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Transistor Houses Two Independent Gates
News Researchers at the company's Texas, laboratory said on Monday that they have developed a dual-gate transistor in which the two gates can act independently, a first according to the company. A transistor is a microscopic on-off switch inside a chip...
[November 11, 2003, 9:30]
Transistor Design For 90 Nm-Generation And Beyond
White Papers This paper, reviews recent trends in MOSFET scaling such as the aggressive scaling of gate length, the decrease in on-current with scaling, and the increased demand for a variety of transistor types for use in a wide range of target products.
[February 29, 2008, 23:00]
Transistor Sizing: How To Control The Speed And Energy Consumption Of A Circuit
White Papers This paper introduces a simple model for calculating transistor sizes of an asynchronous control circuit. The model builds on the theory of Logical Effort and relates transistor sizes to the speed and energy consumption of a circuit.
[August 2, 2005, 0:00]
British Scientists Create Atom-thick Transistor
News British scientists have created what they claim is the world's smallest transistor, measuring one atom in thickness and 10 atoms in width. The researchers, from the University of Manchester, published a paper in the journal Science last week, in...
[April 21, 2008, 14:17]
Intel Terahertz Transistor Breaks Speed Limits
News The terahertz transistor design -- a terahertz is a thousand gigahertz, or one trillion cycles a second -- is an evolution of current designs, using new materials such as zirconium dioxide. Other problems tackled include high capacitance, which...
[November 26, 2001, 9:06]
Tiny Transistor Could Cut Supercomputer Size
News Japan's computer giant NEC said it has developed the world's smallest transistor, in a breakthrough that could make it possible to build a supercomputer the size of a personal computer. However, given that NEC said the transistor has a possible...
[December 10, 2003, 8:55]
Spin Doctors Create Quantum Transistor
News Canadian researchers have announced the laboratory creation of what they are calling a "spintronic transistor". Our device is a prototype showing how a single-spin-based transistor might work. According to a paper published in the American Physical...
[July 8, 2002, 12:48]
IBM Unveils World's Smallest Transistor
News IBM on Monday will unveil what it says is the world's tiniest working transistor. The IBM Research Group will announce the new transistor at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco.
[December 9, 2002, 8:05]
Toshiba Finds 'nothing' Makes A Better Transistor
News Breaking the No Free Lunch rule, Toshiba has announced improved transistor performance through the addition of empty space. The technology, surreally called silicon-on-nothing (SON), will make logic circuits that go faster and use less power purely...
[December 5, 2001, 17:07]
The Transistor Turns 60
News Transistor radios were wildly popular in the 1960s; they were sort of the iPod of their day. This was the very first transistor, invented at Bell Labs in December 1947. Known as a "point contact transistor", it was first manufactured commercially a...
[December 17, 2007, 12:25]
Enhanced CDMA Performance From An InGaP/InGaAsN/GaAs N-p-N Double Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor
White Papers GaAs-based heterojunction bipolar transistor HBT) integrated circuits have developed into a key technology for a variety of applications, particularly as power amplifiers for wireless handsets and high-speed circuits for fiber optic communication...
[July 25, 2004, 0:00]
Beyond The Conventional Transistor
White Papers The carbon nanotube field-effect transistor is examined as an example of the evaluation process required to identify suitable nanotechnologies for such purposes. This paper focuses on approaches to continuing CMOS scaling by introducing new device...
[March 30, 2005, 0:00]
AMD Reveals Futuristic Transistor Designs
News AMD has created two new advanced transistor designs that it says will lead to higher chip performance. The chipmaker's researchers have created and demonstrated a new Fully Depleted Silicon-on-Insulator transistor, the company said on Wednesday.
[April 3, 2003, 7:48]
AMD Unveils Triple-gate Transistor
News Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday unveiled an experimental transistor with three gates, in a continued effort to find ways to increase performance while conserving electricity. The transistor, which the company is discussing at the International...
[September 19, 2003, 11:20]
Intel Unveils Next-gen Transistor Plans
News Intel plans to show off a prototype transistor this week that could help Moore's Law - and the semiconductor industry as a whole - continue to advance in the next decade. The transistor, designed by Intel and QinetiQ, is similar in structure to a...
[December 8, 2005, 10:00]
Intel Puts Tri-Gate Transistor On Fast Track
News Intel says that its Tri-Gate transistor, a futuristic device that will let electricity flow more freely inside chips, is moving closer to reality. The Tri-Gate transistor, one of the tools that may let Intel continue to follow Moore's Law in the...
[June 11, 2003, 7:54]
Full Speed Ahead For IBM Transistor
News IBM on Monday will unveil a new transistor design for wireless chips that promises enough power to build future networks that will change the way people use wireless at work and at home. The new transistor design, based on its silicon germanium, or...
[November 4, 2002, 10:30]
IBM Turns Up The Transistor Heat
News In a move that could pave the way for faster and less power-hungry networking chips, IBM plans to announce Monday that it has developed the world's fastest silicon transistor. The new transistor is capable of operating at 210GHz using just 1...
[June 25, 2001, 10:18]
New Spin On Transistor Heralds Chip Revolution
Talkback Nice Spintronics Article http://p2pnet.net/story/1385
[June 11, 2004, 5:45]
