{"id":183547,"date":"2024-02-24T17:22:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T23:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/breakthrough-pseudo-cmos-transistors-for-1000-times-more-efficient-computing"},"modified":"2024-02-24T17:22:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T23:22:37","slug":"breakthrough-pseudo-cmos-transistors-for-1000-times-more-efficient-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/breakthrough-pseudo-cmos-transistors-for-1000-times-more-efficient-computing","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough Pseudo CMOS Transistors for 1000 Times More Efficient Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-pseudo-cmos-transistors-for-1000-times-more-efficient-computing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41928-023-01112-w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beijing researchers made a pseudo-CMOS architecture for sub-picowatt logic computing that uses self-biased molybdenum disulfide transistors.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As transistors are scaled to smaller dimensions, their static power increases. Combining two-dimensional (2D) channel materials with complementary metal\u2013oxide\u2013semiconductor (CMOS) logic architectures could be an effective solution to this issue because of the excellent field-effect properties of 2D materials. However, 2D materials have limited polarity control. The transistors have a gapped channel that forms a tunable barrier\u2014thus circumventing the polarity control of 2D materials\u2014and exhibit a reverse-saturation current below 1 pA with high reliability and endurance.<\/p>\n<p>They use the devices to make homojunction-loaded inverters with good rail-to-rail operation at a switching threshold voltage of around 0.5 V, a static power of a few picowatts, a dynamic delay time of around 200 \u00b5s, a noise margin of more than 90% and a peak voltage gain of 241. They also fabricate fundamental gate circuits on the basis of this pseudo-CMOS configuration by cascading several devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing researchers made a pseudo-CMOS architecture for sub-picowatt logic computing that uses self-biased molybdenum disulfide transistors. As transistors are scaled to smaller dimensions, their static power increases. Combining two-dimensional (2D) channel materials with complementary metal\u2013oxide\u2013semiconductor (CMOS) logic architectures could be an effective solution to this issue because of the excellent field-effect properties of 2D materials. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183547","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}