Researchers have discovered a new physical phenomenon that could yield transistors with greatly enhanced capacitance -- a measure of the voltage required to move a charge. And that, in turn, could ...

Altering the very fabric of technophilic society, a multinational team of material scientists have created electric circuits and transistors out of cotton fibers. Two kinds of transistor were created: ...

A new way of designing chips could solve one of the biggest problems facing wearable computers such as Google Glass and the Samsung smart watch—their batteries generally have to be recharged every day ...

This image taken with a transmission electron microscope shows the cross section of a new type of transistor shaped like a Christmas tree that was created by researchers at Purdue and Harvard ...

To mark the 50th Anniversary of Moore's Law, we'll explore how much computing power has improved and how much farther it can go. According to Moore's Law, the number of transistors on a computer chip ...

As more and more functions are crammed into cell phones and other portable electronic devices, the capacity of their batteries is being sorely tested. To meet this challenge, Finnish handset ...

STACKS of nanomagnets could make future supercomputers run leaner. Microchips made from tiny magnets rather than conventional power-hungry transistors may enable intensive number-crunching tasks like ...

Silicon integrated circuits, which are used in computer processors, are approaching the maximum feasible density of transistors on a single chip -- at least, in two-dimensional arrays. Silicon ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- A hacker can reproduce a circuit on a chip by discovering what key transistors are doing in a circuit - but not if the transistor "type" is undetectable. Purdue University ...