CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new type of transistor structure, invented by scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has broken the 600 gigahertz speed barrier. The goal of a terahertz ...

Researchers create transistors combining silicon with biological silk, using common microprocessor manufacturing methods. The silk protein can be easily modified with other chemical and biological ...

Your phone may have more than 15 billion tiny transistors packed into its microprocessor chips. The transistors are made of silicon, metals like gold and copper, and insulators that together take an ...

Why silk is being used for bio-compatible transistors. How the silk is transformed to develop the transistor function. The two types of operation provided by the silk-based transistor. Silicon and ...

US researchers have used modified vertical structures and extreme cooling to push silicon germanium (SiGe) bipolar transistor operation through 500GHz. “The motivation was to use bandgap engineering ...

In the field of semiconductor fabrication, high-k dielectrics represent a class of materials with a dielectric constant significantly higher than traditional silicon dioxide. These materials are ...