Schmid A. – TechConnect Briefs

Breath acetone monitoring by portable Si:WO3 gas sensors

Righettoni M., Tricoli A., Gass S., Schmid A., Amann A., Pratsinis S.E., ETH Zürich, CH

Breath analysis has the potential for early stage detection and monitoring of illnesses to drastically reduce the corresponding medical diagnostic costs. In particular, the detection of acetone in the human breath is promising for non-invasive [...]

Advanced physics for simulation of ultrascaled devices with UTOXPP Solver

Garetto D., Rideau D., Tavernier C., Leblebiciand Y., Schmid A., Jaouen H., IBM corp., FR

As the conventional scaling down of MOSFET dimensions faces physical and economical limits, the performances of novel solutions such as high-K dielectrics, mechanical strain and substrate orientation or alternative device structures, such as fully-depleted SOI [...]

Modeling study of capacitance and gate current in strained High–K Metal gate technology: impact of Si/SiO2/HK interfacial layer and band structure model

Garetto D., Rideau D., Dornel E., Clark W.F., Tavernier C., Leblebici Y., Schmid A., Jaouen H., IBM France, FR

The importance of developing predictive modeling tools has considerably increased with the diffusion of nanoscale technologies, in which strained layers and heterojunctions determine the materials modeling complexity. A self--consistent Poisson--Schroedinger solver based on a full-band [...]

Embedded non–volatile memory study with surface potential based model

Garetto D., Zaka A., Quenette V., Rideau D., Dornel E., Clark W.F., Minondo M., Tavernier C., Rafhay Q., Clerc R., Schmid A., Leblebici Y., Jaouen H., STMicroelectronics, FR

Coupling coefficients calculation is known to be a critical issue in Non-Volatile Memory cell compact modelling. To this purpose, the accuracy of the capacitive network method can be significantly improved using the charge balance method, [...]