Silicon & beyond CMOS: The Path of Advanced Electronic Structure Engineering for Low-Voltage Transistors

Abstract

With the continuing growth of data bandwidth, next-generation information technology demands circuit and device scaling to meet performance, form-factor and cost needs. With increase performance and circuit density, reduction in power dissipation has become paramount for both high-performance and low-power applications. In the case of high-performance systems, heat dissipation becomes the thermal bottle neck. Limited by battery, low-power mobile applications ration energy to maintain user multimedia experience while on the move. Lowering supply voltage (Vdd) is becoming the major system enabler to manage the power challenges.