Science Daily

Half-Terahertz Performance: Georgia Tech/IBM Team Demonstrates First 500 GHz Silicon-Germanium Transistors

A research team from IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology has demonstrated the first silicon-germanium transistor able to operate at frequencies above 500 GHz. Though the record performance was ...
technologynetworks

Germanium–Tin Transistor Developed as an Alternative to Silicon

Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich have fabricated a new type of transistor from a germanium–tin alloy that has several advantages over conventional switching elements. Charge carriers can move ...
Hackaday

germanium transistors

AF114 germanium transistors and related ones like the AF115 through AF117 were quite popular during the 1960s, but they quickly developed a reputation for failure. This is due to what should have made ...
Nanowerk

Back to the roots: Germanium outperforms silicon in energy efficient transistors with n- und p- conduction

(Nanowerk News) A team of scientists from the Nanoelectronic Materials Laboratory (NaMLab gGmbH) and the Cluster of Excellence Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) at the Dresden ...
Nature

Silicon-Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors and Radiation Effects

Silicon-Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (SiGe HBTs) represent a critical advancement in semiconductor technology, integrating a silicon base with germanium to markedly enhance frequency ...
Gizmodo

Germanium Transistors Are Four Times Faster Than Today’s

It might look like something out of Tron, but you’re actually looking at a new type of transistor made out of germanium—which is four times faster than those currently in use. The new transistor, ...
Electronics Weekly

Fable: The Company Which Made Germanium Transistors

There was once a company which achieved the remarkable feat of getting the first junction transistor to market. The company manufactured the device in 1952, the same year as the inventors of the ...
AZOM

New Type of Transistor from a Germanium–Tin Alloy Developed

At the Forschungszentrum Jülich, a new kind of transistor from germanium–tin alloy has been fabricated by scientists. The alloy comes with numerous benefits over traditional switching elements. The ...
Nature

Academic and industry research progress in germanium nanodevices

Gordon Moore's visionary prediction, made in 1965, that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit chip would double every two years continues to be the main idea guiding the semiconductor ...
PBS

Evolution of the Transistor

In the beginning, there was the point-contact transistor. This was the very first transistor ever made, built by Walter Brattain with the help of John Bardeen. It was made of two gold foil contacts ...
EurekAlert!

Germanium outperforms silicon in energy efficient transistors with n- und p- conduction

A team of scientists from the Nanoelectronic Materials Laboratory (NaMLab gGmbH) and the Cluster of Excellence Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) at the Dresden University of Technology ...