Dec 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
Original Article The semiconductor industry has hit a critical juncture with copper interconnects reaching their performance limits. Destination 2D, a startup led by a team of industry veterans and researchers, which has achieved a significant breakthrough by...
Dec 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Original Article by Dina Genkina The semiconductor industry’s long held imperative—Moore’s Law, which dictates that transistor densities on a chip should double roughly every two years—is getting more and more difficult to maintain. The ability to shrink down...
Dec 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Joseph Byrne December 5, 2024 The critical dimension defines a digital semiconductor process’s refinement. A 3 nm process is better than a 5 nm one, which is better than a 7 nm one. Although advancing lithography is essential to critical-dimension reductions, so too...
Aug 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Kaustav Banerjee’s lab overcomes a stubborn obstacle to wide-scale deployment of graphene in the semiconductor industry. Ever since graphene, the flexible, two-dimensional form of graphite (think a 1-atom-thick sheet of pencil lead), was discovered in 2004,...
Aug 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Nature Electronics NRL’s recent breakthrough on CMOS – Compatible growth of graphene that was presented in IEDM-2018 has been showcased by Nature Electronics as one of the most important highlights of IEDM-2018. Link to Full...
Aug 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
A new materials-based approach by Banerjee yields a smaller, higher-performing alternative to the classic design A basic building block of modern technology, inductors are everywhere: cellphones, laptops, radios, televisions, cars. And surprisingly, they are...