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A tiny vacuum tube that could outrun today’s transistors – no gate leak, no problem

For decades, the speed of transistors has been approaching its physical limit. Now, researchers have built a new type of ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Gate Drive Circuit Without A Speed-Up Capacitor for a GaN Gate Injection Transistor

A technical paper titled “Gate Drive Circuit Suitable for a GaN Gate Injection Transistor” was published by researchers at Nagoya University. “A GaN gate injection transistor (GIT) has great potential ...
TechSpot

Chinese researchers create the world's smallest transistor gate

Why it matters: Moore's Law has been on life support for a while now, but it's not dead yet. Chipmakers are burning the midnight oil to miniaturize transistor designs, and a team of researchers in ...
Phys.org

A step closer to optical computers: Researchers develop an all-optical universal gate

A research team from Skoltech and Bergische Universität Wuppertal in Germany has created a universal NOR logical element (from NOT—a negation operator and OR—a disjunction operator). According to the ...
Nanowerk

Dual-gate vertical transistor enables stable nanoscale 3D chip stacking

Researchers developed a dual-modulated vertical transistor that suppresses leakage at nanoscale channels and supports scalable 3D semiconductor integration. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at the Daegu ...
MSN on MSN

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 ...