This video explains how transistors work as switches and amplifiers in electronic circuits. Transistors control the flow of ...

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One of the joys of writing up the entries for the 2025 Component Abuse Challenge has come in finding all the different alternative uses for the humble transistor. This building block of all modern ...

A Planet Analog article, “2N3904: Why use a 60-year-old transistor?” by Bill Schweber, inspired some interest in this old transistor and how it’s commonly used, and if any uncommon uses might exist.

A team of scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have created an ultrathin transistor unlike ...