Most lab testing quietly inflates 2D transistor performance, research reveals

For nearly two decades, two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have been studied as a complement or possible successor to silicon transistors, promising smaller, faster and more energy-efficient ...
Ars Technica

A transistor made using two atomically thin materials sets size record

The ever-shrinking features of transistors etched in silicon have always required pushing the cutting edge of manufacturing technology. The discovery of atomically thin materials like graphene and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Improving Gate All Around Transistor Performance Using Virtual Process Window Exploration

As transistor sizes shrink, short channel effects make it more difficult for transistor gates to turn a transistor ON and OFF [1]. One method to overcome this problem is to move away from planar ...
Electronic Design

Surrounding Gate Transistors May Improve DRAM

DRAM makes up the bulk of non-volatile memory in computer systems. Much has been done lately to mix non-volatile storage with DRAM. However, DRAM’s performance and capacity still win out when it comes ...
ExtremeTech

What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

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EDN

Digital Electronics Course – Part 5: Logic gates

A logic gate is an electronic component (or set of them) that performs a logic operation, in which the binary values 0 and 1 are represented with two different voltage values, as seen in the previous ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Efficacy of Transistor Interleaving in DICE Flip-Flops at a 22 nm FD SOI Technology Node

Researchers present 3 DICE IFF designs with transistor interleaving, the CnRx construct, and the guard gate technique at the 22 nm FD SOI technology node. April 25th, 2022 - By: Technical Paper Link ...
Nanowerk

Common lab design inflates 2D transistor performance by up to six times

Lab architecture used to test 2D semiconductors artificially boosts performance metrics, making it harder to assess whether these materials can truly replace silicon.
Compound Semiconductor

Has 2D transistors' performance been inflated?

The research 'Impact of Contact Gating on Scaling of Monolayer 2D Transistors Using a Symmetric Dual-Gate Structure' appeared ...
EDN

Intel to use new SOI-based transistors for low-power processors in future

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — In a move to address the power concerns of future microprocessors, Intel Corp. here today announced a new transistor structure that marks the company's initial use of high-k ...