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<para> In the drive to create ever smaller transistors, conventional silicon CMOS devices are becoming more difficult to fabricate reliably as process size shrinks. New technologies are being investigated to replace silicon CMOS. While offering greater numbers of devices per unit area, all of these technologies are more difficult to fabricate, and more likely to fail in operation than current...