Publications related to Point-contact transistor

Pyroresistive response of percolating conductive polymer composites

The pyroresistive response of conductive polymer composites (CPCs) has attracted much interest because of its potential applications in many electronic devices requiring a significant responsiveness to changes in external physical parameters such as temper ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

Utilizing XMG-based Synthesis to Preserve Self-Duality for RFET-Based Circuits

Giovanni De Micheli, Heinz Riener, Alessandro Tempia Calvino, Shubham Rai, Akash Kumar

Individual transistors based on emerging reconfigurable nanotechnologies exhibit electrical conduction for both types of charge carriers. These transistors (referred to as Reconfigurable Field-Effect Transistors (RFETs)) enable dynamic reconfiguration to d ...

2022

Electronic transport in graphene nanoribbon junctions

Kristians Cernevics

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) - one-dimensional strips of graphene - share many of the exciting properties of graphene, such as ballistic transport over micron dimensions, strength and flexibility, but more importantly, they exhibit a tunable band gap that d ...

EPFL2022

Pushing the Limits of Efficiency and Power Density in High-Frequency Power Conversion Based on Wide-Band-Gap Technologies

Armin Jafari

The emergence of wide-band-gap (WBG) power transistors with low conduction losses and high-speed switching speeds has paved the way for more-than-ever efficient power electronics systems and huge energy saving potentials. Likewise, power density- the ratio ...

EPFL2021

A Cryogenic Broadband Sub-1-dB NF CMOS Low Noise Amplifier for Quantum Applications

Edoardo Charbon, Andrea Ruffino, Yatao Peng

A cryogenic broadband low noise amplifier (LNA) for quantum applications based on a standard 40-nm CMOS technology is reported. The LNA specifications are derived from the readout of semiconductor quantum bits at 4.2 K, whose quantum information signals ar ...

2021

Preserving Self-Duality During Logic Synthesis for Emerging Reconfigurable Nanotechnologies

Giovanni De Micheli, Heinz Riener, Shubham Rai, Akash Kumar

Emerging reconfigurable nanotechnologies allow the implementation of self-dual functions with a fewer number of transistors as compared to traditional CMOS technologies. To achieve better area results for Reconfigurable Field-Effect Transistors (RFET)-base ...

IEEE2021

A cryo-CMOS chip that integrates silicon quantum dots and multiplexed dispersive readout electronics

Edoardo Charbon, Andrea Ruffino, Yatao Peng

An integrated circuit fabricated using industry-standard 40 nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology can combine silicon quantum devices, digital addressing and analogue multiplexed dispersive readout electronics. ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

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

Analysis of Large-Signal Output Capacitance of Transistors using Sawyer–Tower Circuit

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Armin Jafari, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Georgios Kampitsis, Jessy Anthony Ançay

A detailed analysis on the Sawyer–Tower method used in the measurement of large-signal output capacitance (Co) of power transistors is presented, followed by important design recommendations to obtain accurate results. Key factors affecting the proper impl ...

2020

2-D Materials for Ultrascaled Field-Effect Transistors: One Hundred Candidates under the Ab Initio Microscope

Nicola Marzari, Davide Campi, Cédric Klinkert

Due to their remarkable properties, single-layer 2-D materials appear as excellent candidates to extend Moore's scaling law beyond the currently manufactured silicon FinFETs. However, the known 2-D semiconducting components, essentially transition metal di ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Output Capacitance Losses in Wide-Band-Gap Transistors: A Small-Signal Modeling Approach

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani

Wide-band-gap (WBG) power semiconductor devices are gaining an increasing interest in power circuits, as they exhibit a low specific ON-resistance (RON) while providing a high blocking voltage. The energy dissipation corresponding to resonantly charging an ...

IEEE2020

Degradation Mechanism and Stability Improvement of Dopant-Free ZnO/LiFx/Al Electron Nanocontacts in Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Wenjie Lin, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Julie Amandine Dreon, Vincent Philippe Paratte, Sihua Zhong

Dopant-free passivating contacts for photovoltaics have the potential to be deposited at low costs, while providing excellent surface passivation and low contact resistance. However, one pressing issue of dopant-free carrier selective contacts is their low ...

2020

Measurement of Large-Signal Coss and Coss Losses of Transistors Based on Nonlinear Resonance

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera

In this letter, we present a new measurement technique to evaluate the large-signal output capacitance ( COSS ) of transistors as well as the COSS energy dissipation ( EDISS ), based on the nonlinear resonance between a known inductor and the output capaci ...

2019

Exploration of Negative Capacitance Devices and Technologies

Ali Saeidi

Conventional device scaling has been the main guiding principle of the MOS device engineering over these past years. However, this aggressive scaling would be eventually limited due to the inability to remove the heat generated by MOSFET devices. The power ...

EPFL2019

Detection of ultra-low protein concentrations with the simplest possible field effect transistor

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Elizabeth Buitrago Godinez

Silicon nanowire (Si NW) sensors have attracted great attention due to their ability to provide fast, low-cost, label-free, real-time detection of chemical and biological species. Usually configured as field effect transistors (FETs), they have already dem ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

On the Dynamic Performance of Laterally Gated Transistors

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Catherine Erine, Giovanni Santoruvo, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani

Laterally gated transistors have been proposed as an innovative device architecture in which a semiconducting channel is controlled by side gates. In this sense, the gate can either be in contact with the sidewalls or be separated by a gap. In the latter c ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

Polarity-Controllable Devices and Circuits for Doping-Free 2D Electronics

Giovanni Vincenzo Resta

The growth of information technology has been sustained by the miniaturization of Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) Field-Effect Transistors (FETs), with the number of devices per unit area constantly increasing, as exemplified by Mooreâ s la ...

EPFL2019

Doping-free complementary inverter enabled by 2D WSe2 electrostatically-doped reconfigurable transistors

Giovanni De Micheli, Giovanni Vincenzo Resta, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon

Amongst 2-dimensional (2D) semiconductors of the transition-metal di-chalcogenide (TMDC) family [1], tungsten diselenide (WSe2) has shown ambipolar behavior [2], [3] coupled with high carrier mobility [4] and CMOS-like devices have been experimentally demo ...

IEEE2018

The Cryogenic Temperature Behavior of Bipolar, MOS, and DTMOS Transistors in Standard CMOS

Edoardo Charbon, Harald Arjan Robert Homulle, Fabio Sebastiano

Both CMOS bandgap voltage references and temperature sensors rely on the temperature behavior of either CMOS substrate BJTs or MOS transistors in weak inversion. Bipolar transistors are generally preferred over MOS transistors because of their lower spread ...

2018

Development of a monolithic near-field optomechanical system

Ryan Daniel Schilling

In the same year as Einstein's annus mirabilis, English engineer and physicist John Flemming patented the first rectifying diode, which he called the "Flemming valve". Einstein's work on the photoelectric effect would change our understanding of the nature ...

EPFL2018