MATERIALS International SEMATECH tackles emerging materials

摘要

Emerging materials will augment silicon transistor technology by providing enhanced speed, lower power consumption, improved heat, dissipation, or added RF/analog functionality while maintaining the large-scale integration capability of CMOS technology. Alternative materials implementation, in conjunction with traditional CMOS scaling, is considered essential for maintaining CMOS technology roadmap targets, thus the 2003 ITRS Starting Materials sub-Technical Working Group established a team focused on addressing alternative substrates, or emerging materials ― the Emerging Materials Team. The team's objective is to provide guidance for the industry regarding novel starting materials structures and processing methodologies that will enhance silicon-based CMOS technology, allowing it to meet anticipated roadmap scaling requirements. The augmentation of the silicon starting material need not be entirely silicon-based as long as CMOS improvement is the end goal. As an example, the integration of Ⅲ-Ⅴ compound optoelectronics on Si for enhanced bandwidth for I/O limited CMOS technologies would be considered a topic for the team, but the fabrication of Ⅲ-Ⅴ on Si devices for discrete implementation with-out any incorporation of a Si microelectronics theme would not.