Austin, Texas – With high-k dielectrics apparently delayed beyond the 45-nanometer node, this year's International Electron Devices Meeting will focus on second-generation strained-silicon techniques ...

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Researchers and design engineers from IBM and Intel will present papers at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) next week that detail their work on "strained silicon," a manufacturing ...

The relentless pursuit of higher frequency operation in modern electronics has spurred significant advancements in terahertz (THz) oscillator technology and the development of strained silicon devices ...

In a statement ahead of the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco, the two companies called the technology a "breakthrough process" that will speed up transistors by 24 percent ...

(Nanowerk News) University of Surrey researchers have developed a single-step procedure to put single-crystal silicon under more strain than has been achieved before. The discovery, which has a patent ...

IBM and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) have jointly developed a new method for implementing strained silicon technology on both positive and negative transistors, the companies said Monday. The new ...

IBM Corp. is claiming a 35 percent boost in chip speed using silicon that has been structurally changed. Called “strained silicon,” the technology stretches the material, speeding the flow of ...

The two techniques, strained silicon and silicon on insulator (SOI), have been brought together for the first time in a technique called strained silicon directly on insulator (SSDOI), IBM said.

Although individual process advances such as strained silicon or silicon-on insulator (SOI) can pump up performance, it will take more than one boost to meet future system-on-a-chip (SoC) application ...

(Nanowerk News) Tightening a string, e.g. when tuning a guitar, makes it vibrate faster. But when strings are nano-sized, increased tension also reduces, or ‘dilutes’, the loss of the string’s ...