Inside there's a coil of wire wrapped around an iron core. When a current flows through this control wire, it creates a magnetic field. This pulls down the metal switch on top, which contacts the ...

Semiconductor transistors now switch states in single-digit picoseconds, enabling processors to flip billions of logic gates every second without a single mechanical component. Research on 0.07-micron ...

Can transistors switch below the conventional power limit without sacrificing useful current? A 2D device uses quantum ...

Supergiant Games is making a splash on Nintendo Switch by bringing both of its past hits Bastion and Transistor to the console. Switch owners who missed Transistor should know that it was one of ...

An artist’s rendering of a fullerene switch with incoming electron and incident red laser light pulses. (Image: Yanagisawa et al. CC-BY) Over 70 years ago, physicists discovered that molecules emit ...

Portland, Ore. — Researchers at the University of Alberta have successfully demonstrated a single-molecule switch and transistor. “There is no longer a question of whether a single molecule can be ...

Scientists from the University of Washington have designed custom proteins that can switch between two fully structured conformations. By coupling this molecular motion with a binding event, these ...

An optical transistor that switches a laser beam on and off rather than an electric current could form the building block of future light-based computers. 1 July 2009 AN OPTICAL transistor that ...