The remarkable proliferation of information and communication technology (ICT) – which has had dramatic economic and social impact in our society – has been enabled by the steady advancement of integrated circuit (IC) technology following Moore’s Law, which states that the number of components (transistors) on an IC “chip” doubles every two years. Increasing the number of transistors on a chip ...

OVERVIEW: Silicon semiconductor (MOSFET: metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor) dimensions are approaching the nanometer scale. The gate electrode size has already been reduced to 50 nm or less for the most advanced 90-nm technology nodes, and for the 65-nm nodes the size is expected to be 25 nm. A new guideline to replace the scaling rule is needed, and making use of the strain eff...

This special section contains about 27 papers, which cover the fields of MOSFET technology, Emerging technology, III-V semiconductor technology, Nanoscale device technology Memory technology and Circuit technology. Recent years, innovations of electronic devices are strongly required for the various electronics fields such as information processing, communications, sensor electronics and power ...