From the course: The Challenge of Scale: Semiconductor Innovation and Manufacturing
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Beyond Moore's law – What's next in ICs?
From the course: The Challenge of Scale: Semiconductor Innovation and Manufacturing
Beyond Moore's law – What's next in ICs?
(bright music) - Are there limits? At some point, are we going to get to the end of the scaling? And if we do get to the end of the scaling, what's next? Is it a brand new kind of technology? Is it just rethinking the way that we do chips entirely? - We are really getting to that atomic limit. And we've had to move away already from just shrinking these lateral planer transistors. And the industry has gone three dimensional. So transistors are now three dimensional structures, as opposed to just features on the plane of the wafer. Right now, we are looking at thin transistors. So the channel is actually going through this ridge that allows for better gait control over the channel. That's kind of the biggest challenge as we scale down. That gait needs to be able to control the on/off switching of this device. And so the fins got us there, and are prominent in almost every technology, advanced technology node today. But even that is not enough. And so we are now going to gait all around…
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