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First Junctionless Nanowire Transistor //
Junctionless nanowire transistor successfully
Tyndall Breakthrough to Revolutionize Microchip Manufacturing
designed, simulated, fabricated and tested at
Tyndall National Institute.
© Tyndall National Institute
Colinge. “We are very excited by the outstanding leading results demonstrate the clear value of that
results that Jean-Pierre has achieved,” commented investment in research and development. In a very
Tyndall CEO, Professor Roger Whatmore. “We are short time Ireland is gaining recognition as a world
beginning to talk about these results with some of the leader in many technological areas and this invest-
world‘s leading semiconductor companies and are ment needs to ensure Ireland‘s economic recovery,”
receiving a lot of interest in further development and said Professor Whatmore.
possible licensing of the technology. These results
could not have been achieved without the expertise Jean-Pierre Colinge, Chi-Woo Lee, Aryan Afzalian, Nima
of Jean-Pierre and his colleagues, funded by Science Dehdashti Akhavan, Ran Yan, Isabelle Ferain, Pedram Ra-
Foundation Ireland, and working in the state-of-the zavi, Brendan O‘Neill, Alan Blake, Mary White, Anne-Marie
art facilities that we have at Tyndall. The work is also Kelleher, Brendan McCarthy & Richard Murphy: Nanowire
underpinned by substantial investments in Tyndall by transistors without junctions, In: Nature Nanotechnology
the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment AOP, February 21, 2010, DOI:10.1038/nnano.2010.15:
and the Higher Education Authority. These world-

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2010.15