Nano Electronics & Photonics – TechConnect Briefs

Electron Transition Between Weakly Coupled Concentric Quantum Rings

Filikhin I., Matinyan S.G., Nimmo J., Vlahovic B., North Carolina Central University, US

We investigate the electron wavefunction localization in double concnetric quantum rings when a magentic field is applied.

Analysis of Graphene, Molecular Wires and Inorganic Materials for Nanoelectronics and Low Power Integrated Circuits

Lyshevski S.E., Rochester Institute of Technology, US

This paper studies some emerging and prospective materials and possible solutions for envisioned nanoscaled microelectronic devices. To assess and evaluate the performance of envisioned scaled microelectronic devices, one applies quantum mechanics and other advanced methods. [...]

Hybrid CMOS/nanodevice circuits with tightly integrated memory and logic functionality

Strukov D.B., University of California at Santa Barbara, US

We propose dynamic CMOL FPGA circuits which have potentials to perform massively parallel high throughput computations and in particular suitable for pattern matching tasks. The main difference of the proposed circuits from previously suggested hybrid [...]

A Five Input Majority Gate in Quantum-Dot Cellular Automatta

Akeela R., Wagh M.D., Lehigh University, US

We present a five input majority gate (MAJ5) designed in the quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) technology. Unlike previous designs, our design is planer, uses integral cell placement and allows inputs and outputs from the peripheral [...]

Opening of a tunable bandgap in graphene via oxygen plasma treatment: A building block for graphene-based electronics

Nourbakhsh A., Cantoro M., Klekachev A., De Gendt S., Sels B., IMEC, BE

The results of experiments devoted to the modification of the pristine electronic properties of single-layer graphene by means of an oxygen plasma will be illustrated. Electrical characterization and photoluminescence measurements are carried out to investigate [...]

Comprehensive Study on Reflectance of Si3N4 Subwavelength Structures for Silicon Solar Cell Applications Using 3D Finite Element Analysis

Lu Z-L, National Chiao Tung University, TW

Solar cell is one of the most promising renewable energy technologies in order to relieve the impact of the climate change. In semiconductor based solar cells, electron-hole pairs are generated via absorption of impinging photons. [...]

Artificial Nanostructure Materials for Optical Power Control Devices

Ofir Y., Donval A., Cheskis D., Fisher T., Oron M., KiloLambda, IL

The design of artificial nanostructured materials for the use in non-linear devices and integrated photonic systems is very challenging as it involves the need to incorporate the nanoparticles, nanomaterials and quantum physics equations. Near-field interactions [...]

Effects of Random Work Function Fluctuations in Nanoszied Metal Grains on Electrical Characteristic of 16 nm High-/Metal Gate Bulk FinFETs

Cheng H-W, Chiu Y-Y, Lee Y-H, Li Y., National Chiao Tung University, TW

High-/metal gate (HKMG) is one of key technologies for sub-45-nm generations in nano-CMOS era [1-2]. However, using HKMG may introduce random work functions (WKs) on device’s metal gate due to various metal grain orientations [3-5]. [...]

Effect of Thickness based on self-assembly of block copolymer

Lee S-W., Park N.R., Kim S.Y., Shin D.M., HongKong University, KR

Block copolymers have been investigated for fabricating functional nanomaterials due to their properties of self-assembly. We prepared polystyrene-b-poly(2-vinyl pyridine) (PS-b-P2VP) lamellar films which is hydrophobic block-hydrophilic polyelectrolyte block polymer have 57 kg/mol-b-57 kg/mol. The lamellar [...]

Novel Plasmon Coupled Nanophotonic Devices and Sensors Based on Encapsulated 2-D Silver Nanoparticle arrays

Tzeng Y., Liu C-Y, Chui H.C., Huang C., Tu C-H, Chen G.W.L., Chen S., Chen G.W.L., Chen S., Liang K-C, Chu Y., Chui H.C., National Cheng Kung University, TW

2-D silver nanoparticle arrays are encapsulated in transparent materials such as aluminum oxide, diamond, and graphene for applications to plasmonic coupling based optoelectronic devices and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) sensor for detection and identification [...]

Underlap Channel Nanoscale Dopant Segregated Schottky Barrier SOI MOSFET for Low Power Mixed Signal Circuits

Patil G.C., Qureshi S., Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, IN

In this paper, nanoscale dopant segregated Schottky barrier (DSSB) SOI MOSFET with underlap channel has been proposed for low power mixed signal circuit applications. The results show that, due to underlap lengths at both source/drain [...]

Variability Study for Silicon Nanowire FETs

Liao Y.-B., Chiang M-H, Kim K., Hsu W.-C., National Cheng Kung University, TW

3-D numerical simulation shows that both the conventional and JL nanowire FETs are sensitive to structural variation whereas the former is more tolerable. Due to more increased Ion/Ioff for lower D and WSi in JL, [...]

Biomolecular, Organic and Inorganic Processing Fabrics: Design and Synthesis of Processing Cells and Primitives

Lyshevski S.E., Rochester Institute of Technology, US

This paper focuses on solving various processing, networking, aggregation and interfacing problems by synthesizing, designing and utilizing molecular fabrics. The molecular processing platforms are comprised from modules, units and devices. For example, a brain neuron [...]

Rectifying properties of printed hybrid organic/inorganic diode on a flexible substrate

Lin J., Cui Z., Suzhou Institute of Nanotech, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN

Printing as an additive fabrication method has in recent years attracted a great deal of attentions both in research community and industrial sectors, because of its low-cost and the capability of manufacturing electronic devices on [...]

Single Molecule Quantum-Effect Electronic Devices

Lyshevski S.E., Rochester Institute of Technology, US

This paper examines multi-terminal quantum-effect devices. These devices are envisioned to be utilized in emerging molecular gates (Mgates) and neuronal hypercells for expected molecular integrated circuits. In addition to molecular-centered processing and memories, MEdevices are [...]

C-V Data and Geometry Parameters of Self-Assembled INAS/GAAS Quantum Rings

Filikhin I., Suslov V.M., Vlahovic B., North Carolina Central University, US

In present work we focus on these problems and on the interpretation of the recent CV data given in W. Lei, C. Notthoff, A. Lorke, D. Reuter and A. D. Wieck (Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, [...]

The interpretation of the conventional superconductivity on the basis of hypothesis of small polaron

Inoue A., Japan Atomic Energy Agency, JP

The mechanism of conventional superconductivity is well-known to be able to be explained on the basis of BCS theory which is based on the ambiguous correlation between a normal state and superconductive state of metals. [...]

Annealing effects on electrical and optical properties of

Faraz S.M., NED University of Engineering & Technology, PK

Annealing effects on the electrical and optical properties of ZnO nanorods/Si heterojunction diodes are studied. ZnO nanorods are grown on p-Si substrate by aquous chemical growth (ACG) method .As grown samples were annealed at 400 [...]

Characteristics of co-doped device with hole and electron transport material

Park N.R., Ryu G.Y., Lim D.H., Lee S.J., Kim Y.K., Shin D.M., Hong-ik University, KR

We demonstrated green organic lighte-emittin diodes (OLEDs) improved by co-doped using hole transport material, N′-bis-(1-naphyl)-N,N′-diphenyl-1,1′-biphenyl-4,4′-diamine (NPB) and electron transport material, bis(2-methyl-8-quninolinato)-4-phenylphenolate aluminum (Balq), into emitting layer. The co-doped materials impove charge blance by injecting hole [...]

Photon-Induced Biomolecular Sensing and Processing: Towards Engineering, Science and Medical Applications

Lyshevski S.E., Rochester Institute of Technology, US

This paper discusses and researches photon-induced sensing and processing exhibited by various vertebrates and invertebrates. In particular, rhodopsin photon receptor functionality and energetics are examined by applying quantum mechanics. We focus on fundamentals in order [...]

Nanoporous thin-film waveguide resonance sensors with wavelength interrogation over a broad bandwidth

Qi Z-M, Zhang Z., Liu Q., Lu D., Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN

Nanoporous dielectric film based leaky-mode waveguide resonance sensors have attracted considerable attention because of their interesting features [1-4]. Such sensors generally operate in the angular interrogation mode [1-3]. The first application of the wavelength interrogation [...]

VerilogA modeling and simulation of Memristor for circuit application

Xia D., He L., San Jose State University, US

In this work, we first investigated the switching mechanisms and the resistive switching behavior that take place in the memristor. Both the bipolar and unipolar switching behaviors are studied. The ionic transportation mechanism is used [...]

Self-assembled monolayer (SAMs) and electroplating process for Cu filling on 32-nm trench

Hong M., Hanyang University, KR

To improve the conformality of Cu seed layer prepared by ELD, we have also developed a novel activation technique by combining a self assembled monolayer (SAM) and Au catalyst. A coupling agent to anchor Au [...]

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