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Nanowire
A gate-all-around channel with a narrow, roughly square or circular cross section. It gives excellent electrostatic control but very little current per wire, so nanosheets with wider cross sections were preferred for production logic.
- Also known as
- Nanowire FET, NWFET
- Type
- Technology
- Domain
- Process Technology, Transistor architecture
Notes
Nanowires were the early research form of GAA; widening them into sheets was the change that made GAA manufacturable.
Related terms
- Nanosheet
- GAA
- Channel release
- Vertical transistor
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