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Transistor 'design limitation' actually improves performance, scientists find

What many engineers once saw as a flaw in organic electronics could actually make these devices more stable and reliable, ...
Nanowerk

Researchers find that a 'design limitation' in transistors actually improves performance

What many engineers once saw as a flaw in organic electronics could actually make these devices more stable and reliable, ...
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Researchers achieve record-breaking RF GaN-on-Si transistor performance for high-efficiency 6G power amplifiers

Imec researchers have set a new benchmark in RF transistor performance for mobile applications. They present a gallium nitride (GaN) MOSHEMT (metal-oxide-semiconductor high-electron-mobility ...
EDN

RF GaN-on-Si transistor sets new performance benchmark

Imec claims a new benchmark for mobile RF transistor performance. The approach, based on a gallium nitride (GaN) metal-oxide semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistor (MOSHEMT) on silicon (Si), ...

2D materials boost p-type transistor performance, paving way for future tech

After dominating the electronics industry for decades, conventional silicon-based transistors are gradually approaching their ...
Electronic Design

Connecting Transistors— and Measuring Their Performance

Transistors are a dime a dozen—or maybe a dime a billion. When it comes to designing a state-of-the-art mobile device or a high-performance server, it’s how you put the transistors together that ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Challenges And Outlook Of ATE Testing For 2nm SoCs

The transition to the 2nm technology node introduces unprecedented challenges in Automated Test Equipment (ATE) bring-up and manufacturability. As semiconductor devices scale down, the complexity of ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Improving Gate All Around Transistor Performance Using Virtual Process Window Exploration

As transistor sizes shrink, short channel effects make it more difficult for transistor gates to turn a transistor ON and OFF [1]. One method to overcome this problem is to move away from planar ...
IndustryWeek

Transistor Performance: High Potential For Silicon-Germanium?

Thinking of transistors for mobile electronics? Researchers have developed silicon-germanium (SiGe) transistors with record-setting performance, low energy consumption-and no manufacturing cost ...
Forbes

IBM Goes Vertical To Scale Transistors

At the December 2021 IEDM conference (a conference for people who design advanced semiconductors), IBM announced it was turning transistors on their heads to keep Moore’s Law scaling alive. The new ...
University of Surrey

Scientists find that a ‘design limitation’ in transistors actually improves performance

The key to understanding the improved stability in the devices was enabled by exploring the novel ‘multimodal transistor’ ...