Nanowerk

Scientists create novel, ultrathin material to make transistors

Researchers built a four-atom-thick transistor combining an atomically thin semiconductor and molecular crystal. It uses ...
Tech Xplore on MSN

Scientists find that a ‘design limitation’ in transistors actually improves performance

What many engineers once saw as a flaw in organic electronics could actually make these devices more stable and reliable, ...

The Field Effect Transistor Centennial And My Final IEEE Event

I attended an AI conference in Seattle and participated in the 2025 IEDM and its celebration of the 100th anniversary of the ...

All-optical modulation in silicon achieved via an electron avalanche process

Over the past decades, engineers have introduced numerous technologies that rely on light and its underlying characteristics.
Morning Overview on MSN

Single crystal achieves on-demand topological switching

Topological materials promise electronics that are faster, cooler, and far more robust, but until now they have mostly ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Smaller Geometries, Bigger Demands: The Role Of OCD In GAA Logic And Vertical Gate DRAM Process Control

AI workloads are pushing the boundaries of compute, memory, and interconnect architectures, and to meet these goals, ...

Brain Uses Molecular Timers to Decide What We Remember

New research shows that long-term memory is not stored by a single molecular switch, but by a sequence of timed genetic programs unfolding across different brain regions.
Electronic Design

Keeping Pace with AI: Why Gate-All-Around Transistors are the Answer

As the industry advances into the angstrom era, gate-all-around architectures combined with atomic-scale materials ...

MIT electronics researchers develop a new way to fabricate transistors on the backend of finished dies, to keep pushing the limit of chip densities ever higher

Traditional CMOS chips are fabricated by applying and then etching repeated layers of different materials, applied to a wafer ...

Quantum Tech Hits Its “Transistor Moment,” Scientists Say

A new article examines the history of computing to help outline the direction of quantum research. It reports that quantum ...

Scientists Watch Spins Switch in 140 Trillionths of a Second

Researchers have managed to visualize two distinct mechanisms in which magnetism can switch within antiferromagnetic ...