One of the joys of writing up the entries for the 2025 Component Abuse Challenge has come in finding all the different alternative uses for the humble transistor. This building block of all modern ...

Transistors, the tiny switches that flip on and off inside computer chips, have long been the domain of electricity. But scientists are beginning to develop chip components that run on light. Last ...

Transistor is coming to the Nintendo Switch, alongside Supergiant Games' Bastion, and we got to play it for ourselves at PAX West 2018. Supergiant Games is making a splash on Nintendo Switch by ...

Your design task, should you decide to accept it: given an input voltage, square it. Ok, that’s too hard since squaring 8 volts would give you 64 volts, so let’s say the output should be 10% of the ...

Fast switching: the Hybrid Photonics Labs at Skoltech where the new optical transistor was created. (Courtesy: Skoltech) A new optical transistor has been designed by researchers in Russia, ...

This video explains how transistors work as switches and amplifiers in electronic circuits. Transistors control the flow of ...

This news release is also available in French and Japanese. (To view the PDF in Japanese, please download Acrobat 5.0. with Asian font-pack). A single electron makes ...

Optical connections are slowly replacing wires as a means of shuffling bits in between systems—there are already plans afoot to have different components within a single system communicate via an ...

A previous Design Idea describes a circuit that uses an astable multivibrator to drive an LED (Reference 1). The circuit in Figure 1 uses a simpler alternative approach. The circuit uses a 2N3904 NPN ...

A study by an engineering team from the University of Illinois has found that light and electrons can work together in transistor lasers to produce faster switching speeds than in any other device.