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Owen Hughes

Unique transistor 'could change the world of electronics' thanks to nanosecond-scale switching speeds and refusal to wear out

Computer circuit board with micro-chips, transistors and resistors.

Researchers have developed a new type of transistor that they say could "change the world of electronics" within the next two decades.

The new transistor is built using an ultrathin material created from stacked, parallel layers of boron nitride, which researchers claim can switch between positive and negative charges in nanoseconds and withstand over 100 billion cycles without wearing down.

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