By using a carefully tuned laser pulse, the researchers are able to use fullerene to switch the path of an incoming electron in a predictable way. This switching process can be three to six orders of ...

At the end of the day, a transistor is a simple concept—a controllable switch—that can be built in myriad ways. Its genius is in its scalability and versatility.

The transistor laser invented by scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has now been found to possess fundamental non-linear characteristics that are new to a transistor and ...

A transistor is a key component in electronics, often used as a switch or to amplify a signal from a sensor. NPN (negative-positive-negative) transistors are the most used transistor. An ...

FIFTY years ago today in Murray Hill, N. J., a Bell Labs engineer named Walter Brattain connected two strips of gold foil to a thin piece of germanium and noted with satisfaction that this combinat… ...