Solid-state electronics are semiconductor electronics: electronic equipment that use semiconductor devices such as transistors, diodes and integrated circuits. The term is also used as an adjective fo
An integrated circuit (IC) on a printed circuit board. This is called a solid-state circuit because all of the electrical activity in the circuit occurs within solid materials.
Garner Ironclad, a solid state media erasure and destruction verification system at DEF-TECH Bharat 2026 exhibition, KTPO, Bengaluru
A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power. It is one of the basic building blocks of modern electronics. It is composed of semiconductor material, u
Solid-state electronics
…Solid-state electronics are semiconductor electronics: electronic equipment that use semiconductor devices such as transistors, diodes and integrated circuits (ICs). The term is also used as an adjective for devices in which semiconductor electronics that have no moving parts…
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld proposed the concept of a field-effect transistor in 1925.
John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain at Bell Labs in 1948; Bardeen and Brattain invented the point-contact transistor in 1947 and Shockley invented the bipolar junction transistor in 1948.
A replica of the first working transistor, a point-contact transistor invented in 1947