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Microcavity polaritons are strongly interacting hybrid light-matter quasiparticles, which are promising for the development of novel light sources and active photonic devices. Here, we report polariton lasing in the UV spectral range in microring resonator ...

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We develop techniques to study the phase transition for planar Gaussian percolation models that are not (necessarily) positively correlated. These models lack the property of positive associations (also known as the 'FKG inequality'), and hence many classi ...

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High-Temperature HEMT Mode

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Taking into account the impact of self-heating and temperature rise effects, this work presents a physics-based analytical model for HEMTs, operating continuously from room temperature to high temperatures in linear and saturation regimes. Relying on the c ...

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Correlation between conduction velocity and frequency analysis in patients with atrial fibrillation using high-density charge mapping

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Spectral analysis of atrial signals has been used to identify regions of interest in atrial fibrillation (AF). However, the relationship to the atrial substrate is unclear. In this study, we compare regions with dominant frequency (DF), simultaneously dete ...

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Adaptive Body Biasing in Strong Body Factor Technologies

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With the advent of intelligent sensor nodes in everyday life, low power aspects of system design become more and more important. Adaptive body biasing is a promising methodology to achieve dynamic adaptation of the tradeoff between performance and energy b ...

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P-GaN Tri-Gate MOS Structure for Normally-Off GaN Power Transistors

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In this letter, we present a new concept for normally-off AlGaN/GaN-on-Si MOS-HEMTs based on the combination of p-GaN, tri-gate and MOS structures to achieve high threshold voltage (V-TH) and low on-resistance (R-ON). The p-GaN is used to engineer the band ...

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A hybrid III-V tunnel FET and MOSFET technology platform integrated on silicon

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InGaAs/GaAsSb tunnelling field-effect transistors and InGaAs metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors can be integrated on the same silicon substrate using conventional CMOS-compatible processes, creating a platform for potential use in low-power ...

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High Tuning Range Spiking 1R-1T VO2 Voltage-Controlled Oscillator for Integrated RF and Optical Sensing

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Intrinsic switching in Si-doped HfO2: A study of Curie-Weiss law and its implications for negative capacitance field-effect transistor

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HfO2-based ferroelectrics are considered a promising class of materials for logic and memory applications due to their CMOS compatibility and ferroelectric figures of merit. A steep-slope field-effect-transistor (FET) switch is a device for logic applicati ...

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Characterization and Modeling of Total Ionizing Dose Effects on Nanoscale MOSFETs for Particle Physics Experiments

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Cryogenic MOSFET Modeling for Large-Scale Quantum Computing

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Subthreshold Mismatch in Nanometer CMOS at Cryogenic Temperatures

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Investigation of p-GaN tri-Gate normally-Off GaN Power MOSHEMTs

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In this work, we present the investigation of the combination of p-GaN gate and tri-gate structures to achieve normally-off operation on GaN-on-Si MOSFETs. We have developed and optimized a selective and low-damage p-GaN etching recipe to stop at the AlGaN ...

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WSe2/SnSe2 vdW heterojunction Tunnel FET with subthermionic characteristic and MOSFET co-integrated on same WSe2 flake

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Matteo Cavalieri, Nicolò Oliva, Luca Capua

Two-dimensional/two-dimensional (2D/2D) heterojunctions form one of the most versatile technological solutions for building tunneling field effect transistors because of the sharp and potentially clean interfaces resulting from van der Waals assembly. Seve ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020