What if you were to swap out the mythical germanium diodes in a Klon Centaur overdrive pedal circuit and replace them with germanium transistors? Guitar effects pedal guru Robert Keeley asked that ...

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(Nanowerk News) Over the past 70 years, the number of transistors on a chip has doubled approximately every two years – according to Moore’s Law, which is still valid today. The circuits have become ...

AF114 germanium transistors and related ones like the AF115 through AF117 were quite popular during the 1960s, but they quickly developed a reputation for failure. This is due to what should have made ...

Only 700 pedals were made, and the Dallas Rangemaster-inspired single-knob pedal equipped with OC71 germanium transistors went like hot cakes When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Transistors have come a long way. Like everything else electronic, they’ve become both better and cheaper. According to a recent IEEE article, a transistor cost about $8 in today’s money back in the ...

An important breakthrough has been reached in the development of energy-efficient electronic circuits using transistors based on germanium. A team of scientists from the Nanoelectronic Materials ...

Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich have fabricated a new type of transistor from a germanium–tin alloy that has several advantages over conventional switching elements. Charge carriers can move ...