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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.

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1. ECE 606 Lecture 24: MOSFET Non-Idealities

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   26 Nov 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

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2. ECE 606 Lecture 20: Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor

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3. ECE 606 Lecture 19: Bipolar Transistors Design

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4. ECE 606 Lecture 18: Bipolar Transistors a) Introduction b) Design

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5. Uniform Methodology of Benchmarking Beyond-CMOS Devices

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   31 Oct 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dmitri Nikonov

   Multiple logic devices are presently under study within the Nanoelectronic Research Initiative (NRI) to carry the development of integrated circuits beyond the CMOS roadmap. Structure and...

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6. ECE 606 Lecture 17: Shottky Diode

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7. ECE 606 Lecture 16: p-n Diode AC Response

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8. ECE 606 Lecture 15: p-n Diode Characteristics

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9. ECE 606 Lecture 13: Solutions of the Continuity Equations - Analytical & Numerical

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10. ECE 606 Solid State Devices

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11. ECE 606 Lecture 11: Interface States Recombination/Carrier Transport

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12. ECE 606 Lecture 12: High Field, Mobility, Hall Effect, Diffusion

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13. ECE 606 Lecture 14: p-n Junctions

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14. ECE 606 Lecture 10: Shockley, Reed, Hall and other Recombinations

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15. ECE 606 Lecture 5: Density of States

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16. ECE 606 Lecture 6: Bandgap, Mass Measurements and Fermi-Dirac Statistics

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17. ECE 606 Lecture 7: Intrinsic semiconductors and Concepts of Doping

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18. ECE 606 Lecture 8: Temperature Dependent Carrier Density Concepts of Recombination

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19. ECE 606 Lecture 9: Recombination Process and Rates

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20. ECE 606 Lecture 4: Periodic Potentials Solutions of Schrödinger's Equation

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