University of California

Smallest transistor ever made by Berkeley Lab

For more than a decade, engineers have been eyeing the finish line in the race to shrink the size of components in integrated circuits. They knew that the laws of physics had set a 5-nanometer ...
CNET

Bell Labs makes molecule-size transistor

Bell Labs has created a tiny new transistor and discovered a way to whip it up in a laboratory beaker. On Thursday, the research arm of Lucent Technologies unveiled a new organic transistor--made from ...
Marketplace

Bell Labs: The research center behind the transistor, and so much more

The future began 75 years ago this week with the invention of a device that’s seen as the most manufactured item in human history. The transistor was born in New Jersey on Dec. 16, 1947. This week, we ...
AZoNano

The Graphene Transistor Designed For Diagnostics

Lab-on-a-chip is a class of devices that can revolutionize the natural working of a laboratory, with multiple laboratory techniques being integrated and automated in a system that fits into a chip of ...
Science Daily

Bell Labs Scientists Usher In New Era Of Molecular-Scale Electronics; Tiny Organic Transistors May Lead To Less Expensive And More Powerful Chips

Scientists from Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs have created organic transistors with a single-molecule channel length, setting the stage for a new class of inexpensive and easily assembled molecular ...
EDN

Bell Labs Develops Organic Transistors

Scientists from Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Bell Labs today announced they have created organic transistors with a single-molecule channel length. The researchers said they believe this development ...
EDN

Bell Labs claims breakthrough in molecular-scale transistor R&D

MURRAY HILL, N.J.–Scientists at Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Bell Laboratories today announced the creation of organic transistors with a single-molecule channel length. The development promises to ...
Hexus

Berkeley Lab researchers create a transistor with a 1-nm gate

A research team at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has created a transistor with a working 1-nm gate. Lead by faculty scientist Ali Javey, the team ...
Billings Gazette

Bell Labs builds nano-transistor

NEW YORK (AP) - Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Bell Labs, the storied research lab that invented the transistor in 1947, announced the development of a tiny new transistor made of a simple cluster of ...
PBS

Walter Brown

Walter Brown began working in Shockley's lab several years after the invention of the transistor—a time when the lab was extremely social. Coworkers often spent their weekends together going out at ...
Science Daily

Light-generating transistors to power labs on chips

What started out as ‘blue-sky’ thinking by a group of researchers could ultimately lead to the commercial mass production of a new generation of optoelectronic components for devices ranging from ...
Gizmodo

Berkeley Lab’s 2D Transistor Could Supercharge Tomorrow’s Electronics

Graphene is regularly touted as a “super material” in electronics manufacturing—one able to do everything that silicon does, except better. But that isn’t good enough for one team at Berkeley Labs.