학술논문

The PiezoElectronic switch: A path to low energy electronics
Document Type
Conference
Source
2013 Third Berkeley Symposium on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems (E3S) Energy Efficient Electronic Systems (E3S), 2013 Third Berkeley Symposium on. :1-2 Oct, 2013
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Photonics and Electrooptics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Switches
Positron emission tomography
Materials
CMOS integrated circuits
Logic gates
Transistors
Clocks
Language
Abstract
The information age has produced astonishing improvements in compute power, but the current highly successful CMOS technology is running into power limitations. Computing takes up of order 5% of the US electricity production, power is now the primary limiting factor on clock speed, and power limits practical development of exascale computing facilities. CMOS power depends on voltage which is now limited by fundamental physics and cannot be further lowered by an engineering fix. A fundamentally new device concept is needed in order to take computing into a new lower power regime.