![]() ![]() Voltage applied to the gate controls the current between source and drain. Nowadays, polySi is more widely used as gate. ![]() MOS derives its name from the basic physical structure of these devices MOS devices comprise of a semiconductor, oxide and a metal gate. MOS is further classified under PMOS (P-type MOS), NMOS (N-type MOS) and CMOS (Complementary MOS). Base currents limit integration density of bipolar devices. In these transistors, small current into very thin base layer controls large currents between emitter and collector. Silicon IC technologies can be primarily classified under three types:īipolar transistors have npn or pnp silicon structure. Present day chips would not exist if the CMOS technique would not have been implemented around the late eighties. Afterwards, in eighties, CMOS processes were widely adopted. Initially, NMOS got wider acceptance but with the increase in integration density, power consumption again became a problem. MOS circuits do have lower power consumption but they are also slower than their bipolar colleagues. MOS devices work with only switching voltages current per se is not needed for the operation. In principle, MOS is better in terms of power consumption. Dimensions of MOS devices can be scaled down more easily than other transistor types. To provide a solution for the problem of power consumption, MOS technology eventually made its way. Even in the case of all transistors being ‘OFF’, the sum of the leakage current in bipolar transistors is fairly large. However, soon the problems of high power consumption by bipolar circuits became dominant. This caused the threshold voltage of the transistor to shift during the operation. One of the reasons behind this was the inherent instability of the MOS transistors due to the presence of minute amounts of alkali elements in the gate dielectric. Even though the principles were well known, MOS arrived in the markets several years later. The first integrated circuits hitting the markets in the seventies had a few 100 transistors integrated in bipolar technology. It seems intuitively obvious that scaling cannot go on forever because transistors cannot be smaller than atoms. Transistors have become smaller, faster, consume less power, and are cheaper to manufacture. No other technology has grown so fast so long. 53% compound annual growth rate is achieved over 45 years. Having crossed 90nm, 65nm technological nodes, 32 nm and 22nm technology is in the pipeline. In 1971, Intel 4004 had transistors with minimum dimension of 10um and in 2003 Pentium 4 had transistors with minimum dimension of 130 nm. The transistors manufactured today are 20 times faster and occupy less than 1% of the area of those built 20-30 years ago. The speed of transistors increases and their cost decreases as their size is reduced. Looks surprising, but his prediction has turned true and is being treated as a law. This doubling was based on a 50 – 60-component chip produced at that point of time compared with those produced in preceding years. The observation made by Gordon Moore was that the number of components on the most complex integrated circuit chip would double each year for the next 10 years. In 1963 Gordon Moore predicted that as a result of continuous miniaturization, transistor count would double every 18 months. The most common description of the evolution of CMOS technology is known as Moore’s law. In 1958, J Kilby invented the first integrated circuit flip flop at Texas and soon after this Frank Wanlass at Fairchild described the first CMOS logic gate (nMOS and pMOS) in 1963. The first working point contact transistor developed by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley at Bell laboratories in 1947 initiated the rapid growth of the information technology industry. ![]()
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