Perovskites have received a lot of attention as semiconductor materials for solar cells because they’re efficient, inexpensive, and easy to make. But designing transistors, the fundamental component ...

The end result was a wooden transistor that could work like a normal one. The component could regulate an electric current passing through it, provide a consistent flow of electrons at a selected ...

There are few technologies more fundamental to modern life than the ability to control light with precision. From fiber-optic ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Engineers are unveiling an upgrade to the transistor laser that could be used to boost computer processor speeds - the formation of two stable energy states and the ability to ...

The ultrathin topological insulator sodium bismuthide (Na 3 Bi) can switch to being a conventional insulator when an electric field is applied. This “off-on” effect, discovered by researchers in ...

A team of engineers from the University of Illinois unveiled an upgrade to a transistor laser that can be used to increase computer processor speeds and form two stable energy states with the ability ...

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, ...

University of Arizona physicists have discovered how to turn single molecules into working transistors. University of Arizona physicists have discovered how to turn single molecules into working ...