Applied Materials Introduces Deposition Systems for Angstrom-Era Logic Chips

Chipmaking systems create the smallest atomic-scale features in 3D Gate-All-Around transistorsPrecision™ Selective Nitride PECVD preserves ...
Nature

Negative Capacitance Field-Effect Transistors and Ferroelectric Materials

Negative capacitance field-effect transistors (NCFETs) represent a transformative approach in the design of low-power electronic devices. By integrating ferroelectric materials into the gate structure ...
Nanowerk

The negative-capacitance transistor - Building an ideal MOSFET

(Nanowerk News) As our electronics continue to proliferate and become more sophisticated, the race continues for more power efficient and scaleable semiconductor devices — components that use minimal ...
Hackaday

Smaller Is Sometimes Better: Why Electronic Components Are So Tiny

Over the past century, electronic engineering has improved massively. In the 1920s, a state-of-the-art AM radio contained several vacuum tubes, a few enormous inductors, capacitors and resistors, ...

Applied Materials surges as it unveils new chipmaking systems

Applied Materials (AMAT) jumps on new atomic-precision tools for 2nm gate-all-around AI chips—see how they boost ...
EDN

Power dissipation in portables: Design considerations using low-power CMOS ICs

When a CMOS circuit is in an idle state there is still some static power dissipation–a result of leakage current through nominally off transistors. Both nMOS and pMOS transistors used in CMOS logic ...
EDN

Research Into and Uses of Terahertz Switching-Speed Transistors

Recent advances in semiconductor technology have pushed the concept of transistors with switching speeds greater than one terahertz, or one trillion cycles per second, closer to reality. Transistors ...
Electronic Design

The Transistor Enters the Nanosheet Era

How does a nanosheet transistor compare with a FinFET? Issues involved in developing and manufacturing nanosheet transistors. Benefits of adopting nanosheet transistors in chip design. It’s the end of ...
Semiconductor Engineering

What’s Different About Next-Gen Transistors

After nearly a decade and five major nodes, along with a slew of half-nodes, the semiconductor manufacturing industry will begin transitioning from finFETs to gate-all-around stacked nanosheet ...
Electronic Design

76 Years of the Transistor: Then, Now, and What’s to Come

How the first transistor evolved to meet new and emerging application demands as underlying structures transform and multi-die systems gained further adoption. How transistors have enabled the ...