From the outside, transistors seem so simple and straightforward. But inside, they’re actually a mess. If you could watch them working at the level of atoms, you’d see the electronic equivalent of a game of bumper cars. Electrons moving through even the best transistor channel can’t go in straight lines. Instead they’re buffeted continually by […]
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In Flight: NASA astronaut Andrew Feustel installs a materials science experiment pallet on the outsideof the International Space Station. The box includes three prototypes of integrated circuit spacecraft. The spacecraft prototype at right was photographed before installation on the space station. Photos: left, NASA; right, Zac Manchester Gravity may be woven into the very fabric
Image: PIcomEtrIx If you’re of a certain age, you may remember those miraculous-sounding “X-ray specs” advertised in comic books. They’d let you see through walls, boxes, and—best of all, for a teenager, anyway—clothing. They were bogus, of course. But technology is finally on the verge of giving us all those capabilities, and more, albeit in
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There were few bright spots in the pandemic summer of 2020. One of the most dazzling was the flight of U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station and their safe return to Earth aboard a commercial spacecraft from SpaceX. This demonstration was significant for many reasons, one of which was that it suggested a future
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Photo: joSon These days, in developed countries, you can’t so much as rent a car or buy a shirt without setting in motion a burst of digital information spanning hundreds of kilometers. Data stream toward a waiting credit card database through the air, over cables, and back again, bouncing and meeting interference, and encountering other
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Image: Retro File; Image manipulation: Richard Tuschman More than a century ago, electrical engineering was so much simpler. Basically, it referred to the technical end of telegraphy, trolley cars, or electric power. Nevertheless, here and there members of that fledgling profession were quietly setting the stage for an era in industrial history unparalleled for its
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This is the digital age. From flashy cell phones, games, PCs, and PDAs to the behind-the-scenes automotive, medical, and Internet components, progress in digital computing owes much to the software that helps designers create and connect millions of transistors. But with the trend toward mixed-signal chips in a communications-centric world, everyone is finding the need
Invention and Inventors: In Paris, shortly after World War II, two German scientists, Herbert Mataré (above) and Heinrich Welker, invented the “tran- sistron,” a solid-state amplifier remark- ably similar to the transistor developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories at about the same time. In this X-ray image of a commercial transistron built in the early 1950s,
