Altering the very fabric of technophilic society, a multinational team of material scientists have created electric circuits and transistors out of cotton fibers. Two kinds of transistor were created: ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the transistor age and the era of modern computing.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel Corp. said Wednesday that it has redesigned the electronic switches on its chips so that computers can keep getting cheaper and more powerful. The switches, known as transistors ...

Electrical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated the ability to print fully functional and recyclable electronics at ...

Data centers squander vast amounts of electricity, most of it as heat. The physical properties of diamond offer a potential ...

Bioengineers at Stanford University have created the first biological transistor made from genetic materials: DNA and RNA. Dubbed the "transcriptor," this biological transistor is the final component ...

In a 2021 study, scientists at MIT described a new boron nitride material that could be faster and more resilient than your typical computer components. Now a new study from the same MIT lab used that ...

The humble transistor - smaller than a speck of dust — has been made more than any other invention in history, powering ...

The number of transistors on a computer chip doubles about every 18 months. This observation, known as Moore’s law, is a nightmare for semiconductor engineers, who are tasked with building chips that ...

A CPU, or central processing unit, is a vital part of your computer or phone, and is responsible for executing every command ...