Emerging research device roadmap and perspectives

The challenges in CMOS scaling have motivated research on a wide range of emerging devices, to extend the life of CMOS or to explore beyond-CMOS applications. The Emerging Research Device (ERD) chapter in ITRS systematically tracks and assesses numerous novel device options for both memory and logic applications. Most emerging devices explored so far are more suitable to augment CMOS than to replace CMOS. To truly utilize the unique characteristics of emerging devices, a system approach with device-design co-optimization needs to be adopted. Novel architectures may find promising opportunities in the beyond-CMOS domain.