For example, when Sony introduced
its first transistor pocket radios, it sold them to teenagers who had nothing at all, rather than adults who already owned RCA's tabletop radios.
Just as applications of electronics have expanded dramatically since
the first transistor was invented in 1948, the unique applications of photonics continue to emerge.
This year's fair is rather special because it marks the 40th anniversary of the world's
first transistor radio.
Britain's
first transistor radio, the Pam 710, was sold by Pye in 1956.
According to Shurkin, it was Bardeen and Brattain who did the key work in creating
the first transistor.
Eight days earlier, on 23 December 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, two of Shockley's colleagues at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, had unveiled a device that would change the world:
the first transistor.
The place where they bought
their first transistor, the place where they first learned to code.
Not exact matches
Transistors Later this year, Intel plans to unveil the world's first integrated circuit to contain 2 billion t
Transistors Later this year, Intel plans to unveil the world's
first integrated circuit to contain 2 billion
transistorstransistors.
The
transistor, for example, was
first brought to market in 1952, when it was used in hearing aids.
Frantz Fanon was the
first to draw attention to the fact that the
transistor receiver was one of the most important weapons in the Third World's fight for freedom.
Manchester University had been installed with the
first commercially - produced computer, the Ferranti Mark 1, and was about to develop the
first computer to use
transistors instead of valves.
First of all, check out these tech specs: DC voltage to 1000V, AC to 750V, temperature testing, diode and
transistor testing, non-contact voltage (NCV) testing, external current testing, resistance to 60 megaohm, capacitance to 60 mF, and frequency to 60 MHz!
Shrinking
transistors and the rise of microprocessors have given us immense control over the
first: the capacity to store and manipulate data that we hold in the palms of our hands would have been inconceivable a generation ago.
«Our technology, in terms of
transistor density, is at the stage of silicon technology in the late 1960s or early 1970s, when the
first microprocessors came out,» Jung says.
l Carbon nanotubes: Cees Dekker and colleagues at Delft University of Technology made the
first practical carbon nanotube
transistor in 1998, leading to the
first carbon nanotube computer (see main story).
Back when
transistor radios were hip, Mariner 4 sent these
first close - up views of Mars across 134 million miles using a puny 10 - watt radio transmitter.
l Silicon: Bell Labs developed the
first silicon
transistor in 1954, which led to the Intel 4004, the
first commercially available microprocessor, released in 1971.
«Single molecules can work as reproducible
transistors — at room temperature: Researchers are
first to reproducibly achieve the current blockade effect using atomically precise molecules at room temperature, a result that could lead to shrinking electrical components + boosting data storage + computing power.»
«Moore's law» — the rule of thumb
first posited by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965 that the number of
transistors on a chip doubles every two years — «is on our side.»
In a step toward making display screens out of a material not too different from garbage bags, researchers for the
first time have got plastic
transistors and glowing diodes to work together.
Researchers have created the
first superconducting device that behaves like a
transistor, an achievement that could provide the electronic circuitry for specialized telescope sensors and other low - temperature gadgets.
A
first step in this field is for researchers to demonstrate that single molecules can function as reproducible circuit elements such as
transistors or diodes that can easily operate at room temperature.
Easy to use and abundant, silicon has been the go - to
transistor material for decades, but in February, the world saw the
first silicene
transistor.
The
first is a new technology for creating
transistors, those tiny gates that switch electricity on and off to create digital zeroes and ones.
Although naphthalene - bithiophene has been used for
transistors and other applications since its discovery, this is the
first time it has been converted for use in energy storage.
First of all, he was the co-inventor of the
transistor, sort of revolutionized the world.
Intel's new Tri-Gate
transistors,
first demonstrated last May, replace those flat channels with thin, rectangular silicon pillars, or «fins,» that rise above the surface of the chip.
It was roughly 15 years ago that carbon nanotubes were
first fashioned into
transistors, the on - off switches at the heart of digital electronic systems.
They are the
first to apply inhomogeneous deformations, that is strain, to the conducting channel of an organic
transistor and to understand the observed effects, says Reyes - Martinez, who conducted the series of experiments as part of his doctoral work.
The results were impressive: The Number One Electronic Switching System, which DeMarco worked on; the Telstar 1, the
first orbiting communication satellite; the laser; the metal - oxide semiconductor field - effect
transistor; and the touchtone telephone.
In a collaborative international effort, American colleagues have built the
first field - effect
transistors from the new material.
A cooperation between the Technical University of Munich and the University of Regensburg on the German side and the University of Southern California (USC) and Yale University in the United States has now, for the
first time, produced a field effect
transistor made of black arsenic phosphorus.
It is not the
first single - atom
transistor, but it can be much more precisely positioned than its predecessors, potentially making it a lot more useful.
«Therefore, for the
first time, we have an optical device with output that truly resembles an electronic
transistor.»
Developing the tri-gate
transistors wasn't easy: Intel researchers built the company's
first finned
transistor in 2002, nine years before it was ready for mass - market production.
Researchers in AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland - funded materials science research centre hosted in Trinity College Dublin, have fabricated printed
transistors consisting entirely of 2 - dimensional nanomaterials for the
first time.
The research team used an atomic force microscope tip as a temperature probe to make the
first nanometer - scale temperature measurements of a working graphene
transistor.
In the
first, IBM announced a new speed record for an experimental graphene
transistor that looks exceptionally promising for processing analog signals.
He described the piezotronic
transistor -
first introduced by Zhong Lin Wang at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007 - and some of the research on nanowire arrays and 2D materials currently underway at his lab in Purdue University.
The purchase of
transistors and radios for use in the villages has increased rapidly, and thereby the government for the
first time can effectively reach the remote villages with educational programs.
They are the
first to apply inhomogeneous deformations, that is strain, to the conducting channel of an organic
transistor and to understand the observed effects, saysReyes - Martinez, who conducted the series of experiments as part of his doctoral work.
When RCA sneered at
transistor radios, Sony captured the audio market by
first putting out tinny pocket
transistors for teenagers, then expanded its base with steady technological improvement.
Her judgments resemble those offered by buggy whip makers — «Get a Horse» — when cars
first arrived or RCA Victor's evaluation of early pocket
transistor radios.
World's
first insulated gate bipolar
transistor (IGBT) module for hybrid vehicle motor control developed
[70] The electric motors use the
first automotive application of liquid cooling on both sides of the high - current
transistors, allowing greater contribution from the electric motors versus the gasoline engine.
The E-PACE is the
first Jaguar to feature the company's next - generation Thin - Film
Transistor (TFT) Head - Up Display technology.
We are the
first company worldwide able to manufacture
transistor arrays (basically a matrix of
transistors) on plastic.
Plastic Logic says that this is the
first time graphene has been used in a
transistor - based flexible device.
Plastic Logic has described the «fully industrialized plastic, flexible Organic Thin Film
Transistor (OTFT) backplane and know - how enabled the world's
first fully organic, flexible display.»
This is not the
first flexible ePaper display Sony's showcased, the company prototyping a while ago 4.8 - inch e-paper device with organic TFTs (thin - film
transistors) that use the «PXX,» an organic semiconductor material stable to oxygen, moisture and light.