Overview
Computing has been dominated human life since the birth of the basic units of computers - transistors, which contain a gate to control the current from the source to drain. By flowing current through the channel region between source and drain, the digital signal of 0 and 1 can be manipulated. The speed and power consumption of transistor have been improved by a factor of two every two years for the past six decades, which is well known as Moore's law. However, the development of transistors by scale-down has now faced challenges such as leakage of gate oxide, short-channel effect, and subthreshold conduction. Thus, some inspiring ideas such as high-moblity channel materials (GeSn), novel structures (tunnel transistors, nanowire transistors), and even quantum computing by spin manipulation have been the core research topic. In QEL, we are focusing on several areas to explore the future computing devices such as More-Moore logic devices (nanowire FETs or tunnel FETs), spintronic devices such as spin FETs, quantum computing devices (quantum dots or transmon qubits), and the material science for those novel devices.