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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (142067)	8/21/2001 11:31:23 AM
From: fingolfen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

You have a penchant for using gate length and gate width interchangeably. You really need to think in two dimensions. A gate has length and width and they are not interchangeable terms. Sorry, mixing my metaphors. In cross section the width looks like a length. When you invert the gate region, the electron flow is not along the top down length of the transistor, rather it's along the width. That width, or "length" of the inversion region, is the most critical parameter for speed (though certainly not the only one).