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RESONANT-TUNNELLING TRANSISTOR [1 record]

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Record 1 1998-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Hardware
DEF

One of the devices first devised in the 1980s, that work on a common principle (a kind of crowd-control for electrons). The kind called "single-electron transistor", can be switched on or off by a single electron. Another, the "resonant-tunnelling transistor" can have a number of distinct states between "on" and "off".

OBS

Contrast with field-effect transistor.

Key term(s)
  • single-electron transistor
  • resonant-tunnelling transistor
  • quantum-effect transistor

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel informatique
OBS

Voir "ordinateur quantique".

Spanish

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