VTT method accelerates the development of microelectronics in three dimensions

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed the unique PillarHall test structures to accelerate the market entry of three-dimensional, small, efficient and low-power but high-performance electronic components. This will benefit developers of challenging thin film and related manufacturing processes, and thereby the entire electronics industry value network. There has been occasional speculation on whether Moore’s Law remains valid. Transistors are already being packed into squares so small that their rate of shrinkage is accelerating in three dimensions. For example, the