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Re:Chipmakers Test Ferroelectrics as a Route to Ultralow-Pow... by deepnotderp on Friday March 16, 2018 @01:24PM (#16602265)
Fwiw, Chenming Hu is a proponent of NC-FETs as well.

Also, GloFo has already fabricated FinFET NC-FETs.

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Re:Chipmakers Test Ferroelectrics as a Route to Ultralow-Pow... by xt00 on Friday March 16, 2018 @01:29PM (#16602300)
oh interesting, was not aware of the term NC-FET -- so basically the ferroelectric material gives it the negative capacitance behavior... interesting.
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Re:Chipmakers Test Ferroelectrics as a Route to Ultralow-Pow... by deepnotderp on Friday March 16, 2018 @02:22PM (#16602797)
Yup, 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 :)
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