Process of silicon transistors developing flaws over time as they are used
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Transistor aging (sometimes called silicon aging) is the process of silicon transistors developing flaws over time as they are used, degrading performance and reliability, and eventually failing altogether. Despite the name, similar mechanisms may affect transistors made of any kind of semiconductor. Manufacturers compensate for this (as well as manufacturing defects) by running chips at slower speeds than they are initially capable of (underclocking).
Transistoraging (sometimes called silicon aging) is the process of silicon transistors developing flaws over time as they are used, degrading performance...
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information technology. The onset of the Information Age has been linked to the development of the transistor in 1947 and the optical amplifier in 1957. These...
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valves. The first semiconductor transistors in the late 1940s were followed by the silicon-based MOSFET (MOS transistor) and monolithic integrated circuit...
until the transistor provided smaller and higher quality amplifiers in the 1950s. The first working transistor was a point-contact transistor invented...
physics and electrical engineering which uses active devices such as transistors, diodes, and integrated circuits to control and amplify the flow of electric...
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and their discovery of the transistor effect". Partly as a result of Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 1960s...
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oscilloscope into the transistorage (only a Nuvistor ceramic tube was used for the vertical amp input). A year and a half later, the all-transistor model 321A came...
require replacement. Modern designs now use solid state technology (transistors) to perform the same function that the relays perform in electromechanical...
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