CMOL: Second life for silicon?

  • Authors:
  • Konstantin K. Likharev

  • Affiliations:
  • Stony Brook University, NY 11794-3800, USA

  • Venue:
  • Microelectronics Journal
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This is a brief review of the recent work on the prospective hybrid CMOS/nanowire/nanodevice (''CMOL'') circuits including digital memories, reconfigurable Boolean-logic circuits, and mixed-signal neuromorphic networks. The basic idea of CMOL circuits is to combine the advantages of CMOS technology (including its flexibility and high fabrication yield) with the extremely high potential density of molecular-scale two-terminal nanodevices. Relatively large critical dimensions of CMOS components and the ''bottom-up'' approach to nanodevice fabrication may keep CMOL fabrication costs at affordable level. At the same time, the density of active devices in CMOL circuits may be as high as 10^1^2cm^2 and that they may provide an unparalleled information processing performance, up to 10^2^0 operations per cm^2 per second, at manageable power consumption.