Transistors & Semiconductors (Intro to Solid-State Chemistry)
An N type and I take a P type and I put them together, some really important things happen. So important that it led to this, which is the very first transistor. That's a transistor. It's a dope semiconductor, one type, next to a dope semiconductor, another type. Now, those are the three people-- Bardeen, Shockley, and Brattain-- who won the Nobel Prize for this work. And that's the first transistor. Does anybody know how many transistors we make today? Per second. That's the only time metric we can use. Yeah, it's something around 10 trillion. We make 10 trillion transistors per second today. This is a big deal. This started it all, and it's all about chemistry and the physics of this device. This led to diodes and photodiodes. This led to the whole revolution. And what I want to point out here is that this also led-- it called on chemistry. So I love this chart. Unfortunately, they didn't update it, but this is an Intel chart that they used t...