-synaptic capabilities. In the history of microelectronics, neural and synaptic behaviours based on ...
Hackaday

New Bismuth Transistor Runs 40% Faster And Uses 10% Less Power

Recently in material science news from China we hear that [Hailin Peng] and his team at Peking University just made the world’s fastest transistor and it’s not made of silicon. Before we tell you ...
Electronic Design

Dirt Cheap ASIC Design for Dummies (Part 3): NMOS, PMOS Silicon Design Using a Web Browser

Quickly learn what the difference is between PMOS and NMOS transistors in their structure and operation, and how CMOS works with the two in combination. Siliwiz, a free, browser-based, ASIC layout ...
EurekAlert!

Scientists smash record in stacking semiconductor transistors for large-area electronics

The six stacks of semiconductors for hybrid complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) microchips advances miniaturization and topples the previous record of two stack King Abdullah University of ...
Digi Times

North American startup Zinite pursues the real 3D chip with thin-film transistor innovation

Zinite is seeking to shake up the semiconductor industry through innovations in transistor architecture to achieve more chip performance density. Founded by Gem Shoute, Douglas Barlage, and Kenneth ...
Live Science

1st-of-its-kind cryogenic transistor is 1,000 times more efficient and could lead to much more powerful quantum computers

A new type of transistor can dissipate almost zero heat — slashing energy usage in future quantum computers by up to 1,000 times and paving the way for massively scaled-up machines. The engineers who ...
MSN on MSN

A modern chip switches billions of transistors a second with no moving parts

Semiconductor transistors now switch states in single-digit picoseconds, enabling processors to flip billions of logic gates ...
Semiconductor Engineering

The History Of CMOS

Since CMOS has been around for about 50 years, a comprehensive history would be a book. This blog focuses on what I consider the major transitions. Before CMOS, there was NMOS (also PMOS, but I have ...
ExtremeTech

What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

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