New 'FinFETs' Promising For Smaller Transistors

ScienceDaily reports that transistors could get smaller thanks to the use of a fin-like structure.

Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers to create faster and more compact circuits and computer chips.

The fins are made not of silicon, like conventional transistors, but from a material called indium-gallium-arsenide.

Called finFETs, for fin field-effect-transistors, researchers from around the world have been working to perfect the devices as potential replacements for conventional transistors.

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New 'FinFETs' Promising For Smaller Transistors, More Powerful Chips
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/
091110171746.htm

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