{"id":16913,"date":"2015-09-04T12:47:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T19:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/squishy-transistors-a-device-concept-for-fast-low-power-electronics"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:24:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:24:20","slug":"squishy-transistors-a-device-concept-for-fast-low-power-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/squishy-transistors-a-device-concept-for-fast-low-power-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Squishy transistors\u2014a device concept for fast, low-power electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/squishy-transistors-a-device-concept-for-fast-low-power-electronics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), IBM, the University of Edinburgh and Auburn University have shown that a new device concept \u2014 a \u2018squishy\u2019 transistor \u2014 can overcome the predicted power bottleneck caused by CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) technology reaching its fundamental limits.<\/p>\n<p>Moore\u2019s law predicted that the number of transistors able to fit on a given die area would double every two years. As transistor density doubled, chip size shrank and processing speeds increased. This march of progress led to rapid advances in <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/information+technology\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"textTag\">information technology<\/a> and a surge in the number of interconnected devices. The challenge with making anything smaller is that there are fundamental physical limits that can\u2019t be ignored and we are now entering the final years of CMOS transistor shrinkage.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, this proliferation is driving an increase in data volume, accompanied by rising demands on energy to process, store and communicate it all; as a result, IT infrastructure now draws an estimated 10 % of the world\u2019s electrical power. Previous efforts have focused on remediation by reducing the amount of energy per bit. However, soon we will hit a power barrier that will prevent continued voltage scaling. The development of novel, low-power devices based on different physical principles is therefore crucial to the continued evolution of IT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-09-squishy-transistorsa-device-concept-fast.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), IBM, the University of Edinburgh and Auburn University have shown that a new device concept \u2014 a \u2018squishy\u2019 transistor \u2014 can overcome the predicted power bottleneck caused by CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) technology reaching its fundamental limits. Moore\u2019s law predicted that the number of transistors [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69631,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16913\/revisions\/69631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}