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Technology breakthroughs at the 2021 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, which is once again being held as an in-person event in San Francisco.
Han Wang and H.-S. Philip Wong of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) tell Nature Electronics about the company’s research efforts into two-dimensional materials.
Semiconducting two-dimensional materials might one day be used in scaled semiconductor technology. Andras Kis recounts how the first transistor based on a single layer of molybdenum disulfide was created.
Ion implantation can be used to dope silicon devices, but can be problematic when applied to the atomically thin crystal structure of two-dimensional materials — an increasing range of alternative methods is though available.