Transistor

Researchers have used off-the-shelf components to create a sensor device that is not only cost-effective but can quickly detect 32 different pathogens and has sensitivities on par with the state-of-the-art biosensors used in pathology labs.

Scientists at Columbia University have developed flexible, functional, waterproof transistors. These could find use in building miniaturized medical sensors, brain-machine interfaces, or long-term implants.

A new graphene-based sensor has been developed that can quickly and easily detect DNA mutations associated with a range of cancers and other life-threatening illnesses. It is envisaged that the sensor will eventually be implantable, and communicate data wirelessly to mobile devices in real-time.

Researchers at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have invented a new type of transistor that can learn, potentially enabling a new approach to artificial intelligence by copying the way our brains work.

Researchers at NASA and the National Nanofab Center in South Korea are working on a vacuum channel transistor that can combines the best traits from transistors and vacuum tubes.

Three-dimensional transistors made out of indium-gallium-arsenide could result in much faster and lighter computers.

Squids have provided the key ingredient for a proton-conducting transistor, that may allow man-made devices to communicate with living systems.

Scientists from the Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona have found a way to implant minute silicon chips into living cells and use them as intracellular sensors.

Dutch researchers developed a way to store electronic spin information into silicon, which could then be manipulated by a new spintronics transistor developed by Toshiba.

A single-atom transistor developed by Australian and Finnish scientists could prove extremely useful in the search of a better quantum bit for the next generation of personal computers.

Researchers at Purdue University have made important progress in developing finFET transistors that could one day take the place of traditional MOSFETs.