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A single modern computer chip can pack in tens of billions of transistors, each smaller than a virus

Transistors etched into the latest processor designs now measure just a few nanometers across, placing them well below the ...
SpaceNews

Testing, Radiation Testing: Northwestern Transistors On Space Station

EVANSTON, Ill. — Transistors based on a new kind of material created by Northwestern University researchers have been lifted into outer space on the space shuttle Endeavour and attached to the outside ...
ZDNet

Testing new transistors in space

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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

Most lab testing quietly inflates 2D transistor performance, research reveals

For nearly two decades, two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have been studied as a complement or possible successor to silicon transistors, promising smaller, faster and more energy-efficient ...
Purdue University

Purdue engineers create model for testing transistor reliability

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Researchers at Purdue University have created a "unified model" for predicting the reliability of new designs for silicon transistors – a potential tool that industry could use ...
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 ...
Electronic Design

Test Setup Checks Transistors’ hFEs When Tight Control Is Important

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics. The spread of h FE values in a batch of transistors may be wide enough to cause unreliable performance during mass production of a ...
New Atlas

Ultra-high voltage transistors aim to boost EV range and efficiency

A University at Buffalo team has proposed a new form of power MOSFET transistor that can handle incredibly high voltages with minimal thickness, heralding an efficiency increase in the power ...