9nm carbon nanotube transistor

IBM, with its staff of the best scientists and specialists in the semiconductor field, once again managed to accomplish the impossible and push the boundaries of familiar perception (not without using magic): in one of the laboratories a transistor was manufactured and tested using the 9nm process technology using carbon nanotubes - the very ones from which even today you can make the lightest materials on the planet and build camouflage (invisible to the human eye) objects.

As we already know, the standard production of silicon semiconductors is limited to 10NM technical process, below which the laws of physics and manufacturing technology are not allowed to pass, as stated by the largest microchip manufacturer, Intel, which stamps processors according to the 22nm process technology. According to expert forecasts, in 2015, manufacturers will press into this ceiling, and therefore technologies and methods for manufacturing chips, where individual transistors will be even less, are in great demand.

Smaller architecture means not only smaller chips, but also low power consumption - IBM researchers claim that the experimental semiconductor showed even better results than originally expected.
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According to general expectations, it is the future of nanotubes, since they show a better result than classic silicon transistors, while being smaller in size. Nanotubes are still in the earliest stages of research and production, where it is necessary to overcome several important barriers: the absence of metal in the carbon compound, the reliable placement of the nanotube in the overall microchip scheme. Agree, it is not easy to make a feint with ears and place a 9nm tube on a thin layer of an insulator using a two-step process. It is here that magic comes into play, not the one taught at Hogwarts.

And while it is only a test and an experiment, it is obvious that carbon computing has a future and it is they who are called upon to save the compliance of Moore’s law with reality.