Last year Hewlett-Packard, along with a team of scientists from UCLA, proved the ability to make a switch that could be turned off and on, like a transistor, out of a single organic molecule called a catenane.

FORBES: The Science of Small

Last year Hewlett-Packard, along with a team of scientists from UCLA, proved that it is possible to make a switch that can be turned off and on, like a transistor, out of a single organic molecule called a catenane.

FORBES: The science of small

It avoids the typical binary behavior of transistors, where the transistor is simply turned on or off.

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What follows the transistor will, on this reasoning, most likely be just another kind of transistor: one that is not thrown off balance by the uncertainties of quantum physics, but instead uses them.

ECONOMIST: The transistor��s heir

Since unveiling its technology, Transphorm has showed off some products at conferences, including a diode and a 600-volt transistor, and demonstrated how these components can more efficiently boost power output.

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Transistor radios got cheaper and better and, within a decade, had killed off the thermionic-valve industry.

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The recent spurt in American productivity may be the productivity pay-off from the computer revolution, which started 50 years ago with the invention of the transistor.

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