transistors
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65 Years Ago The Transistor Jump-Started The World Of Modern Technology
65 years ago, December 16th 1947, William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain operated the first ever working point-contact transistor, almost known as the iotatron. Now, so many years later, we rely on the decedents of that transistor as a part of practically all of the high tech electronic devices we use every day.
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The Transistor Was Almost Called The Iotatron
When Bell Laboratories wrapped up work on the transistor in 1948, they let 25 employees vote on the name. And for some reason, those stodgy bastards passed up options such as the crystal triode and the iotatron. Sad face.
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First Single-Electron Transistor Works Like Tiny Etch-A-Sketch
It’s amazing what an electron can do. Researchers, lead by a team from the University of Pittsburg, have built the world’s first operational single-electron transistor, the SketchSET, which could become an essential component of all sorts of futuristic technologies; from super-dense, high-capacity solid-state drives to quantum processors.