Scientists fabricate first plasma transistor

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 10:49 in Physics & Chemistry

Since their development in the 1940s, transistors have been at the heart of computers and other modern electronic devices. Transistors - whose job is to start, stop, or amplify electric current - come in all shapes, sizes and materials, depending on the application. Recently, scientists have fabricated a new variation: a micro-sized plasma transistor.

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