Industry and academia join hands in search for post-CMOS logic

Several US semiconductor companies have teamed up with academic scientists and engineers in search for post-Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductors (CMOS) logic. The nanoelectronics institutes will be governed by executive bodies made up of equal numbers of industrial and academic scientists who will guide the flow of money, decide on research direction, and determine when to move a project to industry for development and marketing. The challenge for the institute is to come up with devices that operate at room temperatures, are small, consume less power and are faster than CMOS. Different approaches can take advantage of various spintronics to make something that can be be used in digital electronics.