Multigate Device

See: Electronic Device, Multigate Transistor, Intel Tri-Gate Device, CMOS Device, CMOS Transistor, Integrated Circuit.

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References

2011

• (Wikipedia, 2011-May-16) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multigate_device
  • A multigate device or multiple gate field-effect transistor(MuGFET) refers to a MOSFET which incorporates more than one gate into a single device. The multiple gates may be controlled by a single gate electrode, wherein the multiple gate surfaces act electrically as a single gate, or by independent gate electrodes. A multigate device employing independent gate electrodes is sometimes called a Multiple Independent Gate Field Effect Transistor or MIGFET. Multigate transistors are one of several strategies being developed by CMOS semiconductor manufacturers to create ever-smaller microprocessors and memory cells, colloquially referred to as extending Moore's Law.
  • Development efforts into multigate transistors have been reported by AMD, Hitachi, IBM, Infineon Technologies, Intel Corporation, TSMC, Freescale Semiconductor, UC Berkeley and others and the ITRS predicts that such devices will be the cornerstone of sub-32 nm technologies.<ref>

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