Home > Science What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work? Join us for a deep dive into the tiny technology that powers the world.

How Do Transistors Work? At its core, a transistor is an electronic gatekeeper. It controls the flow of electric current through a semiconductor material.

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage ...

This FAQ examines how stray inductances in components and PCB layouts create voltage overshoots, electromagnetic interference ...

While many research efforts are underway to develop active devices that can function in the challenging terahertz spectrum, ...

Finnish company Semiqon has developed a transistor that operates with virtually zero heat dissipation. They have made silicon ...

Nvidia's research lab developed the technology that took the company from a video game GPU startup to a $4 trillion-dollar company.

This miniaturization is thanks mostly to the switch from silicon transistors to gallium nitride (GaN), which allows manufacturers to produce smaller units that are more robust. Adding more ports is ...

The students developed a devise they say will reduce the workload of health workers because several health units are ...

In the 1990s, Intel didn’t just make the lion’s share of the world’s processors. It determined what a PC was, and even how it ...

An anti-log amplifier design with a temperature-compensation network built around a nearly linear PTC thermistor.

US export controls keep China behind in the chip war, yet advanced packaging and post–Moore’s Law innovations offer new paths ...