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How 2D semiconductors could extend Moore’s law

Incredibly thin transistors could deliver even more powerful computers if three research challenges can be solved, argue Ming-Yang Li and colleagues.
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  1. Ming-Yang Li

    1. Ming-Yang Li is with Corporate Research at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

  2. Sheng-Kai Su

    1. Sheng-Kai Su is with Corporate Research at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

  3. H.-S. Philip Wong

    1. H.-S. Philip Wong is with Corporate Research at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

  4. Lain-Jong Li

    1. Lain-Jong Li is with Corporate Research at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

The number of components in electronic circuits has doubled every two years since the 1960s — a trend known as Moore’s law. Transistors have shrunk so that ever more can fit on a silicon chip. But now, silicon transistors are reaching their physical limit. Radically different types of materials and devices are needed to realize the potential of the next generation of computers.

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Nature 567, 169-170 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00793-8

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