A Review of Emerging Devices Beyond MOSFET for High Performance Computing

Abstract

The Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET) device dimensions are continuously shrinking to achieve higher performance, lower cost, and to satisfy the low power demand of high throughput applications. To continue with Moore's law, promising Nanoscale devices with less effects of short channel needs to be fabricated. The emerging devices must be compatible with the Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) fabrication technology. The device design community is in search for perfect alternatives of conventional MOSFET. This paper reviews few emerging devices for future high speed, small size and low power which can replace conventional MOSFET.