Nearly every piece of technology you use—from smartphones to computers—relies on one revolutionary component: the transistor.

In the half-century since the transistor was invented, this workhorse component of almost every electronic device has shrunk from the size of a pencil eraser to smaller than a bacterium. The ...

Such are the breadth of functions delivered by integrated circuits, it’s now rare to see a simple small-signal transistor project on these pages. But if you delve back into the roots of ...

Today's electronic conveniences were made possible by the invention on the transistor in 1947. The inventors were John Bardeen and Walter Brattain of Bell Telephone Laboratories. Their transistor ...

In 1964, when I started working in the electronics industry, a single silicon transistor cost over £1 ($2.80 at the time, or about $22 at 2014 prices). These cheap ones were not very good and higher ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Organic semiconductors have long held promise for enabling deformable electronic devices that can be manufactured at low cost and high volumes using printing techniques. However, ...