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(Yicai Global) June 4 -- A research team from Shanghai's Fudan University has invented a transistor structure that may shrink this type of semiconductor devices by 50 percent. The new technology could make electronic gadgets smaller, lighter, and more powerful.
Researchers were observing the surface of a silicon wafer. The new invention was published in Nature Publishing Group's science journal Nature Nanotechnology.
Transistors are used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power.
Scientists were cleaning a silicon wafer in the lab.
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