While silicon carbide (SiC) has long been promoted as a key to developing electronics for extreme environments, the field has ...

Every computer chip is built from a switch smaller than anything the human eye can resolve, and for decades engineers have made those switches shrink, generation after generation, so more of them fit ...

For decades, silicon transistors have driven computational power, and scientists have devoted much of their time to making ...

As the global semiconductor industry enters the so-called 2-nanometer process era, the actual size of transistors—the core components of semiconductor chips—still remains above 10 nm. How much smaller ...

Superconducting transistor quantum computing reaches a milestone: Finnish startup S-Transistors, spun from VTT, raised 2.6 million euros and unveiled wafer-scale zero-resistance chips that could solve ...

Direct imaging shows that the contacts through which current flows into atomically thin transistors can be scaled down to just a few nanometres in length. Read the paper: Directly probing the carrier ...

Logical circuits have been built from nanosheet stacks of various transistors, which could make electronic devices faster and more compact. Xiong Xiong is in the School of Integrated Circuits and the ...