The prediction that transistor counts on microchips would keep doubling every two years gave the tech industry its growth engine for decades. That engine is losing speed. As physical limits squeeze ...

The ‘nanometer’ number in chip manufacturing refers to the size of the smallest parts, like transistor gates. A 5nm process ...

Computer researchers have fashioned infinitesimally tiny electronic switches using conventional chipmaking equipment, demonstrating that the semiconductor industry will be able to continue shrinking ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a powerful imaging technique that reveals atomic scale defects inside computer chips for the first time. Using an advanced electron microscopy method, ...

The semiconductor chips driving modern-day computer processors are covered in billions of individual transistors, each of ...

Researchers at Penn State in the US have developed a microscopic, 2D-material-based thermometer designed ...

Cornell researchers have used advanced electron microscopy to identify "mouse bite" defects in 3D transistors for the first time ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have literally taken a leap into a new era of computing power by making the world's smallest precision-built transistor - a "quantum dot" of just seven atoms in a single ...

Researchers developed a dual-modulated vertical transistor that suppresses leakage at nanoscale channels and supports ...

Researchers used advanced electron ptychography to visualize atomic-scale defects inside modern transistors. The technique ...