Relearning the Basics of Transistors and Feeling Crushed by My Fifth-Year Ignorance

It has been five years since I started working in the semiconductor industry. I relearned the basics of transistors and felt ...
EDN

Bipolar Transistor Circuit Design & Analysis, Part 5

In previous parts of this series we reviewed the basic transistor parameters that determine ac voltage gain and practical considerations limiting high gain. The role of a coupling capacitor was ...
Science Daily

Cutting edge transistors for semiconductors of the future

Transistors that can change properties are important elements in the development of tomorrow's semiconductors. With standard transistors approaching the limit for how small they can be, having more ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Reducing Contact Resistance Pushes 2D Transistors Toward Advanced CMOS (HUST, PolyU, UCSB, NUS)

Researchers at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of California, Santa Barbara, and National University of Singapore published a technical ...

Thinking about IBM's Analog AI Chips: Floating-Gate MOS as a 'Weight-Storing Transistor'

BackgroundLet me write a Note article while the PSC-OS simulation is running. Are GPUs and NPUs the final solution for AI ...
EDN

Bipolar Transistor Circuit Design & Analysis, Part 4

In Parts 1, 2, and 3 we took a closer look at calculating “ac” gain and how to desensitize the circuit to temperature and transistor parameter variations. In part 4 we consider the effects of a ...