Research Topics 2010
Development of Novel Transistor with Combined Logic and Memory Functions with Power Consumption Reduced to One-Millionth that of Conventional Devices
– Road to the Development of a Zero Starting Time PC –Dec 24, 2010
- This research was conducted by
- Atomic Electronics Group headed by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa,
- in collaboration with a group of Prof. Ogawa at Osaka University
- and a group of Prof. Yamaguchi at the University of Tokyo.
A novel transistor, the “atom transistor,” which performs both logic and memory functions while reducing power consumption to 1 x 10-6 that of the conventional devices, were successfully developed. This work is expected to accelerate the realization of zero-starting time personal computers (PC) and other electronic equipments.
Fig. 1. Operating mechanism of an atom transistor. Metal cations/atoms supplied from the gate electrode form a conductive path between the source and the drain.