One of the Thinnest Transistor Interfaces Yet Could Reshape Future Chips

One of the Thinnest Transistor Interfaces Yet Could Reshape Future Chips

A sub-nanometer buffer improved atomically thin transistors, pushing future chips closer to silicon’s limits. A transistor channel only one atom thick sounds like an ideal foundation for the next generation of computer chips. But surrounding that channel with the materials needed to control it can erase much of its advantage. Researchers at National Yang Ming [...]

TSMC & Researchers Make Big Breakthrough In Chip Transistor Technology As Part Of Push Towards Developing Sub-1-nanometer Technologies

The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), in partnership with the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) in Taipei, Taiwan, has made a key breakthrough for next-generation transistor design. TSMC and the NYCU have demonstrated that instead of focusing on depositing new materials on the transistor channel, a better approach is to engineer the channel material to create a buffer before adding the insulating material and then …