Maintaining Moore’s Law without Silicon

December 20, 2006 | Source: Technology Review

At the International Electron Device meeting in San Francisco last week, MIT scientists presented research that revealed a possible silicon-free future for electronics. The team showed that a transistor made of a compound semiconductor called indium gallium arsenide could operate more than two times faster than a silicon transistor of the same size. The findings could keep Moore’s Law alive after silicon has reached its limit.