Inside computer chips are billions of tiny transistors made from silicon. But the material is approaching its limits. In an ...

The computer chips inside our phones, laptops and other electronic devices contain billions of tiny switches called transistors. These transistors are usually made from silicon, the material that has ...

Transistors etched into the latest processor designs now measure just a few nanometers across, placing them well below the ...

A simple surface coating could make it easier to reliably make parts of next-generation computer chips using silicon and a ...

The global semiconductor market is approaching US$1 trillion in annual sales, driven by growing demand for faster computers, ...

As the global semiconductor industry enters the so-called 2-nanometer process era, the actual size of transistors—the core ...

Simulations show which 2D transistor designs best control leakage as devices shrink, helping guide future chip scaling below ...

The silicon that forms the foundation of most computer chips has fundamental limits to how much power it can manage, which ...

New chipmaking systems boost the energy-efficient performance of Gate-All-Around transistors and wiring at 2nm and beyond Viva™ pure radical treatment smoothens GAA silicon nanosheets with ...

A powerful light source bigger than a London double-decker bus has set a record: it can create structures on a silicon wafer that are just 8 nanometres (nm) wide. Those are thought to be the smallest ...

A vacuum channel transistor controls electrons at the cathode to suppress gate leakage, letting it work inside amplifiers and NAND and NOR logic gates. (Nanowerk News) A research team in China has ...

The big picture: In a university lab in Adelaide, Australia, a group of engineers has developed something rare in semiconductor testing – a technique that can observe a processor's internal workings ...