The European project E2SWITCH is developing new electronic systems with ultra-low energy consumption, based on tunnel FET (TFET) heterostructures for transistors and circuits. The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne is coordinating the project, which involves Universities of Udine and Bologna in Italy, IMEC of Belgium, Forschungszentrum Julich of Germany, Lund University of Sweden, and companies IBM, CCS, and SCIPROM. The concept is to design a system to operate at voltages that are up to five times lower than those used in mobile phones, while reducing thermal dissipation. Within E2SWITCH the researchers aim to significantly reduce the power consumption of electronics by researching TFETs based on III-V heterostructure nanowires with wrap-around gate and directly integrated on standard silicon substrates.
Source: EPFL
