Semiconductor Engineering

Applying a Floating Gate Field Effect Transistor To A Logic-in-Memory Application Circuit Design

A technical paper titled “Analysis of Logic-in-Memory Full Adder Circuit With Floating Gate Field Effect Transistor (FGFET)” was published by researchers at Konkuk University, Korea National ...
Nature

High-rise transistors can be used to build space-saving circuits

Logical circuits have been built from nanosheet stacks of various transistors, which could make electronic devices faster and more compact. Xiong Xiong is in the School of Integrated Circuits and the ...
Nanowerk

Engineers develop a magnetic transistor for more energy-efficient electronics

A new device concept opens the door to compact, high-performance transistors with built-in memory. (Nanowerk News) Transistors, the building blocks of modern electronics, are typically made of silicon ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Vertically stacked, low-voltage organic ternary logic circuits including nonvolatile floating-gate memory transistors

Researchers demonstrate “a low-voltage organic ternary logic circuit, in which the organic HTR was vertically integrated with the organic nonvolatile flash memory.” “Multi-valued logic (MVL) circuits ...
Electronics Weekly

SGT transistor promises denser circuits

Researchers from Surrey and Cambridge universities and the National Research Institute in Rome have demonstrated the use of a pioneering circuit design that uses an the source-gated transistor (SGT), ...
Electronic Design

IEDM sees transistor, memory, laser innovations

The International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) held Dec. 2-6, 2017, in San Francisco offered imec and Leti an opportunity to disclose several innovations. imec announced three new developments: ...
Morning Overview on MSN

China claims sub-1 nm transistor that cuts power use for AI chips

A team of Chinese researchers has built a ferroelectric transistor with a gate length of just 1 nanometer that runs on 0.6 volts, a fraction of the voltage required by today’s commercial chip ...
EDN

In-Circuit Tester for SCR, Diodes, and Transistors

The circuit has been constructed to provide an in-circuit system that will test the integrity of electronic components such as Silicon Controlled Rectifiers, diodes, and PNP or NPN transistors. 4093 – ...
EDN

Collector-Base-Emitter Pin Identifier of Transistors

The circuit has been designed for transistors to determine whether the pin is emitter, base or collector as well as the type if NPN or PNP polarity, and can also be used in testing diodes. 4011 – a ...
Geeky Gadgets

How Does Computer Memory Work?

With transistors and logic gates as our basic building blocks, we can begin to construct the actual circuits that make up computer memory. One of the simplest memory circuits is the AND gate, which ...