Austin, Texas — With the difficult back-end transition to low-k dielectrics and copper still fresh in chip makers' minds, this week's Semicon West, the equipment industry's biggest annual gathering, ...

In recent weeks, there have been a number of tributes heralding the invention of the transistor, which was invented by Bell Lab scientists in 1947 and has spawned the modern generation of electronics.

For decades, chipmakers have squeezed more computing power out of silicon by shrinking transistors, but that strategy is ...

What many engineers once saw as a flaw in organic electronics could actually make these devices more stable and reliable, according to new research from the University of Surrey and Joanneum Research ...

Traditional CMOS chips are fabricated by applying and then etching repeated layers of different materials, applied to a wafer of ultra-pure silicon. The bottom-most layer, also known as the front end ...

What many engineers once saw as a flaw in organic electronics could actually make these devices more stable and reliable, ...

MIT researchers developed a new fabrication method that could enable them to stack multiple active components, like transistors and memory units, on top of an existing circuit, which would improve the ...

Way back in the salad days of digital computing (the 1940s and '50s), computers were made of vacuum tubes -- big, hot, clunky devices that, when you got right down to it, were essentially glorified ...