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IEEE Spectrum November 2011 Ahmed & Schuegraf	Transistor Wars Rival architectures face off in a bid to keep Moore's Law alive. In May, Intel announced the most dramatic change to the architecture of the transistor since the device was invented.
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Bohr et al.	The High-k Solution Microprocessors coming out this fall are the result of the first big redesign in CMOS transistors since the late 1960s.
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Sarah Adee	Transistors Go Vertical The semiconductor industry fights silicon sprawl by building up, not out. Today's CMOS transistor is planar, but chip makers are exploring more power-efficient three-dimensional structures as well as a planar structure with two gates.
IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Joshua J Romero	Japanese Engineers Turn High-k Dielectric Transistor Problem on Its Head One gate metal and two high-k dielectrics could mean a cheaper and easier 45-nanometer CMOS manufacturing process for transistors.
IEEE Spectrum July 2012 Miguel Miranda	The Threat of Semiconductor Variability As transistors shrink, the problem of chip variability grows
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Rachel Courtland	Foundries Rush 3-D Transistors Nearly two years after Intel, the world's leading foundries scramble to get FinFETs into the hands of chip designers
IEEE Spectrum May 2013 Alexander Hellemans	Nanowire Transistors Could Keep Moore's Law Alive Researchers are perfecting ways to produce gate-all-around devices
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Rachel Courtland	3-D Chips Grow Up In 2012, 3-D chips will help extend Moore's Law - and move beyond it.
Technology Research News December 17, 2003	Organic transistors get small Researchers from Cornell University have shown that it is possible to fabricate useful organic thin film transistors that have a channel length as small as 30 nanometers. The smaller the channel, the faster the transistor. Previously, organic TFT channel lengths were limited to about 100 nm.
IEEE Spectrum September 2008 Peide D. Ye	Beyond Silicon's Elemental Logic In the quest for speed, key parts of micro-processors may soon be made of gallium arsenide or other III-V semiconductors
Chemistry World November 27, 2006 Simon Hadlington	Getting the Dope on a Single Atom of Dopant Scientists have successfully probed the electronic and quantum mechanical properties of a single atom of dopant in a silicon transistor. The research could provide important information necessary for the development of quantum computers.
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Samuel K. Moore	Masters of Memory Swiss firm Innovative Silicon crams 5 megabytes of RAM into the space of one. Their chip is called called Z-RAM, and if it grabs even a little piece of the on-chip memory market, it will change the ground rules for microprocessor design and will quickly become a company to be reckoned with.
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Samuel K. Moore	Intel 45-Nanometer Penryn Processors Arrive Penryn chips are the result of the first fundamental redesign of the CMOS transistor
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Liu et al.	MEMS Switches for Low-Power Logic A modern twist on a trusted old technology -- the electromechanical relay -- could lead to ultralow-power chips
InternetNews June 13, 2006 David Needle	3-D Transistors in The Works Intel's researchers are closer to development of processors that use "tri-gate" or three-dimensional transistors, the microscopic, silicon-based switches that process the ones and zeros of the digital world.
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Singh & Thakur	Chip Making's Singular Future Beleaguered chip makers are counting on single-wafer manufacturing, which makes ICs on one wafer at a time, to cut costs and get chips to market faster.
Chemistry World February 5, 2007 Lionel Milgrom	Hafnium Oxide Helps Make Chips Smaller and Faster Intel and IBM have announced that they will use dramatically different materials to build smaller, faster transistors for their next generation of chips.
Industrial Physicist Avouris & Appenzeller	Electronics and Optoelectronics with Carbon Nanotubes Evaluating the potential of carbon nanotubes as the basis of a future nanoelectronics technology.
The Motley Fool December 11, 2011 Alex Planes	A New Power-Sipping Shake-up for Mobile Chipmakers Start-up SuVolta's technology works now and could be produced soon.
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Keane & Kim	Transistor Aging Measuring the degradation of microprocessors is tricky. Doing it better would unleash more processing power.
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Wager & Hoffman	Thin, Fast, and Flexible Semiconductors Amorphous oxide semiconductors promise to make flat-panel displays faster and sharper than today's silicon standby.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003	Nanowires boost plastic circuits The move is on to develop flexible, cheap, plastic electronics, but so far organic circuits have fallen far short of silicon chip performance. Researchers from the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Germany have moved the field forward with a new way to make flexible transistors.
InternetNews January 27, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Intel Breakthrough Keeps Moore's Law on Track Intel dispenses with silicon for the first time in 40 years in its effort to make smaller, faster and less power-hungry chips.
InternetNews August 30, 2004 Michael Singer	Intel Evolves Chipmaking Technology The company reaches a tipping point with its 90-nanometer chips, as it works to slim down to 65nm next year.
PC World December 3, 2001 Martyn Williams	AMD Announces Another Chip Advance Company's new transistor is five times smaller than current models, leading to faster and more complex chips...
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Monica Heger	Flurry of Floating-Body Memory Research, but Still No Products Intel and Toshiba show off their competitors to Innovative Silicon's Z-RAM
IEEE Spectrum July 2010 Neil Savage	Hynix Makes No-Capacitor DRAM Z-RAM memory design might find a spot in the competitive DRAM market
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Sally Adee	The Fastest, the Smallest, and the Strangest at IEDM This year's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, as usual, is largely a race to the bottom
IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Michael Riordan	The Silicon Dioxide Solution How physicist Jean Hoerni built the bridge from the transistor to the integrated circuit.
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 Bill Arnold	Shrinking Possibilities Lithography will need multiple strategies to keep up with the evolution of memory and logic
Technology Research News June 4, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Plastic transistors go vertical Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England have brought inexpensive, practical organic transistors a step closer to your grocery cart by devising a pair of processes that form small, vertical transistors from layers of printed polymer.
Technology Research News March 23, 2005	Layers promise cheap circuits The challenge is making organic transistors that work well electronically.
InternetNews December 13, 2004 Michael Singer	Chipmakers Advance Transistor Technology IBM and AMD have devised a new silicon transistor technology they claim will boost the speeds of single- and dual-core chips.
Chemistry World February 28, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	First Graphene Transistors May Herald Future of Electronic Chips Researchers claim to have created the world's first practical transistors cut from ribbons of graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms.
InternetNews December 7, 2004 Michael Singer	IBM Perks Up Memory, Transistors The company shrinks its SRAM and adds a dash of germanium fuel to its chips.
IEEE Spectrum September 2008	Paper Transistor Researchers from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in Portugal, say they've made a transistor in which paper acts as a functional component.
Technology Research News February 23, 2005	Tiny transistors sniff chemicals Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have found that the chemical sensing abilities of infinitesimally small transistors made from thin films of the organic crystal pentacene are quite different from those of larger transistors made from the same materials.
Technology Research News January 12, 2005	Silicon Surfaces Speed Circuits Researchers have devised a way to use the chemistry of silicon surfaces to make smaller chip features.
BusinessWeek April 18, 2005 Adam Aston	The Coming Chip Revolution Facing the limits of silicon, scientists are turning to carbon nanotubes. But even with a reliable supply of tubes, scaling up production to supply a vast global industry will take years.
PC Magazine February 1, 2006 Sebastian Rupley	Minding Moore's Law More speed and less power draw are the main mantras in the semiconductor business, and Intel, in partnership with QinetiQ, has developed new transistors to advance both goals.
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Eric Smalley	Ultrathin carbon speeds circuits Researchers have found that the equivalent of unrolled carbon nanotubes -- sheets of carbon atoms only a few atoms thick -- have comparable electrical properties and are more compatible with today's chipmaking methods. It could be used practically within five years
IEEE Spectrum November 2010 David Lammers	The Era of Error-Tolerant Computing Errors will abound in future processors...and that's okay
Technology Research News June 4, 2003	DNA part makes transistor Researchers from the University of Lecce in Italy and the University of Bologna in Italy have produced a transistor made from a derivative of one of the four bases that make up DNA.
Technology Research News January 28, 2004	Nanotubes tied to silicon circuit Connecting minuscule nanotube transistors to traditional silicon transistors enables the atomic-scale electronics to communicate with existing electronic equipment.
PC Magazine March 6, 2007 Loyd Case	Intel's Next-Generation Core2 Microprocessor Why Intel's new Penryn processor could be a major breakthrough for computing.
Technology Research News September 22, 2004	Nanowire Makes Standup Transistor Researchers have devised a simple way to make a set of vertical transistors from nanowires.
CIO May 15, 2001 John Edwards	Upholding Moore's Law What's .03 microns long and can be turned on and off 10 billion times a second? It's a new transistor that has the potential to keep Moore's Law on the books for at least several more years...
The Motley Fool January 29, 2007 Jack Uldrich	IBM and Intel Install a New Gatekeeper Changes to transistor components will keep Moore's Law running smoothly. Which companies stand to come out on top? Investors, take note.
PC World September 12, 2002 James Niccolai	Tomorrow's CPU: Wireless Link Inside Intel finds new ways to shrink, speed chips, plus build in radio functions.
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Joachim N. Burghartz	Make Way for Flexible Silicon Chips We need them because thin, pliable organic semiconductors are too slow to serve in tomorrow's chips. Seamless integration of computing into everyday objects isn't quite here yet.