The most complex 2D microchip yet [News]
Charles Q. Choi · IEEE Spectrum · 2017
Scientists hope that twodimensional materials such as graphene or molybdenum disulfide will allow Moore's Law to continue apace once it becomes impossible to make further progress using silicon. A 3-atom-thick microchip developed by researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (VUT) may be the first example of 2D materials following the seemingly inexorable growth in the number of transistors in integrated circuits that Gordon Moore observed decades ago. Previously, the number of transistors on ICs made from 2D materials had remained in the single digits, says study senior author Thomas Muller, an electrical engineer at VUT. The chip that he and his colleagues created boasts 115 transistors. They described their device on 11 April in the journal Nature.