Transistor
Türkçe: Transistör
The semiconductor element that switches or amplifies current with a small voltage and is the basic building block of every digital chip.
// EXPLANATION
Billions of transistors form logic gates in a processor. They get faster and use less energy as they shrink, but run into physical barriers such as leakage current and heat; FinFET and GAAFET are geometries developed to get past them.
// ALSO KNOWN AS
transistortransistors
// RELATED TERMS
FinFETA three-dimensional transistor structure in which the channel is raised as a fin and the gate wraps it on three sides.
GAAFET (gate-all-around)A next-generation transistor structure in which the gate surrounds the channel on all sides; the successor to FinFET, used in the 2 nm class.
Quantum tunnellingThe phenomenon in which electrons can probabilistically pass through a thin insulating barrier that classical physics says they could not cross.
SemiconductorA material whose conductivity lies between a conductor and an insulator and can be controlled by doping (such as silicon).
