Cornell researchers have used advanced electron microscopy to identify "mouse bite" defects in 3D transistors for the first time ...

The semiconductor chips driving modern-day computer processors are covered in billions of individual transistors, each of ...

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

A stunning new imaging breakthrough lets scientists see — and fix — the atomic flaws hiding inside tomorrow’s computer chips.

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

Adding big blocks of SRAM to collections of AI tensor engines, or better still, a waferscale collection of such engines, turbocharges AI inference, as has ...

For nearly two decades, two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have been studied as a complement or possible successor to silicon transistors, promising smaller, faster and more energy-efficient ...

A transistor is a tiny but powerful electronic component that acts like a switch or an amplifier. It is made from a semiconductor material, usually silicon, and has three legs for connection to ...

Cornell researchers have used high-resolution 3D imaging to detect, for the first time, the atomic-scale defects in computer chips that can sabotage their performance. The imaging method, which was ...

Transistors will stop shrinking after 2021, but Moore’s law will probably continue, according to the final International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS). The ITRS—which has been produced ...