To continue making smartphones, laptops, and other devices more powerful and energy efficient, industry is intensely focused on identifying promising next-generation designs and materials for the principal building blocks of modern electronics: the tiny electrical on-off switches known as field-effect transistors (FETs). When deciding how to direct billions of funding dollars for next-generation transistors, investors will base many of their decisions on published research results.
![fet2 Source: https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/images/2022/07/27/fet2.png](https://csiac.org/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/fet2-panorama-a423dcc285a715a987f91cf3a3b10995-606cdedb7e0c3.png)
Source: https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/images/2022/07/27/fet2.png
August 3, 2022 | Originally published by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on July 29, 2022