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Article: Transistors of the future: will diamonds be an engineer's best friend?
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- EDN
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- July 17, 1997
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Semiconductor-fabrication processes are approaching their natural limits. The electronics industry will have to start developing and using new materials and technologies to keep up with the increasing need for smaller, faster transistors.
If there is one truism in electronics, it's that faster is better, and the industry invests a staggering amount of research and development in increasing the speed of electronic devices. Ultimately, there are only two ways to increase the speed of transistor switches based on existing semiconductor technologies. The first is to reduce the size of the structures on the semiconductor, thereby obtaining smaller transistors that are ...