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On June 30, 1948, AT&T Bell Labs unveiled the transitor to the world, creating a spark of explosive economic growth that would lead into the Information Age. William Shockley led a team of researchers, including Walter Brattain and John Bardeen, who invented the device. Like the existing triode vacuum tube device, the transistor could amplify signals and switch currents on and off, but the transistor was smaller, cheaper, and more efficient. Moreover, it could be integrated with millions of other transistors onto a single chip, creating the integrated circuit at the heart of modern computers.

Today, most transistors are being manufactured with a minimum feature size of 60-90nm--roughly 200-300 atoms. As the push continues to make devices even smaller, researchers must account for quantum mechanical effects in the device behavior. With fewer and fewer atoms, the positions of impurities and other irregularities begin to matter, and device reliability becomes an issue. So rather than shrink existing devices, many researchers are working on entirely new devices, based on carbon nanotubes, spintronics, molecular conduction, and other nanotechnologies.

Learn more about transistors from the many resources on this site, listed below. Use our simulation tools to simulate performance characteristics for your own devices.

Resources (21-40 of 334)

  1. NEMO5 and 2D Materials: Tuning Bandstructures, Wave Functions and Electrostatic Screening

    19 Oct 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Tillmann Christoph Kubis

    In this talk, I will briefly discuss the MLWF approach and compare it to DFT and atomistic tight binding. Initial results using the MLWF approach for 2D material based devices will be discussed and compared to experiments. These results unveil systematic band structure changes as functions of the...

  2. Auger Generation as an Intrinsic Limit to Tunneling Field-Effect Transistor Performance

    22 Sep 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Jamie Teherani

    Many in the microelectronics field view tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) as society’s best hope for achieving a > 10× power reduction for electronic devices; however, despite a decade of considerable worldwide research, experimental TFET results have significantly...

  3. NEMO5, a Parallel, Multiscale, Multiphysics Nanoelectronics Modeling Tool

    19 Sep 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck

    The Nanoelectronic Modeling tool suite NEMO5 is aimed to comprehend the critical multi-scale, multi-physics phenomena and deliver results to engineers, scientists, and students through efficient computational approaches. NEMO5’s general software framework easily includes any kind of...

  4. Multi-Scale Modeling of Self-Heating Effects in Nano-Devices

    21 Apr 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Suleman Sami Qazi, Akash Anil Laturia, Robin Louis Daugherty, Katerina Raleva, Dragica Vasileska

    IWCE 2015 presentation. This paper discusses a multi-scale device modeling scheme for analyzing self-heating effects in nanoscale silicon devices. A 2D/3D particle-based device simulator is self-consistently coupled to an energy balance solver for the acoustic and optical phonon bath. This...

  5. Electronic and Vibrational Properties of 2D Materials from Monolayer to Bulk: Opportunity Unlimited

    21 Apr 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Mahesh R Neupane

    IWCE 2015 invited presentation. The placement of two dimensional (2D) materials such as hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) at the forefront of materials and device research was pioneered by the discovery of graphene, an atomically thin 2D allotrope of...

  6. nanoHUB - Educational Tour de Force

    14 Jan 2016 | | Contributor(s):: David K. Ferry

    nanoHUB was originally created to bring together the computational electronics world as a place where programs and results could be efficiently shared. For that purpose, it has matured and grown to where it is a major force in the area. But, it can also be a great tool for education, an...

  7. Green Light on Germanium

    02 Nov 2015 | | Contributor(s):: peide ye

    This talk will review recent progress as well as challenges on Ge research for future logic applications with emphasis on the breakthrough work at Purdue University on Ge nFET which leads to the demonstration of the world first Ge CMOS circuits on Si substrates. Ge device technology includes...

  8. [Illinois] Foundations of Nanoscience: Self-Assembled Architectures and Devices

    23 Oct 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Alan Rowan, Erik Luijten, Mark Brongersma, Graham Johnson, Ayusman Sen, Michelle Khine, Erkang Wang, Michael Famulok, Milan Stojanovic

    This is a yearly conference on foundations of nanoscience, maintaining the highest scientific standards and providing many opportunities for discussion and informal exchange of information and questions. Self-assembly is the central theme of the conference. Topics include experimental and...

  9. [Illinois] Device Applications of Metafilms and Metasurfaces

    23 Oct 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Mark Brongersma

  10. Long term Aging of Autonomous STructures (LAAST) Seminar Series

    07 Apr 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Ali Shakouri

    The Long term Aging of Autonomous STructures (LAAST) seminar series focuses on reliability and aging of devices for energy conversion, information processing or sensing.

  11. [Illinois] Atomic Engineering of III-V Semiconductor for Quantum Devices, from Deep UV (200 nm) to THZ (300 microns)

    03 Mar 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Manijeh Razeghi

    Nature offers us different kinds of atoms. But it takes human intelligence to put different atoms together in an elegant way in order to realize manmade structures that is lacking in nature. This is especially true in III-V semiconductor material systems. Guided by highly accurate atomic band...

  12. [Illinois] BioEngineering Seminar Series: Implantable Networks of Wireless Nanoelectronic Devices

    04 Feb 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Pedro Irazoqui

  13. Tunnel FETs - Device Physics and Realizations

    10 Jul 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Joachim Knoch

    Here, the operating principles of TFETs will be discussed in detail and experimental realizations as well as simulation results will be presented. In particular, the role of the injecting source contact will be elaborated on.

  14. Semiconductor Device Fundamentals Testbook Module A: Semiconductor Basics

    01 Jul 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Robert F. Pierret

    This is module A (part 1) of the Testbook for Semiconductor Device Fundamentals.

  15. Semiconductor Device Fundamentals Testbook Module B: Diode Basics

    01 Jul 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Robert F. Pierret

    This is module B (part 2) of the Testbook for Semiconductor Device Fundamentals.

  16. Exams for Semiconductor Device Fundamentals

    01 Jul 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Robert F. Pierret

    Collected herein are 54 mostly hour tests that were utilized over the years in a junior/senior-level course entitled “Semiconductor Devices” offered by the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the West Lafayette campus of Purdue University. Although the material probed on...

  17. Semiconductor Device Fundamentals Testbook Module C: Transistor Basics

    01 Jul 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Robert F. Pierret

    This is module C (part 3) of the Testbook for Semiconductor Device Fundamentals.

  18. Electron Phonon Interaction in Carbon Nanotube Devices

    28 Jun 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Sayed Hasan

    With the end of silicon technology scaling in sight, there has been a lot of interest in alternate novel channel materials and device geometry. Carbon nanotubes, the ultimate one-dimensional (1D) wire, is one such possibility. Since the report of the first CNT transistors, lots has been learned...

  19. Modeling Quantum Transport in Nanoscale Transistors

    28 Jun 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Ramesh Venugopal

    As critical transistor dimensions scale below the 100 nm (nanoscale) regime, quantum mechanical effects begin to manifest themselves and affect important device performance metrics. Therefore, simulation tools which can be applied to design nanoscale transistors in the future, require new theory...

  20. Introduction to Compact Models and Circuit Simulation

    19 Jun 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Tianshi Wang, Jaijeet Roychowdhury

    The presentation is a gentle introduction to compact models, basic circuit simulation concepts, and flows for developing compact models. The roadmap for the NEEDS-SPICE platform, being developed to ease the process of developing simulation-ready compact models for novel nanodevices, is briefly...