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Investigation of Robust Fully-Silicided NMOSFETs for Sub-100 nm ESD Protection Circuits Design

Lee J.W., Tang H., Li Y., Natl Nano Device Labs & Natl Chiao Tung Univ, TW

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) becomes an important issue in vary large scaled integrated (VLSI) circuit design and manufacture, especially for the ultra-thin oxide nano-devices [1-3]. It results from a fact that the gate oxide will be [...]

A Study of the Threshold Voltage Variations for Ultra-thin Body Double Gate SOI MOSFETs

Tang C-S, Lo S-C, Lee J.W., Tsai J-H, Li Y., Natl Nano Device Labs & Natl Chiao Tung Univ, TW

Double gate silicon on insulator (SOI) devices are more and more attractive for sub-50 nm ultra-large scaled integrated (ULSI) circuits manufacturing. The double gate SOI devices, owing to a difficulty of manufacturing uniformity, suffer fluctuations [...]

Spin-orbit Interaction and Energy States in Nanoscale Semiconductor Quantum Rings

Li Y., Natl Nano Device Labs & Natl Chiao Tung Univ, TW

We investigate the effect of spin-orbit interaction on the electron energy states in nanoscale semiconductor quantum rings. The effective one-band Hamiltonian approximation with the spin-dependent Ben Daniel-Duke boundary conditions is formulated and solved numerically. Due [...]

Quantum Dots/Conductive Polymer Nanocomposite

Chen C-M, Chen H-S, Huang H-C, Chen C-M, Chen H-S, ITRI, TW

The nanocomposite composed of CdSe quantum dots and conductive polymer (MDMO-PPV) was investigated. The spherical 3.8-nm functionalized CdSe quantum dots were synthesized by colloidal chemical method. The conductive polymer MDMO-PPV was synthesized from 1-methoxyl-4-(3,7dimethyl-octanoxyl)benzene and [...]

Superposition Behavior in Babinet’s Effect on the Nano Au Particles Patterns

Wu S-C, Chen C-F, Chen H-L, Chao W-C, Chen C-F, Chen H-L, National Nano Device Laboratories, TW

The individual Babinet effect [1] in two types of complementary patterns can be added on a composed pattern mixed both patterns under the FTIR (Fourier Transform Infer-Red) spectroscopy measuring. That is the Babinet spectrum on [...]

Parallelization of BEM Electrostatic Solver Using a PC Cluster

Tang H-K, Yang Y-J, National Taiwan University, TW

In this paper, the application of parallel-processing techniques for electrostatic calculation is presented. Evaluating the pre-conditioner used for inverting the system matrix of a boundary-element-method (BEM) electrostatic solver (Fastlap) is one of the most time [...]

Investigation of dsDNA Stretching Meso-mechanics using Finite Element Method

Yuan C.A., Chiang K.N., National Tsing Hua University, TW

A novel finite element model with equivalent meso-mechanics theory is proposed herein to simulate the dynamic structural transitions of the double strand DNA (dsDNA) under external loading. Moreover, the meso-mechanics of dsDNA molecules is then [...]

Guidelines of Creating Krylov-subspace Macromodels for Lateral Viscous Damping Effects

Yen P-C, Yang Y-J, National Taiwan University, TW

It is well known that modeling 3-D lateral viscous damping effects requires considerable computational resources. Therefore, earlier works on lateral viscous damping were based on the 1-D analytical Stokes and Couette flow solutions [1,2]. Recently, [...]

Characterization of an Electro-thermal Microactuator with Multi-lateral Motion in Plane

Pan C.H., Chen Y.K., Chang C.L., National Chin-Yi Institute of Technology, TW

We present a new electro-thermal microactuator to have multi-lateral motion in plane by only varying voltage potentials at the contact pads. To extend the operating function, the larger operating range or multi-mode switch, relay and [...]

Characterization and Modeling of Silicon Tapered Inductors

Peng A.S., Chen H.Y., Chen K.M., Huang G.W., Wang S.C., Chen H.Y., Chen K.M., Chang C.Y., National Nano Device Laboratories, TW

The characteristics of tapered inductors and standard inductors have been compared, and an improved compact model for tapered inductors is presented. The measured data of spiral inductors shows that the tapered inductor has higher quality [...]