Which is why NASA's Ames Research Center is going back to the future with its new vacuum transistor -- a nanometer-scale vacuum tube that, in early testing, has reached speeds of up to 460GHz.

Now, researchers at NASA believe they may have discovered a way to kickstart transistors again -- by using technology from the earliest days of computing: The vacuum tube. No, really. Stop laughing.

The nano vacuum tube transistor proposed by Prof. Jang’s research team is highly compatible with existing complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processes and can be easily manufactured, ...

Vacuum-channel transistor NASA scientists might be onto a speed-boosting solution by re-mixing vacuum tube technology as a vacuum-channel transistor.

From tubes to transistors In this week's 'An eye for an i', we will take a look at one of the first devices that made the transformation from vacuum tubes to transistors ...

Kim said, “The emission of this electron system into vacuum channels could enable a new class of low-power, high-speed transistors, and it’s also compatible with current silicon electronics, ...

On this 60 th anniversary of the first issue of EDN , we look back to 1956 when the vacuum tube was at its maturity and transistors were about to begin their domination. The vacuum tube features of ...

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Before there was the transistor, there was the tube. Lots of them. Televisions, radios — if it was electronic, it had a tube in it. Then, in the 1950s and 60s, transistors ...