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10 September 2025
Nanomaterials Webinar | Breaking Moore’s Law Barrier—Transistors for Three-Dimensional Brain-Mimicking IC Architecture, 17 September 2025
A message from the webinar Chair:
Delay and power consumption are the major limitations of advanced microprocessors, though these devices will soon attain Hyper-EUV lithography and quantum mechanical down-scaling limits. To address these issues, we pioneered the 3D IC (IEDM 2004); the package-level 3D IC was implanted in real-world manufacturing applications in 2016. Unfortunately, the packaged 3D microprocessor is limited by the low interconnection density of Through-Silicon Via (TSV), which offers little dynamic switching power, as well as an improvement in operation speed. In addition, the high level of heat dissipation from the 1000 W AI accelerator may cause 3D package failure.
In this talk, a monolithic 3D IC architecture using a high-mobility MOSFET (IEDM 2015) on the IC backend amorphous SiO2 will be presented. For the first time, the SnON nanosheet nFET will achieve an electron mobility higher than that of single-crystal Si, InGaAs, and two-dimensional MoS2 and WSe2 nFETs at the same 5 nm body thickness. The SnO nanosheet nFET reached a mobility around one-fifth of that of crystal Si at the same 7 nm body thickness. In addition, the SnO2-SnO CMOS was fabricated by sputtering, which can be implemented into IC manufacturing without the challenge of 2D materials. This monolithic 3D IC is therefore a potential technology to improve the circuit speed, dynamic switching power, integration density, down-scaling cost, and performance gap to the level of the biosystem; it is especially important since the down-scaling 2D IC will soon reach the lithography limit of around 2030 at the 7Å node.
Webinar: Breaking Moore’s Law Barrier—Transistors for Three-Dimensional Brain-Mimicking IC Architecture
Date: 17 September 2025
Time: 10.00 a.m. CET | 4.00 p.m. CST
Webinar ID: 869 4069 7477
More information: https://sciforum.net/event/Nanomaterials-22
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Program:
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Speaker/Presentation |
Time in CEST/CET |
Time in CST (Asia) |
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Prof. Dr. Albert Chin |
10:00–11:00 a.m. |
4:00–5:00 p.m. |
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