Founded in 1959 in Danbury, CT, National Semiconductor was in the forefront of the first transistors and integrated circuits. Over the years, it became known for its analog and mixed mode ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have demonstrated that a single, standard silicon transistor ... CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) technology, the same ...

Kevin Aylesworth is a Senior Program Officer at the National Research Council ... our challenge to build a working replica of the first transistor. (He says he thought it was a "cool thing ...

Essentially, a transistor, as one of the foundational elements of modern electronic devices, is made up of three layers of a semiconductor material, typically silicon, each layer possessing a ...

Founded in 1955, Shockley Semiconductor was the brainchild of William Shockley. When he was ready to leave Bell Labs, he decided to form a company to build transistors. Funded by Beckman ...

Early electronic devices used a spark gap. These have been almost completely replaced with tubes and then semiconductor devices such as transistors. However, transistors will soon reach a ...