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Rensselaer student invents alternative to silicon chip

May 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 98 vote(s) | pda version

Even before Weixiao Huang received his doctorate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his new transistor captured the attention of some of the biggest American and Japanese automobile companies. The 2008 ...


NXP announces world's smallest high-performance MOSFET

Feb 25, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 4 vote(s) | pda version

NXP Semiconductors, the independent company founded by Philips, today announced a new range of small signal MOSFET devices housed in one of the world’s smallest packages, the SOT883. Boasting an ultra-small 1.0 x 0.6 mm footprint, ...


SEMATECH and NIST Collaborate on Chemical Analysis of Advanced Gate Dielectrics

May 30, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 2 vote(s) | pda version

Nitrogen incorporation in thin HfO2/SiO2 film systems representative of high-k gate dielectric layers in advanced metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) has been ...


Researchers shine light on atomic transistor

Nov 22, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 31 vote(s) | pda version

Researchers from TU Delft and the FOM Foundation (Netherlands) have successfully measured transport through a single atom in a transistor. This research offers new insights into the behaviour of so-called dopant ...


Sematech to Investigate Alternate Channel Materials for Advanced Microchips

Mar 09, 2006 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 3 vote(s) | pda version

Pushed by the scaling limits of silicon-based devices, Sematech engineers have launched a project to investigate alternative materials to Si in MOSFET channels, the critical pathways that allow electrical signals to flow ...


New design for transistors powered by single electrons

Feb 02, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 25 vote(s) | pda version

Scientists have demonstrated the first reproducible, controllable silicon transistors that are turned on and off by the motion of individual electrons. The experimental devices, designed and fabricated at NTT ...


Freescale creates first commercially viable GaAs MOSFET device

Jan 30, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 14 vote(s) | pda version

Freescale Semiconductor has developed the industry's first device that combines the high performance of gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductor compounds with the advantages of traditional metal oxide semiconductor field effect ...


Penn-State Philips CMOS transistor model adopted as industry-wide standard for future nanometer chip design

Dec 20, 2005 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 6 vote(s) | pda version

Philips and the Pennsylvania State University today announced that their jointly developed PSP (Penn State Philips) complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) transistor model has been selected by the Compact ...


UMC Develops Ultimate Spacer Process to Enhance MOSFET Device Performance for 65nm and Beyond

Dec 07, 2005 | User rating: 2 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

UMC today announced that its Central Research and Development Division (CRD) has successfully developed an Ultimate Spacer Process (USP) technology that simultaneously enhances NMOS and PMOS device performance. Devices fabricated ...


World's first SOI MOSFET with crystalline Gd2O3

Nov 28, 2005 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 2 vote(s) | pda version

Researchers at AMICA have successfully fabricated the world's first MOSFETs on ultra-thin-body silicon-on-insulator (SOI) material with a crystalline gadolinium oxide (Gd2O3) gate dielectric.


Sensors, a smart dose of medicine for cancer treatment

Nov 02, 2005 | pda version

New sensor systems being developed will help treat cancer and improve the accuracy and reliability of existing radiation treatments. They should help improve patient care and outcomes. The results will go straight to commercialisation ...


NEC Develops Highly-Reliable CMOSFET with Phase Controlled NiSi (NFET) & Ni3Si (PFET) Gate Electrode

Jun 16, 2005 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 1 vote(s) | pda version

NEC Corporation ("NEC") today announced the development of a transistor featuring a new gate stack structure using a hafnium ("Hf")-based, high-k dielectric and a metal gate electrode, which simultaneously realize significant ...


Freescale, University of Florida advance Moore's law

Jun 01, 2005 | pda version

Industry’s first double-gate transistor model enables smaller, more powerful silicon products that use less energy

Freescale Semiconductor and the University of Florida have created the industry's ...


New mathematical model better describes transistor behavior

May 11, 2005 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 3 vote(s) | pda version

Penn State and Philips researchers have merged the best features of their respective approaches to produce a new mathematical model that describes the behavior of the MOS transistor in a wide class of integrated circuits ...


SEMATECH Identifies Top Technical Challenges for 2006; Adds Transistor Scaling

Apr 20, 2005 | User rating: 1.5 / 5 after 2 vote(s) | pda version

SEMATECH today announced its Top Technical Challenges for 2006, continuing to underscore advanced gate stack, 193 nm immersion and EUV lithography, mask infrastructure, and low-k dielectrics with process compatibility. Consortium ...


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