NEW ORLEANS — Intel Corp. plans to incorporate “sleep transistors” onto future-generation microprocessors to push clock frequencies higher and help tame the worsening leakage current that threatens ...

Research to be reported jointly by IMEC and Applied Materials at the International Electron Devices Meeting next week has indicated that a seemingly minor improvement in the front-end-of-line process ...

Duke engineers show how a common device architecture used to test 2D transistors overstates their performance prospects in real-world devices.

Computers, despite all their apparent complexity, are basically just a large number of electronic switches, flicking on and off in the right order to process digital information. Semiconductor ...

For almost two decades, scientists have been trying to move beyond silicon, the material ...

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

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

In one of the biggest advancements in fundamental transistor design, Intel Corporation revealed that it is using two dramatically new materials to build the insulating walls and switching gates of its ...

Growing concerns about energy efficiency have led to the development of electronics with higher power density. In grid-connected and industrial applications, such as AC motor control, uninterruptible ...

Physicists in the UK have found a way to overcome a major barrier blocking the use of graphene in electronic devices – how to prevent current leaking through a device when it is switched off. Graphene ...