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transistor

[tran-zis-ter] / trænˈzɪs tər /
NOUN
personal stereo
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We followed games on transistor radios and TV, and did our best to imitate star players.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

By the 50s it was making tape recorders and transistor radios.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

They could strengthen control over the transistor gate, or they could protect the mobility of the charge carriers moving through the device.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

“Back then transistor radios were real popular,” David said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Rasheed’s watch too was sold, his old transistor radio, his pair of neckties, his shoes, and his wedding ring.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

Their computations, which are in effect the switching on and off of microscopic silicon transistors that make up a chip, are actually silent.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

MIT researchers have engineered bacteria to work like transistors, creating living "circuit boards" that can be printed onto growth material inside a Petri dish.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Using the new interface design, the researchers fabricated short-channel top-gate transistors from CVD-grown monolayer MoS2.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

"For many years, efforts to improve atomically thin transistors have largely focused on discovering better semiconductor materials," said Professor Wen-Hao Chang, the study's corresponding author from NYCU.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

It governs the behavior of transistors and integrated circuits, which are the essential components of electronic devices such as televisions and computers, and is also the basis of modern chemistry and biology.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking




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