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 ...
ExtremeTech

Researchers create CMOS-compatible, 30nm programmable graphene transistor

Electronic engineers at Japan's GNC and AIST research centers have successfully created graphene transistors that are constructed and operated in a way that redefines 50 years of transistor ...
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 ...
Phys.org

Researchers demonstrate scaling of aligned carbon nanotube transistors to below sub-10 nm nodes

Carbon nanotubes, large cylindrical molecules composed of hybridized carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal structure, recently attracted significant attention among electronics engineers. Due to their ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Transistors Reach Tipping Point At 3nm

The semiconductor industry is making its first major change in a new transistor type in more than a decade, moving toward a next-generation structure called gate-all-around (GAA) FETs. Although GAA ...
EDN

A new platform for thermally stable DRAM peripheral transistors

Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips contain many other transistors besides the access transistor to enable full operation of the DRAM memory. These peripheral transistors must meet stringent ...