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Transistors smaller than a strand of DNA just packed nearly 100 billion switches onto a fingernail, and the stacking trick IBM used to cross a barrier physicists thought wo…

IBM's 0.7nm nanostack chip packs 100 billion transistors onto a fingernail using a 3D stacking trick that cracks the sub-1nm ...
Science Daily

A 0.42-nanometer breakthrough could push transistors beyond silicon

Atomically thin semiconductors could enable dramatically smaller and more efficient chips, but a stubborn problem at the ...
SpaceNews

Testing, Radiation Testing: Northwestern Transistors On Space Station

EVANSTON, Ill. — Transistors based on a new kind of material created by Northwestern University researchers have been lifted into outer space on the space shuttle Endeavour and attached to the outside ...
Phys.org

Most lab testing quietly inflates 2D transistor performance, research reveals

For nearly two decades, two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have been studied as a complement or possible successor to silicon transistors, promising smaller, faster and more energy-efficient ...
Purdue University

Purdue engineers create model for testing transistor reliability

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Researchers at Purdue University have created a "unified model" for predicting the reliability of new designs for silicon transistors – a potential tool that industry could use ...
Electronic Design

Test Setup Checks Transistors’ hFEs When Tight Control Is Important

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics. The spread of h FE values in a batch of transistors may be wide enough to cause unreliable performance during mass production of a ...