Today's transistors can switch millions or even billions of times per second, enabling the astonishing speeds of modern processors. Why Silicon?

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A transistor made using two atomically thin materials sets size record A key transistor component is made from the edge of a sheet of graphene.

The first commercial product to use transistors was the hearing aid, made in 1952. Fortune magazine declared 1953 the “Year of the Transistor,” and, by 1954, Texas Instruments had introduced ...

As a result, their device could rapidly and efficiently switch between two possible logic states – making for an ideal optical transistor. Faster and less power Compared with the latest electrical ...

Researchers have reported a black phosphorus transistor that can be used as an alternative ultra-low power switch. A research team developed a thickness-controlled black phosphorous tunnel field ...

The main thing is that the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg has now provided "the missing switch" that graphene transistors so desperately needed.

"Researchers have been struggling to minimize the size of the transistor to fit as many as possible on chips for semiconductors, usually using inorganic materials like silicon," Li says.