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Supriyo Datta is a pretty top level semiconductor theory guy, so its a good chance theoretically this could work, but the place where tons of issues have come u
by xt00 9y ago
Supriyo Datta is a pretty top level semiconductor theory guy, so its a good chance theoretically this could work, but the place where tons of issues have come up over the years in using new materials is that they often lead to quality or defect issues in the manufacturing process that takes years to figure out.
- deepnotderp 9y agoFwiw, Chenming Hu is a proponent of NC-FETs as well. Also, GloFo has already fabricated FinFET NC-FETs.
- xt00 9y agooh interesting, was not aware of the term NC-FET -- so basically the ferroelectric material gives it the negative capacitance behavior... interesting.
- deepnotderp 9y agoYup, the NC-FET essentially has the NC and positive capacitor in series to get a voltage amplifier, a clever way of subverting the Boltzmann limit :)
- xt00 9y agoAlso funny, I spent months trying to buy his book for one of my semiconductor device physics courses that was out of print, and finally bought it for like $180 on ebay.. it actually was worth it.. really well written book..
- felipemnoa 9y agoCould you please name the book for those of us that may be interested?
- philipkglass 9y agoI'm not xt00, but based on age/out-of-printness I'm guessing it may be Datta's 1989 book "Quantum Phenomena (Modular Series on Solid State Devices, Vol 8)". His 1986 book "Surface Acoustic Wave Devices" is a distant second-best possibility, depending on what was in that one semiconductor device physics course. Everything else seems to be in print still, though some are expensive (as typical of specialized books).
- xt00 9y agoWas definitely part of the modular series, a small dark blue book. It’s this one as the previous poster said. "Quantum Phenomena (Modular Series on Solid State Devices, Vol 8)". It’s referenced to by many other books from what I recall. So I decided to go hunting for it — and found that the explanations in Datta’s book were better than many of the books that came after it. I’ll see if I still have the book someplace.
- philipkglass 9y agoThere's also a decent scan of the book available via b-ok.org.