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Forget transistors: an intelligent material computes like a brain

Engineers are starting to build hardware that does not just run artificial intelligence, it behaves like a primitive form of ...
Physics World

Single-electron transistor goes mechanical

Physicists in Germany and the US have made a single-electron transistor that operates using a nanometre-scale vibrating arm. The device was built using a simple two-step process and does not need to ...
EDN

Electronics for Kids: Part 9 – Simple Transistor Experiments

On a physical level, a transistor’s internal functioning is very complex, but, in practice, using it in some simple experiments is quite easy and affordable for everyone. A transistor allows to create ...
PBS

Lesson 1

Bell Laboratories, one of the world’s largest industrial laboratories and now part of Lucent Technologies, was originally the research and development arm of the giant telephone company American ...
TechSpot

MIT's 3D nanoscale transistors use quantum tunneling design to bypass physical limits

Why it matters: Silicon transistors are great, but just like any other object in the physical world, they are held back by a few limitations. The laws of physics put a bottleneck on performance and ...