IEEE Spectrum December 28, 2021 To recap the semiconductor stories, we have read most this year, IEEE has put together this set of highlights…read more.
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Magnons vs electrons: A new spin on computer processing
Phys.org December 1, 2021 An international team of researchers (USA – UC Berkeley, Japan) believe that to surpasses the limits of Moore’s Law magnons can be harnessed to carry information. Since the electrons themselves remain stationary as magnons pass through them, there is no heat to be dissipated, the major limiting factor in Moore’s Law. Magnons carry spins faster and with lower heat dissipation than electrons. They are starting with heterostructures of Mott insulators and heavy metals that will enable them to add and remove spin in the Mott insulator. They are fabricating a prototype Topological Magnon Transistor (TMT) in […]
Kick-starting Moore’s Law? New ‘synthetic’ method for making microchips could help
Phys.org November 18, 2019 By using specially treated silicon surfaces to tailor the crystals’ size and shape, an international team of researchers (USA – Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, Naval Research Laboratory, South Korea) has found a potentially faster and less expensive way to produce next-generation semiconductor crystals for microchips. They doused silicon substrates with phosphine gas and grew crystals on it. They discovered that the reaction of phosphine with the silicon support caused the crystals to grow as horizontal “ribbons” as opposed to the planar and triangularly shaped sheets. The research could enable new scientific discoveries and accelerate […]