The transistor laser, invented by scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been full of surprises. Researchers recently coaxed the device to reveal fundamental properties of ...

A new technical paper titled “Cross-Shape Reconfigurable Field Effect Transistor for Flexible Signal Routing” was published by researchers at NaMLab gGmbH, École Centrale de Lyon, and TU Dresden. “A ...

A bilayer organic transistor with off-on-off current output that can be used to make compact and efficient artificial spiking neurons. The field of wearable/implantable healthcare technology continues ...

Photocouplers optically links, via transparent isolating material, a light emitter and a photodetector. Used as an interface between circuits with different ground potentials, photocouplers replace ...

Downscaling of electronic devices, such as transistors, has reached a plateau, posing challenges for semiconductor fabrication. However, a research team led by materials scientists recently discovered ...

Three years ago, I wrote a blog entitled “Linking Virtual Wafer Fabrication Modeling with Device-level TCAD Simulation,” in which I described the seamless connection between the SEMulator3D virtual ...

For the first time, researchers at TU Wien have successfully manufactured a silicon-germanium (SiGe) transistor using an alternative approach that will not only allow for smaller dimensions in the ...

TSMC’s 3-nm fabrication nodes mark the final generation of FinFET-based manufacturing processes as the foundry’s 2-nm process nodes will incorporate nanosheets, also known as gate-all-around (GAA) ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Advances in semiconductor technology have reached a critical turning point. Silicon-based transistor technology, central to electronics, faces increasing limitations due to the ...