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Thursday, January 15, 2015

#CHIPS: "FeFET Extends Moore's Law Beyond end of Silicon Roadmap"

A transistor that is smaller than today's silicon transistors and yet has a built-in memory material in its gate oxide, called ferroelectric transistors, could change the face of computing by allowing instant-on operation as well as eliminate the need for RAM and flash by running faster than DRAM and denser than flash: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog and EE Times


The ferroelectric material pictured on a germanium channel above a silicon substrate retains its polarization indefinitely making any computers built from FeFETs instant-on


The measurement set-up using negative-biased conductive scanning probe to sense switching in ferroelectric layer.

FULL STORY AT EE TIMES