In Quest of the “Next Switch”: Prospects for Greatly Reduced Power Dissipation in a Successor to the Silicon Field-Effect Transistor
The work
| Authors | Thomas Theis; P. M. Solomon |
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| Type | article |
| Year | 2010 |
| Citekey | theis2010quest |
Where it appeared
| Published in | Proceedings of the IEEE |
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| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 2005--2014 |
Identifiers
| DOI | 10.1109/jproc.2010.2066531 |
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| OpenAlex | W2114847300 |
Access
| Landing page | https://doi.org/10.1109/jproc.2010.2066531 |
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Related
| Distinct from | theis2017moores Theis is first author of both. The 2010 paper surveys the search for a successor switch to the silicon FET; the 2017 paper argues the end of Moore's law is a beginning, and cites the 2010 paper as its own groundwork -- reference 8 of theis2017moores is this work. |
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Abstract
Reduced power dissipation relative to the field-effect transistor (FET) is a key attribute that should be possessed by any device that has a chance of supplanting the FET as the ubiquitous building block for complex digital logic. We outline the possible physical approaches to achieving this attribute, and illustrate these approaches by citing current exploratory device research. We assess the value of the key exploratory research objectives of the semiconductor industry-sponsored Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI) in the light of this pressing need to reduce dissipation in future digital logic devices.
How it got here
| How it got here | agent via openalex |
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| Added | 2026-08-30 16:54 UTC |
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@article{theis2010quest,
title = {In Quest of the “Next Switch”: Prospects for Greatly Reduced Power Dissipation in a Successor to the Silicon Field-Effect Transistor},
author = {Thomas Theis and P. M. Solomon},
year = {2010},
journal = {Proceedings of the IEEE},
publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers},
volume = {98},
number = {12},
pages = {2005--2014},
doi = {10.1109/jproc.2010.2066531},
}
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