MANHASSET, NY — Japan-based Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. has announced a transistor structure with standby consumption current (off-leak current) by over 90 percent compared to previous transistors.

Transistors are tiny electronic components that act as switches and amplifiers, and they dwell at the heart of modern technology. In simple terms, a transistor can turn a flow of electricity on or off ...

As downward scaling of transistors continues, optimizing power consumption for mobile devices is a major concern. Power consumption consists of two components: dynamic and static. Dynamic (active) ...

In one of the biggest advancements in fundamental transistor design, Intel Corporation revealed that it is using two dramatically new materials to build the insulating walls and switching gates of its ...

Semiconductor leakage paths can cause excessive quiescent current (also called ground current) in remote sensing applications. These leakage paths shorten battery life and become more critical because ...

The new transistors (above) have vertical current-carrying channels. In older designs (inset), the channels lie flat under the gates. In an effort to keep squeezing more components onto silicon chips, ...