A Planet Analog article, “ 2N3904: Why use a 60-year-old transistor? ” by Bill Schweber, inspired some interest in this old ...

Transistors, the building blocks of modern electronics, are typically made of silicon. Because it's a semiconductor, this material can control the flow of electricity in a circuit. But silicon has ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the ...

A team of scientists has taken a big step toward a new kind of computing that could work at the speed of light. Instead of ...

The familiar five volts standard from back in the TTL days always struck me as odd. Back when I was just a poor kid trying to ...

Bell Labs scientists behind the invention of the transistor would, at last, have the U.S. Patent in their hands.

[Kevin Darrah] wanted to make a simple 3.3V regulator without using an integrated circuit. He wound up using two common NPN transistors and 4 1K resistors. The circuit isn’t going to beat out a cheap ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to three scientists who made electrical circuits act like atoms - an experiment which ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis have been awarded the Physics Nobel Prize for their work on quantum ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis demonstrated quantum tunneling in an electrical circuit, with ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to three scientists who made electrical circuits act like atoms - an experiment which ...