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.

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 ...

The triode is one of the simplest kinds of vacuum tubes. Inside its evacuated glass envelope, the triode really is just a few bits of wire and metal. Triodes are able to amplify signals simply by h… ...

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 ...

Shrinking silicon transistors have reached their physical limits, but a team from the University of Tokyo is rewriting the rules. They've created a cutting-edge transistor using gallium-doped ...

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.

Chinese researchers at Peking University have unveiled a potentially game-changing silicon-free transistor, claiming it could outperform the latest chips from Intel, TSMC, and Samsung.