The first transistors were point contact devices, not far from the cats-whiskers of early radio receivers. They were fragile and expensive, and their performance was not very high. The transistor ...

Thermal printing is a non-impact printing method that uses heat to produce images or text on specially coated heat-sensitive paper, known as thermal paper. It prints by passing the thermal paper over ...

NUS scientists have made a standard silicon transistor mimic brain functions, paving the way for efficient, scalable AI hardware using existing chip technology. NUS researchers have shown that a ...

Explains the principles of transistor switching circuits, highlighting their role in electronic computers. It contrasts transistors with vacuum tubes, emphasizing that transistors function as ...

The PDP-11/05 Console USB Adapter operates as a simple USB-to-serial bridge. To the host computer, the Console Adapter appears as a virtual COM port which can be access by a terminal program. Software ...

Amidst the advances in CMOS and wide bandgap semiconductor technology, you can easily forget that the first transistor invented by William Shockley in 1949 was a bipolar junction transistor (BJT).

Chaotic circuits can arise from either computed (using Analog Computers or Digital Computers) solutions to coupled differential equations or from unstable systems/circuits. A new open-source circuit ...

Abstract: Reliability is one of the key concerns in circuit design. The circuit must be able to tolerate transistor degradation to sustain reliability against timing failure. Whether a transistor is ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Organic semiconductors have long held promise for enabling deformable electronic devices that can be manufactured at low cost and high volumes using printing techniques. However, ...

Abstract: This paper describes a high gain lateral PNP transistor that has been successfully incorporated into integrated circuits, The structure is entirely compatible with existing processes and no ...