PORTLAND, Ore. — Expensive optical-to-electronic-to-optical converters are needed to switch photonic signals. Now, researchers have demonstrated an excitonic transistor that can perform the operation ...

Transistors are tiny electronic components that act as switches and amplifiers, and they dwell at the heart of modern technology. In simple terms, a transistor can turn a flow of electricity on or off ...

For switching high-powered loads from a microcontroller, or for switching AC loads in general, most of us will reach into the ...

Transistor is coming to the Nintendo Switch, alongside Supergiant Games' Bastion, and we got to play it for ourselves at PAX West 2018. Supergiant Games is making a splash on Nintendo Switch by ...

Researchers in Germany have unveiled an ultra-fast light switch made of very thin semiconductor ...

(Nanowerk News) At Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), physicist Professor Thomas Schimmel and his team have developed a single-atom transistor, the smallest transistor worldwide. This quantum ...

Logan Moore is the Managing Editor around these parts and enjoys the video game Super Mario Odyssey. During the Nintendo Switch Nindies live stream today, a pair of Supergiant titles were revealed to ...

Fast switching: the Hybrid Photonics Labs at Skoltech where the new optical transistor was created. (Courtesy: Skoltech) A new optical transistor has been designed by researchers in Russia, ...

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