The PiezoElectronic switch: A path to low energy electronics

Author

Solomon, Paul M. ; Bryce, B. ; Keech, R. ; Shaw, T.M. ; Copel, M. ; Hung, Li-Wen ; Schrott, A. ; Theis, Thomas N. ; Haensch, Wilfried ; Rossangel, S.M. ; Shetty, Sachin ; Miyazoe, H. ; Elmegreen, Bruce G. ; Kuroda, M.A. ; Liu, X.-H. ; McKinstry, S. Trolie

Author_Institution

IBM T.J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

28-29 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

The information age has produced astonishing improvements in compute power, but the current highly successful CMOS technology is running into power limitations. Computing takes up of order 5% of the US electricity production, power is now the primary limiting factor on clock speed, and power limits practical development of exascale computing facilities. CMOS power depends on voltage which is now limited by fundamental physics and cannot be further lowered by an engineering fix. A fundamentally new device concept is needed in order to take computing into a new lower power regime.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; low-power electronics; piezoelectric devices; semiconductor switches; CMOS; computing; low energy electronics; piezoelectronic switch; CMOS integrated circuits; Clocks; Logic gates; Materials; Positron emission tomography; Switches; Transistors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Efficient Electronic Systems (E3S), 2013 Third Berkeley Symposium on

Conference_Location

Berkeley, CA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/E3S.2013.6705880

Filename

6705880