The cloudy crystal ball: electronic devices for logic

Author: Keyes R. W.

Source: Philosophical Magazine B, Volume 81, Number 9, 1 September 2001 , pp. 1315-1330(16)

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Abstract:

The invention of the transistor revolutionized electronics and brought new attention to solid-state physics. Transistors soon replaced relays and vacuum tubes in the logic of computing machinery and have made computers with many millions of devices possible. In the half-century since the advent of the transistor, scientists have invented and extolled a variety of other devices as replacements for it in electronic logic circuits. None has had any impact on computing. Only transistors provide the high gain with three-terminal control that is essential to the working of very large digital systems.

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2001-09-01

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