Consumer electronic devices are made from materials that we have been using for more than 60 years, mainly silicon, germanium ...

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The transistors were not that good even when they did work. The first transistors were germanium which has high leakage and worse thermal properties than silicon. Early transistors were subject to ...

For his Hackaday Prize project, [Alexander] is recreating this digital camera not with an easy to use decapsulated DRAM, but with individual germanium transistors. Phototransistors are only normal ...