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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 ...
Phys.org

Researchers design switch-like proteins inspired by transistors

Scientists from the University of Washington have designed custom proteins that can switch between two fully structured conformations. By coupling this molecular motion with a binding event, these ...
TechSpot

MIT scientists develop transistor with nanosecond switching and billion-cycle durability

In a nutshell: Back in 2021, a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology made waves by creating an entirely new type of ferroelectric material. Now, those same researchers have one-upped ...
ExtremeTech

The missing switch: High-performance monolithic graphene transistors created

Hardly a day goes by without a top-level research group announcing some kind of graphene-related breakthrough, but this one's a biggy: Researchers at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany have ...
Electronic Design

Energy-Efficient CoolMOS Power Transistors Help With Switching Behaviour

Neubiberg, Germany: The 650V CoolMOS C6/E6 series of high-performance power MOSFETs combine the advantages of modern superjunction (SJ) devices with easy control of switching behaviour as well as high ...
Phys.org

Memory-preserving transistors could bypass the Boltzmann limit

Researchers have created a new theoretical framework that shows how memory-preserving "memtransistors" could overcome the intrinsic limits in efficiency faced by conventional semiconductor transistors ...
TechSpot

MIT's 3D nanoscale transistors use quantum tunneling design to bypass physical limits

Why it matters: Silicon transistors are great, but just like any other object in the physical world, they are held back by a few limitations. The laws of physics put a bottleneck on performance and ...