Transistors are tiny electronic components that act as switches and amplifiers, and they dwell at the heart of modern technology. In simple terms, a transistor can turn a flow of electricity on or off ...

(For this breakthrough, the trio would share the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.) Following the point-contact transistor, in 1948 Shockley debuted the junction transistor, a more robust transistor made ...

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