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The top 8 semiconductor stories of 2025

This year’s top semiconductor stories were mostly about the long and twisting trips a technology takes from idea (or even raw ...

Kioxia shows 3D memory innovation with ultra-low off-current transistors

Kioxia says it has developed highly stackable oxide-semiconductor channel transistors capable of supporting high-density 3D DRAM. This development could lead to cheaper and faster memory by lowering ...
Devdiscourse

TSMC Achieves Milestone with 2nm Chip Production Commencement

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has commenced volume production of its advanced 2-nanometer chips, marking a ...
Nature

Metal-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors and Their Applications

Metal-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors (MESFETs) have long been pivotal in bridging fundamental semiconductor physics with high-performance electronic applications. As devices that combine metal ...
ZDNet

RMIT ditches semiconductor for air channel transistor concept

Researchers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) have developed a proof of concept that is able to pass currents across an air channel rather than silicon. The university ...
DATAQUEST

Kioxia showcases highly stackable oxide-semiconductor channel transistors

Developed core technology that will allow practical implementation of high-density, low-power 3D DRAM, presented at IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Method for Fabricating Corrugated Gate Dielectric-Semiconductor Interface Transistor

Today’s trend in semiconductor chip manufacturing involves the miniaturizationof transistors and increasing the density of transistors per integrated circuit. Researchers at CU Boulder have developed ...
EurekAlert!

First 2D semiconductor with 1000 transistors developed at EPFL Switzerland: Redefining energy efficiency in data processing

In a paper published in the journal Nature Electronics, researchers from EPFL’s School of Engineering in the Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures (LANES) present a new processor that ...
Semiconductor Engineering

A Ferroelectric Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor

Here, we report a ferroelectric semiconductor field-effect transistor in which a two-dimensional ferroelectric semiconductor, indium selenide (α-In2Se3), is used as the channel material in the device.
ExtremeTech

What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

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Purdue University

Purdue technology for downscaling transistors could advance semiconductor design

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – An innovation by Purdue University researchers could help the semiconductor industry design transistors that are smaller, use less power and switch from on to off at smaller ...