AZoNano

Direct-Write Fabrication of 1D Transistors and Non-CMOS Logic Gates: A Stimulus for Nanoelectronics to Mature

The transistor, an invention that heralded a new era in electronics, is the key component of practically all integrated circuits (ICs) and microprocessors. The point-contact transistor that Walter H.
Semiconductor Engineering

Vertically stacked, low-voltage organic ternary logic circuits including nonvolatile floating-gate memory transistors

Researchers demonstrate “a low-voltage organic ternary logic circuit, in which the organic HTR was vertically integrated with the organic nonvolatile flash memory.” “Multi-valued logic (MVL) circuits ...
EDN

Nanoscale transistor circuits move into logic

Nanotechnology continues its rapid evolution as two more research groups report on the assembly of individual molecules and molecular scale structures into functional logic circuits. Researchers from ...
EurekAlert!

Organic electronics possibly soon to enter the GHz-regime

Physicists of the Technische Universität Dresden introduce the first implementation of a complementary vertical organic transistor technology, which is able to operate at low voltage, with adjustable ...
Electronic Design

How SiC Transistors Can Improve Power-Conversion Efficiency

Properties of wide-bandgap materials, with a focus on SiC. How a bridgeless totem-pole topology can help cut losses. A breakdown of the half-bridge inverter topology The efficiency of power-conversion ...
EDN

Discretion Is the Better Part: Choosing Transistors

Editor's note: The column “Rarely Asked Questions: Strange but true stories from the call logs of Analog Devices” will be published monthly in Planet Analog for your learning enjoyment. Here is the ...
Nanowerk

MXene with its X factor may help downscaling 2D transistors

(Nanowerk Spotlight) On December 26, 1947, the two physicists Walter Brattain and John Bardeen, officially demonstrated the first point-contact transistor at Bell Labs. Later, in January 1948, William ...