Electronic Design

Test Setup Checks Transistors’ hFEs When Tight Control Is Important

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics. The spread of h FE values in a batch of transistors may be wide enough to cause unreliable performance during mass production of a ...
Electronic Design

System-level test contends with billions of untested transistors

Why might you need semiconductor system-level test (SLT)? As Karthik Ranganathan, director for semiconductor solutions at Astronics Test Systems, points out, if you test a 22-nm, ...
EDN

Coating lets nanotube transistors self-assemble on chips

Portland, Ore. — Next-generation semiconductors aim to harness the ballistic electron transport capabilities of pure carbon nanotubes, but until now there has been no easy way to integrate the tubes ...
Nanowerk

Dual-gate graphene transistor enables 20x more sensitive biosensing in liquids

Dual-gate graphene transistor enables 20x more sensitive biosensing in liquids The new framework can power sensors that ...