Germanium: Semiconductor milestone
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 - 16:31
in Physics & Chemistry
A laboratory at Purdue University provided a critical part of the world's first transistor in 1947 -- the purified germanium semiconductor -- and now researchers there are on the forefront of a new germanium milestone. The team has created the first modern germanium circuit -- a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) device -- using germanium as the semiconductor instead of silicon.