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Review on Low Power Microelectronics

Prateek Srivastava

Abstract


The transistor was invented in the late 1940s, and the integrated circuit was invented in the late 1950s, ushering in the time of low-power microelectronics. Battery-operated goods like as watches, ear monitors, implantable cardioverter artificial hearts, pocket calculators, pagers, cellphones, and potentially the hand-held mobile microchips terminal have been the most demanding uses of low power microelectronics in the past. Low-power microelectronics, on the other hand, swiftly evolved from a significant tributary to the mainstream of microelectronics in the early 1990s. The main reasons for this shift were rising transistor packing density and CMOS microchip clock frequencies, which pushed heat removal and power distribution to the forefront of the difficulties confronting microelectronics advancement. Microelectronics is an area of electronics that makes use of very small, or micro, components to make electronics. The sector continues to flourish as demand for compact, low-cost devices grows. Research, reliability, and manufacturing are the three key areas of attention. Low-power electronics, like laptop CPUs, are electronics that were designed to use less electricity than typical, generally at a cost.

Future potential for low power gigascale integration (GSI) will be controlled by a pyramid of conceptual and applied restrictions whose levels can be classified as (1) basic, (2) material, (3) device, (4) circuit, and (5) system, according to the thesis of this discussion. Semiconductor materials such as silicon and germanium are used to make microelectronic devices. Microelectronic versions of classic electronics designs, and components can be discovered.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/jvdt.v7i2.1607

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