Science and engineering beyond moore's law

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 100, Issue SPL CONTENT, 2012, Pages 1720-1749

  Cavin, Ralph K ^a   Lugli, Paolo ^b   Zhirnov, Victor V ^a  

^a SEMICONDUCTOR RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beyond CMOS; biological computation; logic; memory; more than Moore; scaling limits

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; COMPUTATION THEORY; COST REDUCTION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE;

BEYOND CMOS; BIOLOGICAL COMPUTATIONS; LOGIC; MORE THAN MOORE; SCALING LIMITS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 84861187796     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2012.2190155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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