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IEEE Spectrum April 2005 Linda Geppert	Power to the Molecules A "crossbar latch" supplies the missing piece for a nanosize alternative to the transistor. Now, researchers at Hewlett-Packard plan to knit them into a huge circuit, hoping to put the technology on the market in about 10 years.
InternetNews March 15, 2005 Michael Singer	HP Plots Its Nano Course Company believes in moving computing beyond silicon to the world of molecular-scale electronics.
InternetNews January 16, 2007 David Needle	HP Claims Chip Advance Researchers say nanotechnology has let them pack many more transistors into chips.
IndustryWeek December 1, 2002 Patricia Panchak	Technologies Of The Year -- Molecular Electronics Hewlett-Packard breakthrough could extend limits of silicon chips.
Technology Research News February 12, 2003 Eric Smalley	Logic scheme gains power Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have pushed an alternative computer chip architecture a step forward by finding a way to refresh the short-lived signals the scheme uses to represent the 1s and 0s of digital information.
Technology Research News September 8, 2004 Eric Smalley	Chip Architecture Uses Nanowires Nanoelectronics could eventually replace today's silicon chipmaking techniques when today's techniques run their course in a decade or two.
Technology Research News January 28, 2004 Eric Smalley	Chemicals map nanowire arrays There are two challenges to getting nanowire arrays ready for prime time -- finding ways of accessing any particular nanowire junction, and connecting the devices to the outside world. Chemically modifying the right junctions could solve both problems.
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Liu et al.	MEMS Switches for Low-Power Logic A modern twist on a trusted old technology -- the electromechanical relay -- could lead to ultralow-power chips
Scientific American October 17, 2005 Charles Q. Choi	Transistor Flow Control At the heart of modern electronics are transistors, which act like valves to direct the flow of electrons. Now researchers have created the first transistors that electrically control molecules instead.
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 R. Stanley Williams	How We Found the Missing Memristor The memristor -- the functional equivalent of a synapse -- could revolutionize circuit design
Chemistry World July 3, 2012 Simon Perks	Ultrafast transistors created in a vacuum Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh, US, have come up with a new type of transistor that uses a vacuum to conduct electrons a hundred times faster than the conventional solid-state version.
Technology Research News March 12, 2003	Cold logic promises speedy devices Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory have made a superconducting logic circuit that computes very quickly and requires little power.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003	Single electrons perform logic The ultimate in transistors, which turn on and off in response to a flow of electricity, is a device that can be tripped by a single electron. Researchers from Hokkaido University have put together an AND logic circuit made from four single-electron tunneling transistors.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 Eric Smalley	Nanowires make flexible circuits Nanowires might one day be used to make microscopic machines. But before then they could help liberate computer circuits from the rigid, expensive confines of silicon chips. A process that makes thin films from semiconductor nanowires improves the prospects for plastic electronics and electronic paper.
InternetNews October 21, 2005 David Needle	HP Labs Spurred by Past Innovations A mini-museum resides in the halls of Hewlett Packard Labs.
CIO November 15, 2001 Stephanie Overby	Little Giants The transistor's evolution to modern-day silicon chip spans more than 60 years...
Technology Research News January 26, 2005	Metals Speed Clear Circuits Researchers have improved the performance of a new type of transparent transistor. The zinc tin oxide thin-film transistor is transparent, difficult to scratch, and conducts electricity an order of magnitude faster than previous efforts using the same class of material.
Chemistry World November 27, 2006 Simon Hadlington	Getting the Dope on a Single Atom of Dopant Scientists have successfully probed the electronic and quantum mechanical properties of a single atom of dopant in a silicon transistor. The research could provide important information necessary for the development of quantum computers.
IEEE Spectrum July 2012 Miguel Miranda	The Threat of Semiconductor Variability As transistors shrink, the problem of chip variability grows
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 Neil Savage	Engineers Evolve Transistors for Next-Gen Chips Evolutionary algorithms lead to new logic and memory that may smooth the way as CMOS nears its size limits
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Rahul Sarpeshkar	Brain Power Neuromorphic engineering has been around for 20 years, and its first fruits are finally approaching the market. The likely first application is bionics.
Chemistry World January 5, 2011 Jon Cartright	Silk woven into transistors Researchers in Sweden and Spain have created transistors woven from modified silk fibres. The breakthrough bodes well for a new generation of electronic circuits that can be incorporated into fabrics or inserted into biological environments.
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Keane & Kim	Transistor Aging Measuring the degradation of microprocessors is tricky. Doing it better would unleash more processing power.
Technology Research News March 23, 2005	Layers promise cheap circuits The challenge is making organic transistors that work well electronically.
Technology Research News June 4, 2003	DNA part makes transistor Researchers from the University of Lecce in Italy and the University of Bologna in Italy have produced a transistor made from a derivative of one of the four bases that make up DNA.
InternetNews March 28, 2005 Michael Singer	DARPA Calls on HP For Battlefield Duty A new multi-million dollar grant will focus on improving the reliability of the Internet in military situations.
Wired July 2000 Rick Overton	Molecular Electronics Will Change Everything The Next Big Thing is very, very small. Picture trillions of transistors, processors so fast their speed is measured in terahertz, infinite capacity, zero cost. It's the dawn of a new technological revolution - and the death of silicon. Can you say Thiophene Ethynylene Valley?
Fast Company Victor Kotsev	HP's Post-Electronic Solution To Tomorrow's Huge Data The HP Machine solves the problem by abandoning the electron -- at least for some key purposes. Memory systems are moving to the ion.
Chemistry World February 5, 2007 Lionel Milgrom	Hafnium Oxide Helps Make Chips Smaller and Faster Intel and IBM have announced that they will use dramatically different materials to build smaller, faster transistors for their next generation of chips.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Samuel K. Moore	Masters of Memory Swiss firm Innovative Silicon crams 5 megabytes of RAM into the space of one. Their chip is called called Z-RAM, and if it grabs even a little piece of the on-chip memory market, it will change the ground rules for microprocessor design and will quickly become a company to be reckoned with.
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Rachel Courtland	Six Paths to Longer Battery Life These six technologies could save on smartphone power
Industrial Physicist Konstantin Likharev	Hybrid Semiconductor-Molecular Nanoelectronics Many physicists and engineers believe that the impending crisis due to limitations in CMOS technology may be resolved only by a radical paradigm shift from purely CMOS technology to hybrid semiconductor-molecular circuits.
Chemistry World April 28, 2011 Mike Brown	Carbon nanotubes in large panel displays US researchers have incorporated carbon nanotubes into organic light-emitting transistors to create devices that rival the performance of their silicon counterparts.
Technology Research News February 26, 2003	Stamp bangs out plastic circuits Today's transistors are etched from silicon wafers in a multi-step process that involves laser beams, chemicals and clean rooms. A simpler process would make for cheaper computer chips, and a gentler process would allow for transistors of different materials.
Technology Research News November 5, 2003	Process prints silicon circuits Researchers from Princeton University have demonstrated a way to use a flexible stamp to print thin-film transistors. The researchers' eventual goal is to directly print electronics on flexible surfaces.
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Sarah Adee	Transistors Go Vertical The semiconductor industry fights silicon sprawl by building up, not out. Today's CMOS transistor is planar, but chip makers are exploring more power-efficient three-dimensional structures as well as a planar structure with two gates.
The Motley Fool March 30, 2006 Jack Uldrich	IBM's Teeny Tiny Transistors Big Blue's new nanocircuit suggests that carbon nanotubes will soon be employed in hybrid computer circuit devices.
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Wager & Hoffman	Thin, Fast, and Flexible Semiconductors Amorphous oxide semiconductors promise to make flat-panel displays faster and sharper than today's silicon standby.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Bohr et al.	The High-k Solution Microprocessors coming out this fall are the result of the first big redesign in CMOS transistors since the late 1960s.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Holonyak & Feng	The Transistor Laser Ultrafast transistors that output optical and electrical signals open a new computing frontier.
Technology Research News December 17, 2003	Organic transistors get small Researchers from Cornell University have shown that it is possible to fabricate useful organic thin film transistors that have a channel length as small as 30 nanometers. The smaller the channel, the faster the transistor. Previously, organic TFT channel lengths were limited to about 100 nm.
The Motley Fool January 29, 2007 Jack Uldrich	IBM and Intel Install a New Gatekeeper Changes to transistor components will keep Moore's Law running smoothly. Which companies stand to come out on top? Investors, take note.
IEEE Spectrum November 2011 Ahmed & Schuegraf	Transistor Wars Rival architectures face off in a bid to keep Moore's Law alive. In May, Intel announced the most dramatic change to the architecture of the transistor since the device was invented.
Technology Research News March 9, 2005	Nanotubes Boost Molecular Devices Researchers have constructed an extremely small transistor from a pair of single-walled carbon nanotubes and organic molecules. The tiny transistor could eventually be used in ultra-low-power electronics.
Technology Research News February 11, 2004 Eric Smalley	Noise boosts nanotube antennas Sometimes adding a little noise can help a signal come through loud and clear. This is true for the neural network between your ears, and it turns out to also be true for carbon nanotubes. The result could be better cell phones, chemical detectors and video screens.
Technology Research News January 28, 2004	Nanotubes tied to silicon circuit Connecting minuscule nanotube transistors to traditional silicon transistors enables the atomic-scale electronics to communicate with existing electronic equipment.
BusinessWeek April 18, 2005 Adam Aston	The Coming Chip Revolution Facing the limits of silicon, scientists are turning to carbon nanotubes. But even with a reliable supply of tubes, scaling up production to supply a vast global industry will take years.
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Sally Adee	The Fastest, the Smallest, and the Strangest at IEDM This year's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, as usual, is largely a race to the bottom
Technology Research News June 4, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Plastic transistors go vertical Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England have brought inexpensive, practical organic transistors a step closer to your grocery cart by devising a pair of processes that form small, vertical transistors from layers of printed polymer.
Chemistry World December 10, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Flexible organic flash memory Researchers have succeeded in making an elusive component of organic electronics: a flash memory transistor that can be incorporated into a thin, flexible plastic sheet.