Two days later I had a “SainSmart Mega328 Transistor Tester Diode Triode Capacitance ESR Meter MOS/PNP/NPN L/C/R” in my hands. I’m going to get the obvious out of the way.

The first transistor was about half an inch high. That's mammoth by today's standards, when 7 million transistors can fit on a single computer chip. It was nevertheless an amazing piece of ...

The transistor is today’s “Engineering Week Key Moments.” Their history can be traced back to 1907 with the development of the thermionic triode, a device that enabled amplified radio ...

Id: 003188 Credits Min: 3 Credits Max: 3 Description. A brief introduction to solid-state physics, leading to discussion of physical characteristics of p-n junction diodes, bipolar junction ...

The audion, or triode, at the heart of the vacuum tube is what the transistor was built to replace. De Forest was born in Alabama to a Congregational minister who hoped that his son would continue ...

In fact, [Sebastian] even used literature from the triode version of this detector to figure out the values for some of the components. The only active component is a BF256B JFET; the rest are a ...

Nearly 62 years after researchers at Bell Labs demonstrated the first functional transistor, scientists say they have made another major breakthrough. Researchers showed the first functional ...

Which is why NASA's Ames Research Center is going back to the future with its new vacuum transistor -- a nanometer-scale vacuum tube that, in early testing, has reached speeds of up to 460GHz.

Editor's take: The University of Arizona could become the birthplace of the world's first petahertz-speed transistor. If successful, this research work could mark the dawn of a new era in ...