“Three-terminal thermal analogies to electrical transistors have been proposed for use in thermal amplification, thermal switching, or thermal logic, but have not yet been demonstrated experimentally.

In a significant advancement for semiconductor technology, researchers at UC Santa Barbara have unveiled novel three-dimensional (3D) transistors utilizing two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. Their ...

Intel made an announcement today that will drive its chip development over the next several years. What are 3D transistors and why are they important? Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer ...

Transistors, the building blocks of microprocessors, may have only one place to go in the future according to Intel researchers: up. At a presentation in Japan this week, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based ...

An Anglo-Italian research group is looking for low-temperature superconductor application areas for its Quatrans (Quasiparticle Trapping Transistors or QTs). The group believes that QTs have all the ...

Intel’s 3D transistors are no small feat. Some are calling it a breakthrough that will allow Intel to continue to make chips that adhere to Moore’s Law (i.e. the number of transistors that can be ...

Conventional electronics based on silicon are approaching their limits in terms of performance and scalability. In recent years, engineers have thus been trying to introduce alternative designs that ...

“To improve transistor density and electronic performance, next-generation semiconductor devices are adopting three-dimensional architectures and feature sizes down to the few-nm regime, which require ...

Chip maker Intel has announced a significant breakthrough in the evolution of the transistor, the microscopic building block of the microprocessor. For the first time since the invention of silicon ...

We’ll be honest, we were more excited by Duke University’s announcement that they’d used carbon-based inks to 3D print a transistor than we were by their assertion that it was recyclable. Not that ...

Starting next year, computers will be available with three-dimensional transistors - these will incorporate vertical components, unlike the flat chips that we're used to seeing. This structure will ...