How the Father of FinFETs Helped Save Moore’s Law
What an amazing career. I had a couple of questions. The articles states:<p>>"The main problem was power. As features grew smaller, current that leaked through when a transistor was in its “off” state became a bigger issue. This leakage is so great that it increased—or even dominated—a chip’s power consumption."<p>How exactly does residual current start to dominate? Does this mean that current starts to leak into neighboring transistors and inadvertently turn them on?<p>>"Hu saw the fundamental problem as quite clear—making the channel very thin to prevent electrons from sneaking past the gate?"<p>I would have thought that making the channels thinner make current flow through them easier. Why does making them thinner prevent current leakage exactly?