The nanoelectronics industry has invested substantially in efforts to produce vertically oriented gated nanowires, with aspirations to scale these up to forests of nanowire transistors. But fabricating just one gate on these tiny structures is fiddly, and the whole procedure must be repeated for each additional gate. Now researchers have flipped this protocol on its side and shown that with a horizontal architecture, adding multiple gates need not multiply the number of fabrication steps……
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