How the Father of FinFETs Helped Save Moore’s Law
What an amazing career. I had a couple of questions. The articles states:>"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."How exactly does residual current start to dominate? Does this mean that current starts to leak into neighboring transistors and inadvertently turn them on?>"Hu saw the fundamental problem as quite clear—making the channel very thin to prevent electrons from sneaking past the gate?"I would have thought that making the channels thinner make current flow through them easier. Why does making them thinner prevent current leakage exactly?