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A Piezoresistive MEMS Memory Device Using a Buckled Beam

Yang J.A., Shuvra P.D., Lin J-T., Walsh K., McNamara S., Alphenaar B., University of Texas at Austin, US

Microelectronics and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) have given rise to a large class of new de- vices, from ultra-miniature sensors for cell phones and automobiles to complex memory devices for computers. Recent research in memory devices [...]

Numerical Method to Simulate GFET Terahertz Wave Detection

Ma X., He J., He X., Li C., He J., He X., Jun P., Hu G., Ren Y., Wang X., SoC Key Laboratory, Peking University Shenzhen Institute and PKU-HKUST Shenzhen-Hong Kong Institution, CN

A numerical method to simulate THz wave generation and detection of the graphene base field effect transistor (GFET) is developed in this paper. It is derived directly from the hydrodynamic equations and implemented in Matlab [...]

An Effective Mobility Model for Tunneling Double-Gate MOSFET (T-FinFET)

He J., He X., Pan J., Liu J., Li C., Liu J., Hu G., Ma G., He J., He X., Chan M., SoC Key Laboratory, Peking University Shenzhen Institute and PKU-HKUST Shenzhen-Hong Kong Institution, CN

We have derived an analytical model for the effective field (Eeff) model of undoped Ultra-Thin Body (UTB) Double Gate (DG) SOI Tunneling MOSFETs ( T-FinFET) from the solution of the Poisson’s equation in this paper [...]

A model for an Optical Ring Microresonator towards Nanoparticle Detection

Ahmeti F., Teker K., Istanbul Sehir University, TR

Optical resonators have shown great potential as fundamental building blocks, in a wide range of photonic devices and applications including filters, optical multiplexers, logic gates, switches and sensors. A microresonator is defined by a micron-scale [...]

Modeling of Minibands for Si/SC Quantum Dot Superlattice Solar Cells

Tsai Y-C., Lee M-Y., Li Y., Samukawa S., National Chiao Tung University, TW

Silicon/silicon carbide quantum dot superlattice (Si / SiC QDSL) solar cells with aluminum oxide (Al2O3) passivation experimentally show high short-circuit current (Jsc) of 4.75 mA/cm2. Corresponding numerical result reveals that both the quantum enhancement on [...]

Mobility Enhancement from Process-Induced Stress of T-FinFET and Compact Model Development

He J., Peking University Shenzhen SoC Key Lab., CN

It is an often measure that the process-induced stress has been used in advanced CMOS process platform to increase the carrier mobility so to enhance MOSFET performance. It has also a strong effect on the [...]

MedeA: An environment for ICME starting with atoms, and what we can learn from it

Saxe P., Materials Design, Inc., US

ICME is a grand vision, but there is an enormous amount of work needed to bring together experiment and simulation across the entire spectrum of length- and time-scales to go from atoms to cars, airplanes, [...]

Analysis, Modeling and Characterization of Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

Lyshevski S.E., Reis R.M., Rochester Institute of Technology, US

In biomedical devices, cell phones, computer and tablets, consumer electronics, communication, security and even micro air vehicles, energy harvesting, energy storage and energy management are of a significant importance. In many applications, solar cells and [...]

Thermodynamic/heat transfer of n-eicosane in silica nano-porous materials

Zhou X., Georgia Institute of Technology, US

This study mainly involved the fabrication of n-eicosane/silica nanocomposite and modeling of combined thermodynamic/heat transfer based on the prepared composite structure and measured thermo-physical data. we performed combined thermodynamic/heat transfer analysis to obtain the total [...]

Epoxy/Silica Nanocomposite: Effect of Silica Nanoparticles, Thermal Stability, and Modeling of the Curing Kinetics

Rahim Vaseghi M., Arabli V., Aghili A., Islamic Azad University, IR

A nanocomposite was synthesized using silica nanoparticles (SN) and Epoxy Vinyl Ester Resin (VE671). Nanoparticles were dispersed in the mixture by ultrasonic equipment to prevent the agglomeration. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) was used to investigate [...]