Publications related to Subthreshold conduction

Polarization-enhanced GaN Schottky barrier diodes: Ultra-thin InGaN for high breakdown voltage and low Ron

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Zheng Hao, Alessandro Floriduz

In this work, we present a concept that leverages the strong piezoelectric polarization field in InGaN, which counteracts the external electric field at reverse bias. We show that despite the smaller InGaN band-gap and lower critical electric field, its st ...

2024

Monitoring of Protein and pH Levels in Human Biofluids using FD-SOI Silicon Nanowire Arrays

Luca Capua

Medical research and technological advancements are heading towards tailored healthcare approaches that prioritize individual needs, allowing for more accurate diagnoses, more effective treatments, and better patient outcomes overall. One such approach is ...

EPFL2023

Polariton lasing in AlGaN microring with GaN/AlGaN quantum wells

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté

Microcavity polaritons are strongly interacting hybrid light-matter quasiparticles, which are promising for the development of novel light sources and active photonic devices. Here, we report polariton lasing in the UV spectral range in microring resonator ...

AIP Publishing2023

THE PHASE TRANSITION FOR PLANAR GAUSSIAN PERCOLATION MODELS WITHOUT FKG

Alejandro Rivera

We develop techniques to study the phase transition for planar Gaussian percolation models that are not (necessarily) positively correlated. These models lack the property of positive associations (also known as the 'FKG inequality'), and hence many classi ...

Inst Mathematical Statistics-Ims2023

High-Temperature HEMT Mode

Farzan Jazaeri, Nika Sahebghalam

Taking into account the impact of self-heating and temperature rise effects, this work presents a physics-based analytical model for HEMTs, operating continuously from room temperature to high temperatures in linear and saturation regimes. Relying on the c ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Correlation between conduction velocity and frequency analysis in patients with atrial fibrillation using high-density charge mapping

Jean-Marc Vesin, Lam Dang

Spectral analysis of atrial signals has been used to identify regions of interest in atrial fibrillation (AF). However, the relationship to the atrial substrate is unclear. In this study, we compare regions with dominant frequency (DF), simultaneously dete ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2022

Adaptive Body Biasing in Strong Body Factor Technologies

Thomas Christoph Müller

With the advent of intelligent sensor nodes in everyday life, low power aspects of system design become more and more important. Adaptive body biasing is a promising methodology to achieve dynamic adaptation of the tradeoff between performance and energy b ...

EPFL2021

P-GaN Tri-Gate MOS Structure for Normally-Off GaN Power Transistors

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Jun Ma, Luca Nela, Catherine Erine, Minghua Zhu, Pirouz Sohi, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani

In this letter, we present a new concept for normally-off AlGaN/GaN-on-Si MOS-HEMTs based on the combination of p-GaN, tri-gate and MOS structures to achieve high threshold voltage (V-TH) and low on-resistance (R-ON). The p-GaN is used to engineer the band ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

A hybrid III-V tunnel FET and MOSFET technology platform integrated on silicon

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Kirsten Emilie Moselund, Clarissa Convertino

InGaAs/GaAsSb tunnelling field-effect transistors and InGaAs metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors can be integrated on the same silicon substrate using conventional CMOS-compatible processes, creating a platform for potential use in low-power ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

High Tuning Range Spiking 1R-1T VO2 Voltage-Controlled Oscillator for Integrated RF and Optical Sensing

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Teodor Rosca, Fatemeh Qaderi Rahaqi

In this work we propose and experimentally validate a relaxation spiking oscillator architecture with ultra-high tuning range (higher than 400%, from 5KHz to more than 25kHz when the control voltage is varied from 2.5 to 5V) that exploits the reversible me ...

IEEE2021

Intrinsic switching in Si-doped HfO2: A study of Curie-Weiss law and its implications for negative capacitance field-effect transistor

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Igor Stolichnov, Ali Saeidi, Teodor Rosca, Eamon Patrick O'Connor, Matteo Cavalieri, Carlotta Gastaldi, Sadegh Kamaei Bahmaei

HfO2-based ferroelectrics are considered a promising class of materials for logic and memory applications due to their CMOS compatibility and ferroelectric figures of merit. A steep-slope field-effect-transistor (FET) switch is a device for logic applicati ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2021

TID Degradation Mechanisms in 16-nm Bulk FinFETs Irradiated to Ultrahigh Doses

Christian Enz

This article investigates the total ionizing dose (TID) degradation mechanisms of 16-nm bulk Si FinFETs at ultrahigh doses. n- and p-FinFETs with several channel lengths are irradiated up to 1 Grad(SiO2) and then annealed for 24 h at 100 degrees C. Irradia ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Characterization and Modeling of Total Ionizing Dose Effects on Nanoscale MOSFETs for Particle Physics Experiments

Chunmin Zhang

Total ionizing radiation compromises electrical characteristics of microelectronic devices and even causes functional failures of integrated circuits. It has been identified as a potential threat to electronic components, especially those in high-energy ph ...

EPFL2021

Cryogenic MOSFET Modeling for Large-Scale Quantum Computing

Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers

Promising results of state-of-the-art quantum computers fuel a world-wide effort in academic and private research laboratories to scale up the number of qubits and improve their characteristics in large arrays. To meet the scale-up challenge, innovative mi ...

EPFL2021

In-depth Cryogenic Characterization of 22 nm FDSOI Technology for Quantum Computation

Edoardo Charbon, Christian Enz, Farzan Jazaeri, Hung-Chi Han, Antonio D'Amico

In this paper, the influence of temperature and back-gate bias is experimentally investigated on 22 nm FDSOI CMOS process. Cryogenic DC characterization was carried out under various back-gate voltages, V back , from 2.95 K back to 300 K. An abrupt drop-of ...

IEEE2021

Deep-UV approaches and printing of indium zinc oxide thin-film transistors targeting their processing on thermosensitive substrates

Alessio Mancinelli

Novel metal-oxides (MOx) semiconductors for thin-film transistors (TFTs) are being developed as they can offer superior electric performances over organic-based counterparts. MOx TFTs processed on foil could be exploited in smart labels as RFID and NFC tag ...

EPFL2021

Subthreshold Mismatch in Nanometer CMOS at Cryogenic Temperatures

Edoardo Charbon, Fabio Sebastiano

Cryogenic device models are essential for the reliable design of the cryo-CMOS electronic interface necessary to build future large-scale quantum computers. This paper reports the characterization of the drain-current mismatch of NMOS and PMOS devices fabr ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Deep-UV-Enhanced Approach for Low-Temperature Solution Processing of IZO Transistors with High-k AlOx/YAlOx Dielectric

Danick Briand, Jaemin Kim, Alessio Mancinelli

Solution processing is an attractive alternative to standard vacuum fabrication techniques for the large-area manufacturing of metal oxide (MOx)-based electron devices. Here, we report on thin-film transistors (TFTs) based on a solution-processed indium zi ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Investigation of p-GaN tri-Gate normally-Off GaN Power MOSHEMTs

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Jun Ma, Minghua Zhu

In this work, we present the investigation of the combination of p-GaN gate and tri-gate structures to achieve normally-off operation on GaN-on-Si MOSFETs. We have developed and optimized a selective and low-damage p-GaN etching recipe to stop at the AlGaN ...

IEEE2020

WSe2/SnSe2 vdW heterojunction Tunnel FET with subthermionic characteristic and MOSFET co-integrated on same WSe2 flake

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Matteo Cavalieri, Nicolò Oliva, Luca Capua

Two-dimensional/two-dimensional (2D/2D) heterojunctions form one of the most versatile technological solutions for building tunneling field effect transistors because of the sharp and potentially clean interfaces resulting from van der Waals assembly. Seve ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020