Wafer-scale 2D MoS₂ transistors with sub-5nm channels beat silicon's switching limit
Researchers report wafer-scale two-dimensional MoS₂ transistors with sub-5-nanometre channels that surpass silicon's switching limit, in a Nature Communications paper that moves atomically thin electronics closer to manufacturing reality.
Silicon transistors are running out of room to shrink; the sub-5nm channels in these molybdenum-disulfide devices switch more efficiently than silicon can at that scale — a genuine post-silicon signal.
The wafer-scale part matters as much as the physics: lab curiosities don't change industries, but manufacturable ones do.
Chipmakers won't retool overnight, but the paper gives the industry's beyond-silicon roadmap one more credible candidate.
Originally reported by Tech Xplore. Article compiled by the Deccan Age desk.
