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Tunnel diode

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Modeling and optimization of Tunnel-FET architectures exploiting carrier gas dimensionality

The semiconductor industry, governed by the Moore's law, has achieved the almost unbelievable feat of exponentially increasing performance while lowering the costs for years. The main enabler for this achievement has been the scaling of the CMOS transistor ...

EPFL2017

Input-Series and Output-Series High Voltage Converter with Active Balancing Circuit for N-1 Operation

Alfred Rufer, Tiago Alexandre Nabais Lima

An input-series/output-series converter dedicated to high power applications is presented. The converter is composed of plural MF transformers based on DC-DC sub-converters. The series connection allows reaching input-voltage levels in the range of several ...

Ieee2016

III-V Nanowire Hetero-junction Tunnel FETs integrated on Si

Davide Cutaia

In the last decade the power consumption of electronic devices has increased for both static and active components. Following the Dennard's scaling rule, as long as the transistor sizes are reduced then the supply voltage (VDD) can also be scaled in order ...

EPFL2016

Backward diodes using heavily Mg-doped GaN growth by ammonia molecular-beam epitaxy

Nicolas Grandjean, Marco Malinverni, Denis Martin, Hironori Okumura

We grew heavily Mg-doped GaN using ammonia molecular-beam epitaxy. The use of low growth temperature (740 degrees C) allows decreasing the incorporation of donor-like defects (

Amer Inst Physics2016

Semiconductor tunneling device

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Cem Alper, Luca De Michielis, Livio Lattanzio, Nilay Dagtekin

The present invention concerns a semiconductor tunneling Field-Effect device including a source, a drain, at least one elongated semiconductor structure extending in an elongated direction, a first gate, and a second gate. The first gate has a length exten ...

2016

Electronic transport properties of vertical and lateral graphene-based heterostructures

Roberto Urcuyo Solorzano

Graphene has some drawbacks, like the absence of an electronic band gap which leads to only small gate switching ratios, and its fast carrier recombination that limits its use in optoelectronics. In order to overcome these issues, the aim of this thesis wa ...

EPFL2016

Principle and modelling of Transient Current Technique for interface traps characterization in monolithic pixel detectors obtained by CMOS-compatible wafer bonding

Jean-Michel Sallese, Alessandro Mapelli

In the framework of monolithic silicon radiation detectors, a fabrication process based on a recently developed silicon wafer bonding technique at low temperature was proposed. Ideally, this new process would enable direct bonding of a read-out electronic ...

Institute of Physics2016

Optical and transport properties of GaN/(Al,Ga)N heterostructures in prospect of infrared unipolar devices

Etienne François Olivier Giraud

Over the past decade, a growing interest appeared for III-nitride semiconductors, in view of their potential applications in intersubband (ISB) devices. If these materials are nowadays famous, particularly for having revolutionized domestic lighting thanks ...

EPFL2015

A Low Dark Count p-i-n Diode Based SPAD in CMOS Technology

Edoardo Charbon

In this paper, a novel CMOS single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) is presented, and the device is designed using a vertical p-i-n diode construction. The p-i-n diode with a wide depletion region enables a low-noise operation. The proposed design achieves da ...

2015