For our 2025 Component Abuse Challenge there have been a set of entries which merely use a component for a purpose it wasn’t quite intended, and another which push misuse of a part into ...

For the Component Abuse Challenge our hacker [Tim Williams] observes that N-P-N reads the same way forwards and backwards, so ...

This video explains how transistors work as switches and amplifiers in electronic circuits. Transistors control the flow of ...

The new fabrication technique for all-2D transistors on flexible substrates offers a sustainable alternative, boosting ...

The six stacks of semiconductors for hybrid complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) microchips advances miniaturization and topples the previous record of two stack King Abdullah University of ...

Infineon Technologies AG unveils its first gallium nitride (GaN) transistor family qualified to the Automotive Electronics Council (AEC) standard for automotive applications. The new CoolGaN ...

Vertical Semiconductor Inc. is hoping to crack the power delivery bottleneck in artificial intelligence data centers after closing on an $11 million seed funding round today. The round was led by ...

In 1957, Fairchild Semiconductor became the third company in Silicon Valley. Of course it wasn't called Silicon Valley then, since the whole silicon industry was just starting to evolve. Fairchild was ...

Two tuners were developed for this receiver. The more sensitive one uses tetrode transistors in the RF amplifier, mixer and oscillator. Its disadvantages lie in a much higher cost and a 12 to 14 db ...

Founded in 1955, Shockley Semiconductor was the brainchild of William Shockley. When he was ready to leave Bell Labs, he decided to form a company to build transistors. Funded by Beckman Instruments, ...

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs), cylindrical nanostructures made of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, have proved to be promising for the fabrication of various electronic devices. In fact, these ...