tunneling – TechConnect Briefs

Resonance Tunneling in Concentric Quantum Rings

Nimmo J., North Carolina Central University, US

In the present work, the phenomenon known as resonance tunneling due to the presents of a magnetic field perpendicular to the surface of double concentric rings (DCQR) is presented. It has shown that in the [...]

A Threshold Voltage Modeling for a Spacer Trapping Memory Cell Using Verilog-A

Shrimali H., Liberali V., Università degli Studi di Milano, IT

The threshold voltage of the flash memories varies with respect to the applied voltages at the respective terminal of a memory cell. This paper presents the modeling of the threshold voltage variation for an embedded [...]

A model to describe the hump-like feature observed in the accumulation branch of CV-characteristics of MOS capacitors with oxide-hosted Si nanoparticles

Stuchinsky V.A., Kamaev G.N., Efremov M.D., Arzhannikova S.A., Institute of Semiconductor Physics, RU

A simple model is presented to clarify the formation of a hump-like feature observed in the accumulation branch of CV-characteristics of MOS capacitors with oxide-hosted Si nanoparticles.

Compact Model of the Ballistic Subthreshold Current in Independent Double-Gate MOSFETs

Munteanu D., Moreau M., Autran J-L, L2MP-CNRS, FR

Double-Gate structures with independent gates have been recently proposed, allowing a four terminal operation. Independent Double-Gate (IDG) MOSFETs offer additional potentialities, such as a dynamic threshold voltage control by one of the two gates, transconductance [...]

Tunnel Field Effect Transistor (TFET) with Strained Silicon Thinfilm Body for Enhanced Drain Current and Pragmatic Threshold Voltage

Kumar M.J., Saurabh S., Indian Institute of Technology, IN

Quantum tunneling devices are very promising as they have very low leakage current and show good scalability. However, the most serious drawback for tunneling devices hampering their wide-scale CMOS application is their low on-current and [...]

Using Electron Tunneling for Direct Sequencing of DNA

Lund J., Dong J., Mehta R., Rahimi M., Ryan D., Parviz B.A., University of Washington, US

Genomic information has assumed a central role in the way biology in general and cell function in particular are understood today. Methods that can sequence DNA rapidly, accurately, and cost-effectively are needed in order to [...]

Room-Temperature InAlAs/InGaAs Planar Tunneling-coupled Transistor

Moon J-S., Rajavel R., Chow D., Bui S., Wong D., HRL Labs, US

In this talk, we report the first experimental demonstration of InAlAs/InGaAs planar tunneling-coupled transistors at room temperature, in which tunneling characteristics such as negative differential resistance (NDR) and peak current are controlled with high gain [...]

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