EDN

Silicon On Insulator CMOS Technology and New Structure Achieves Faster Operation

Renesas Technology Corp. has announced the development of an SOI (Silicon On Insulator) CMOS device technology with a new structure that achieves faster operation while reducing the operating voltage, ...
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, ...
EDN

Sony develops 2-layer transistor pixel technology for CMOS image sensors

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. has claimed the first stacked CMOS image sensor technology with a 2-layer transistor pixel. The company’s proprietary technology separates photodiodes and pixel ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Beyond CMOS: Making Way For The Next-Generation Of Semiconductor Materials

Before the advent of the cell phone, the idea of having access to a phone virtually anytime, anywhere and in a package smaller than a human hand seemed almost impossible. Today that innovation, and ...
Electronic Design

Solving the contact resistance challenge for 7nm and beyond CMOS

With the development of novel titanium-silicidation techniques, imec Ph.D. student Hao Yu presents improved source/drain contact schemes which help solving the contact resistance challenge for ...
Electronic Design

Dirt Cheap ASIC Design for Dummies (Part 3): NMOS, PMOS Silicon Design Using a Web Browser

Quickly learn what the difference is between PMOS and NMOS transistors in their structure and operation, and how CMOS works with the two in combination. Siliwiz, a free, browser-based, ASIC layout ...
sciencex

Towards a process flow for monolithic CFET transistor architectures

—The development of a process flow capable of demonstrating functionality of a monolithic complementary FET (CFET) transistor architecture is complex due to the need to vertically separate nMOS and ...
AZoNano

What is a Graphene Field Effect Transistor?

A graphene layer consists of carbon atoms linked by covalent bonds, forming a honeycomb structure. Its excellent electron mobility, chemical and physical stability, electrical and thermal conductivity ...