New materials and device architectures for the end-of-roadmap CMOS nodes

Conventional bulk CMOS scaling starts to fail. In order to prolong the life of Moore's laws, at least one technological booster (innovation) per node has to be introduced starting from the node 32 nm on. This presents a big technological challenge for the semiconductor industry. On the other hand, accumulation of the boosters permits to retrieve healthy scaling down to sub-10 nm gate lengths. This strategy even if technologically very challenging, is prospected to prolong the CMOS competitiveness till at least 2020.