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Intel fabs high-k dielectric InGaAs silicon
BOFFINS WORKING FOR for Chipzilla claim to have successfully fabricated a indium-gallium-arsenide (InGaAs) field-effect transistor on top of a crispy bed of silicon on insulator.
According to EE Times, the technique involved integrating a high-k gate stack that allows thinning of the gate oxide, which is apparently a good thing.
Mike Mayberry, vice president of Intel's Technology and Manufacturing Group and director of components research at Intel Labs, said that the quantum-well transistor's gate length is short. Unfortunately the contacts are still too large which probably means that everyone is blinking too much.
The next stage will be to engineer smaller contacts that minimise the barrier between the metallic contact and the quantum well, which if they can get a bucket down it will probably be full of cats which are either dead or alive.
It has taken Chipzilla's boffins three years of working on compound semiconductors that integrate InGaAs transistors on silicon substrates to get this far.
If they get away with it they will be able to use common silicon manufacturing techniques while achieving the high speed and high currents of InGaAs.
Of course, after this announcement under no circumstances should you let yourself get caught standing next to an Intel boffin at a Christmas party. µ
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This is one example how people are fooled that Graphine was next to silicon as saviour. People are just told whats good for "funded labs" so people dont protest on their tax amounts going to macho graphine researchers like quacks.
these new slang terms are blowing my non-ghetto americanized mind O.o!
Heres EMail from Ph.d Friend at Intel & State of Affairs there,
Inside from Aaron @Intel:Yea, we are keeping our factories open through the holiday's but it is not so bad. The techs like the extra pay and they do allow them to be lightly staffed on Christmas and New Years (Thanksgivving as well). Engineering has to have someone on-call but that isn't so bad either. We have 2 Jewish guys in our group so Christmass is easy. I had to ... See Morecover Thanksgiving and it was misserable since the floor needed me 3-4 hours a day all through the weekend but that means I don't have to worry about any of the rest of them and it also helped encourage my managment to send me to IEDM this year. And that was fantastic. It is a really exciting time for Process Technology with all the Hi-k Metal Gate, Fin FET, and III-IV channel work going on. I suspect we will seeing some of these technologies out in the wild in the next few years given some of the papers I saw there. Mike,Sorrow About Your Lost Friend. n.b. "Next Few Years...."
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Because the dead cats stick to the bucket. Or is that adherence?
InGaAs... dont' stand next to an Intel boffin...I get it, funny.
And with quantum wells, the cat is both dead and alive, there is no either-or until coherence.