Articles tagged with: Nanoscale and Semiconductor

Exploring the Ultimate Nanoscale for Future Electronics

..hey're only two nanometers wide! It's like shoving a graphene sheet" - a single layer of carbon atoms with remarkable conductive properties - "right down into a tough, insulating ceramic." For Ramesh, the discovery, in an oxide, more

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Cracking a tough nut for the semiconductor industry

..l interference or "cross-talk" by making the insulating films more and more porous with nanoscale voids - but this has made them more fragile. Brittle fracture failure of low-k insulating films remains a problem for the industry, affecting both more

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Nanotubes Outperform Copper Nanowires as Chip Interconnects

..ue of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. Because of the nanoscale size of interconnects, they are subject to quantum phenomena that are not apparent and not visible at the macroscale, Nayak said. Empirical and semi-classical laws cannot acc more

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Copper's Not Coping: New Chips Call on Light Speed

..afers are nearing their theoretical limits as physical properties of near nanoscale silicon integrated circuits begin to interfere with their performance. The speed of data transfer within integrated circuits is one of the major bottlenecks. A more

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