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Ultra-small, high-performance electronics grown directly on 2D semiconductors

In recent years, electronics engineers have been trying to identify semiconducting materials that could substitute for ...
EDN

Smallest possible transistor shrinks to atomic level

Researchers at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) have created a single-atom transistor by implanting a designer molecule between two gold electrodes or wires to create a circuit. They believe that they ...
EDN

ROHM’s World’s Smallest Transistor Available from Mouser

July 29, 2013 – Mouser Electronics, Inc. announces the availability of the smallest transistor package on the market from ROHM Semiconductor which is optimized for thin, compact portable devices. ROHM ...
Ars Technica

A transistor made using two atomically thin materials sets size record

The ever-shrinking features of transistors etched in silicon have always required pushing the cutting edge of manufacturing technology. The discovery of atomically thin materials like graphene and ...
Electronic Design

Tiny Compound Transistor Could Challenge Silicon's Dominance

December 10, 2012. Silicon’s crown is under threat: The semiconductor’s days as the king of microchips for computers and smart devices could be numbered, thanks to the development of the smallest ...
InfoWorld

NEC develops world’s smallest transistor

Engineers at NEC Corp. have developed the world’s smallest transistor with a gate length of 5 nanometers, the company said Monday. NEC will disclose the development at the Institute of Electrical and ...
Computerworld

IBM claims world’s smallest silicon transistor

IBM claims to have developed the world’s smallest working silicon transistor. At 6 nanometers in length (a nanometer, nm, is one-billionth of a meter), the new transistor is at least 10 times smaller ...