'Dirty little secret' threatens Moore's Law
05 March, 2003Today's state-of-the-art chips have transistors roughly a micrometre in overall length. But this very success has brought the chipmakers to the brink of a steep, new obstacle to further gains in performance
Superconducting nanowires help in study of phase transistors
05 August, 2002By creating superconducting nanowires using carbon nanotube molecules, researchers at the University of Illinois are investigating just how small a wire can become and remain a superconductor
Nanospintronics
03 July, 2002Physicists at the Institute for Microstructural Sciences (Ottawa) have created a prototype of a single-spin transistor, that consists of a quantum dot connected to spin-polarised leads.
Charger MOSFETs
11 December, 2001Four PowerPAK 1212-8 MOSFET devices designed for battery charger switching and protection applications have been announced by Siliconix.
Intel transistor raises speed limit
29 November, 2001Intel has unveiled a design for transistors which it says will operate at speeds hundreds of times faster than today's production devices.
Bipolar Power Transistor
13 November, 2001STMicroelectronics has introduced the first in a family of high-gain bipolar power transistors that feature low saturation voltage, making it suitable for low-voltage switching applications.
Gate Oxide Fabrication Method for MOS Devices
13 December, 2000In an increasingly mobile world of go-anywhere, do-everything personal products, the semiconductor industry is locked into a search for technologies that support lower power consumption and enhanced reliability in highly integrated LSI.
