Publications related to Invention of the integrated circuit

Controlling On-Surface Photoactivity: The Impact of π-Conjugation in Anhydride-Functionalized Molecules on a Semiconductor Surface

On-surface synthesis has become a prominent method for growing low-dimensional carbon-based nanomaterials on metal surfaces. However, the necessity of decoupling organic nanostructures from metal substrates to exploit their properties requires either trans ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2024

Towards Scalable Electronics: Synthetic 2D Materials for Large-Area 2D Circuit Integration

Zhenyu Wang

In the past decades, a significant increase of the transistor density on a chip has led to exponential growth in computational power driven by Moore's law. To overcome the bottleneck of traditional von-Neumann architecture in computational efficiency, effo ...

EPFL2024

Edge-Contact MoS2 Transistors Fabricated Using Thermal Scanning Probe Lithography

Jürgen Brugger, Giovanni Boero, Xia Liu, Ana Conde Rubio

The science and engineering of two-dimensional materials (2DMs), in particular, of 2D semiconductors, is advancing at a thriving pace. It is well known that these delicate few-atoms thick materials can be damaged during the processing toward their integrat ...

2022

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

ANTIGONE: A Programmable Energy-Efficient Current Digitizer for an ISFET Wearable Sweat Sensing System

Maher Kayal, Evgenia Voulgari, François Krummenacher

This article describes the design and the characterization of the ANTIGONE (ANalog To dIGital cONvErter) ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) built in AMS 0.35 m technology for low dc-current sensing. This energy-efficient ASIC was specifically d ...

2021

Laser soliton microcombs heterogeneously integrated on silicon

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Zeyu Zhang, Chao Xiang, Zeyu Zhang

Silicon photonics enables wafer-scale integration of optical functionalities on chip. Silicon-based laser frequency combs can provide integrated sources of mutually coherent laser lines for terabit-per-second transceivers, parallel coherent light detection ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2021

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

InAs-on-Insulator Fin Nanostructures for Integrated Computation and Sensing Functions

Maneesha Rupakula

Field-effect transistors (FETs) have established themselves as a leading platform for electrical detection of chemical and biological species. Their advantages over other optical, mechanical sensing platforms are attributed to being miniaturizable, mechani ...

EPFL2020

Reduction of Fermi level pinning at Cu-BP interfaces by atomic passivation

Xiao Zhou, Cheng Chen, Pengfei Ou

Black phosphorus (BP) is a semiconducting material with a direct finite band gap in its monolayer, attracting intense attention for its application in field-effect transistors. However, strong Fermi level pinning (FLP) has been observed for contacts betwee ...

2019

Tri-gate technologies for high-performance power GaN devices

Jun Ma

GaN-based electronic devices have great potential for future power applications, thanks to their wide band-gap, high breakdown electric field, and high electron mobility. In addition, these devices can be integrated on large-size Si substrates and enable n ...

EPFL2019

Doping-Free Complementary Logic Gates Enabled by Two-Dimensional Polarity-Controllable Transistors

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

Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials belonging to transition metal dichalcogenides, due to their physical and electrical properties, are an exceptional vector for the exploration of next-generation semiconductor devices. Among them, due to the po ...

2018

A High-PDE, Backside-Illuminated SPAD in 65/40-nm 3D IC CMOS Pixel With Cascoded Passive Quenching and Active Recharge

Edoardo Charbon, Scott Anthony Lindner, Martin Wolf

We present a complete pixel based on a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) fabricated in a backside-illuminated (BSI) 3D IC technology. The chip stack comprises an image sensing tier produced in a 65-nm image sensor technology and a data processing tier i ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Electronic Transport in 2D Materials with Strong Spin-orbit Coupling

Artem Pulkin

The thesis describes the computational study of structural, electonic and transport properties of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) in the stable 2H and the metastable 1T' phases. Several aspects have been covered by the study including the ...

EPFL2017

Free-standing electronic character of monolayer

Andras Kis, Dumitru Dumcenco, Olivier Renault, Yen-Cheng Kung, Ming-Wei Chen, Hokwon Kim

We have evaluated as-grown MoS2 crystals, epitaxially grown on a monocrystalline sapphire by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), with direct electronic band-structure measurements by energy-filtered k-space photoelectron emission microscopy performed with a c ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Robustness Analysis of Controllable-Polarity Silicon Nanowire Devices and Circuits

Hassan Ghasemzadeh Mohammadi

Substantial downscaling of the feature size in current CMOS technology has confronted digital designers with serious challenges including short channel effect and high amount of leakage power. To address these problems, emerging nano-devices, e.g., Silicon ...

EPFL2016

Graphene quantum capacitors for high-Q tunable LC-tanks for RF ICs

Juan Ramon Mosig, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Clara-Fausta Moldovan, Michele Tamagnone, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale

We propose and characterize graphene quantum capacitors, tunable with voltage by the control of their charge density, for tunable LC tanks as essential building blocks for Radio-Frequency (RF) functions in densely integrated circuits. We fabricate and inve ...

IEEE2016

Microfluidic Scintillation Detectors for High Energy Physics

Pietro Maoddi

This thesis deals with the development and study of microfluidic scintillation detectors, a technology of recent introduction for the detection of high energy particles. Most of the interest for such devices comes from the use of a liquid scintillator, whi ...

EPFL2015

Role of the gate in ballistic nanowire SOI MOSFETs

Christian Enz, Jean-Michel Sallese, Anurag Mangla

In this paper we report the results of Monte-Carlo simulations performed on double-gate ballistic MOSFETs with a geometry such that the gates overlap only a fraction of the channel. We present a qualitative analysis of the simulation results highlighting t ...

Elsevier2015

Modeling Junctionless Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor

Farzan Jazaeri

Metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) field-effect transistor (FET) scaling is following the prediction of the Moore's law for the past 45 years, a key factor that enabled the IC industry to cope with the everlasting demand for higher performances. However, this ...

EPFL2015

Submicrometer Organic Thin-Film Transistors: Technology Assessment Through Noise Margin Analysis of Inverters

Christian Enz, Jean-Michel Sallese, Rolando Ferrini, Franz Xaver Pengg, Nenad Marjanovic, Frédéric Zanella

In this paper, we propose a methodology to evaluate the potential of submicrometer organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) with nanoimprinted gate and self-aligned source and drain contacts. In the first step, the dedicated static model we previously reporte ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014