On the junction transistor versus the more complicated point-contact transistor: -- Morgan Sparks, interview for "Transistorized!" -- Morgan Sparks, interview for "Transistorized!" ...

The sandwich transistor was William Shockley's brainchild. It's also called the junction transistor. While the rest of the lab was busy researching Bardeen and Brattain's point-contact transistor ...

The animation shows the main events in gap junction assembly—from the synthesis of gap junction proteins, called connexins, to the opening of the channels, allowing ions and small molecules to ...

While silicon based transistors have been the foundation of modern electronics, carbon nanotube wires show promise in replacing silicon because the technology can operate ten times as fast and is more ...

Transistors are the fundamental building blocks of modern electronic devices – and all existing transistors contain semiconductor junctions. The most common type of junction is the p–n junction, which ...

Transistors are no doubt one of humankinds greatest inventions. However, the associated greatness brings with it unprecedented complexity under the hood. To fully understand how a transistor works,… ...

There are two main types of transistor: bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and field effect transistors (FETs). BJTs are made of doped materials and can be configured as NPN and PNP. A transistor ...

Current transistors are based on junctions, which are formed by placing two pieces of silicon with different polarities side-by-side. Controlling the junction allows the current in the device to ...

Y junctions made of nanotubes could come to the rescue, say Prabhakar R. Bandaru of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and his colleagues there and at Clemson (S.C.) University.