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Negative capacitance to the rescue?

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Can ferroelectric materials help transistors overcome the 'Boltzmann tyranny' that limits the performances of conventional semiconductor devices?

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Figure 1: Schematic diagram of a field-effect transistor (FET).

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Zhirnov, V., Cavin, R. Negative capacitance to the rescue?. Nature Nanotech 3, 77–78 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2008.18

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