NextBigFuture

SemiQon Cryogenic Transistor Breakthrough for 1,000X Less Heat and Uses 99.9% Less Power

Finnish company Semiqon has developed a transistor that operates with virtually zero heat dissipation. They have made silicon-based quantum processors to make future quantum computers more affordable, ...
NextBigFuture

Breakthrough Pseudo CMOS Transistors for 1000 Times More Efficient Computing

As transistors are scaled to smaller dimensions, their static power increases. Combining two-dimensional (2D) channel materials with complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) logic architectures ...
ExtremeTech

Researchers create CMOS-compatible, 30nm programmable graphene transistor

Electronic engineers at Japan's GNC and AIST research centers have successfully created graphene transistors that are constructed and operated in a way that redefines 50 years of transistor ...
EDN

Novaled reports CMOS-type organic transistors

LONDON — Novaled AG (Dresden, Germany) has developed p- and n-dopants to enable the development of p- and n-type field-effect transistors based on a single pentacene semiconductor layer. This ...
EDN

Beyond vanilla CMOS: are III/V compounds coming into the mainstream?

AmberWave Systems is a company with a pretty unusual business model. As president Richard Faubert describes it, the company mines—the word “trolls” also comes to mind—university thesis projects for ...
Nanowerk

CMOS Technology Explained

Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) technology is a vital part of modern electronics, used in designing and manufacturing integrated circuits (ICs) that power many digital devices. CMOS ...
Semiconductor Engineering

What’s After CMOS?

Chipmakers continue to scale the CMOS transistor to finer geometries, but the question is for how much longer. The current thinking is that the CMOS transistor could scale at least to the 3nm node in ...
Electronic Design

How Deeply Depleted Channel Transistors Work

SuVolta has revealed a bit more about their Deeply Depleted Channel (DDC) low power, CMOS transistor technology designed for embedded SoCs (System-on-chip). SuVolta's PowerShrink transistor (see DDC ...