But they have a rich history, going back through the silicon era to germanium junction transistors, and thence to the original devices. if you’ve ever looked at the symbol for a transistor and ...

But they have a rich history, going back through the silicon era to germanium junction transistors, and thence to the original devices. if you’ve ever looked at the symbol for a transistor and ...

Many people giving talks had complained about the current germanium transistors -- they had a bad habit of not working at high temperatures. Silicon, since it's right above germanium on the ...

This was the very first transistor ever made, built by Walter Brattain with the help of John Bardeen. It was made of two gold foil contacts sitting on a germanium crystal. Current coming in one ...

After the war, from the 1950s to the early 1970s, germanium's development as a semiconductor in transistors paved the way for its use in solid-state electronics, until it was replaced by its more ...

Germanium is very similar to silicon, but when one layer is grown on top of the other to form the base of the transistor, the resulting transistor can switch faster and yield higher performance.

In the case of the p-channel transistor, silicon germanium is now used instead of silicon to form the source and drain regions and to induce uniaxial compressive strain in the silicon channel ...