Electronic Design

Connecting Transistors— and Measuring Their Performance

Transistors are a dime a dozen—or maybe a dime a billion. When it comes to designing a state-of-the-art mobile device or a high-performance server, it’s how you put the transistors together that ...
EDN

Transistors slim down to test new materials for chip-making processes

Researchers at the IMEC research institute in Belgium are developing a transistor with a gate width of 22nm (0.022µm) and a gate thickness of 0.5nm to test out new materials for future commercial chip ...
Ars Technica

Help me fix my amplifier- it has a blown output transistor, how do I tell which one it is?

There appears to be 16 large transisitors which were mounted to the heatsink of this amplifier. It is a Planet Audio 4 channel car audio amp. From some quick Google searching, it looks like I should ...
Electronic Design

Tiny Compound Transistor Could Challenge Silicon's Dominance

December 10, 2012. Silicon’s crown is under threat: The semiconductor’s days as the king of microchips for computers and smart devices could be numbered, thanks to the development of the smallest ...