Nanowire Transistors Faster than Silicon

June 21, 2006 | Source: Technology Review

Researchers at Harvard University have shown that nanowire transistors can be at least four times speedier than conventional silicon devices.

The principal researcher, chemistry professor Charles Lieber, says this could lead to inexpensive, high-performance, flexible electronic circuitry for cell phones and displays. It could also save space and further increase speed, he says, by allowing memory, logic, and sensing layers to be assembled on the same chip.