Researchers have demonstrated a switch, analogous to a transistor, made from a single molecule called fullerene. By using a carefully tuned laser pulse, the researchers are able to use fullerene to ...

Year after year, semiconductor manufacturers scale down the size of components, making processors faster and more efficient. However, we're approaching the limits of atomic scale with silicon, leading ...

Less than a week following the announcement of IBM’s miraculous 7-nm chip-ready transistor, another microscopic transistor made headlines — this one is made up of a single molecule plus smidgen of ...

An artist’s rendering of a fullerene switch with incoming electron and incident red laser light pulses. (Image: Yanagisawa et al. CC-BY) Over 70 years ago, physicists discovered that molecules emit ...

In this lesson, students search for transistor-based devices at school. They use the results of their search to explain the significance of the transistor in their lives. A transistor is a tiny device ...

Intel Corp. will announce today that the world's largest chipmaker has found the answer to one of the most perplexing problems for the semiconductor industry: the leakage of electricity in microchips.

For this, we rely on chips, the most advanced of which are manufactured with billions of microscopic transistors, each of which can represent a single digit. The entire digital economy only exists ...

When we talk about computing these days, we tend to talk about software and the engineers who write it. But we wouldn’t be anywhere without the hardware and the physical sciences that have enabled it ...

For the first time, an international team of researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Solid State Physics, has demonstrated a switch, analogous to a transistor, made ...

The first lithography tools were fairly simple, but the technologies that produce today’s chips are among humankind’s most complex inventions. When we talk about computing these days, we tend to talk ...