Today's transistors can switch millions or even billions of times per second, enabling the astonishing speeds of modern processors. Why Silicon?

Researchers have reported a black phosphorus transistor that can be used as an alternative ultra-low power switch. A research team developed a thickness-controlled black phosphorous tunnel field ...

As a result, their device could rapidly and efficiently switch between two possible logic states – making for an ideal optical transistor. Faster and less power Compared with the latest electrical ...

"Researchers have been struggling to minimize the size of the transistor to fit as many as possible on chips for semiconductors, usually using inorganic materials like silicon," Li says.

The device can be switched between its two states a trillion times a second, which is up to 1,000 times faster than today’s leading commercial transistors.