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https://www.computerhistory.org/siliconengine/invention-of-the-point-contact-transistor

Encouraged by Executive Vice President Mervin Kelly, William Shockley returned from wartime assignments in early 1945 to begin organizing a solid-state physics group at Bell Labs. Among other things, this group pursued research on semiconductor replacements for unreliable vacuum …

http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/devices/nanotubebased-tunneling-field-ef…

Researchers at Michigan Technological University (MTU) have developed a method for producing a tunneling field effect transistor (TFET) that overcomes a key obstacle to their adoption: the need to be operated at cryogenic temperatures. Eliminating semiconductor materials in the d…

https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/05/24/0337249/researchers-build-the-worlds-fastest-p…

"What if ultrafast pulses of light could operate computers at speeds a million times faster than today's best processors?" asks the University of Arizona . "A team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Arizona, are working to make that possible." In a ground…

https://news.arizona.edu/news/u-researchers-developing-worlds-first-petahertz-speed-photot…

What if ultrafast pulses of light could operate computers at speeds a million times faster than today's best processors? A team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Arizona, are working to make that possible. In a groundbreaking international effort, resear…

https://www.acs.org/pressroom/tiny-matters/the-future-of-electronics-how-small-can-we-go.h…

…Jones and I’m joined by my cohost Deboki Chakravarti. Today we’re talking about transistors, the electron-passing, signal-amplifying switches that make so much of our technology today possible. We’ll be talking about what they are, how they were invented, and why their future is …