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Advanced analysis of fully-printed organic transistors platform for multi-ion detection in sweat

Danick Briand, Silvia Demuru, Jaemin Kim, Xi Chen, Brince Paul Kunnel

Organic electrochemical transistors are emerging as prominent biochemical sensors for multi-sensing, including ions, metabolites, hormones, or viruses. However, the implementation of the devices is mainly limited to a single-analyte detection and a single- ...

Elsevier BV2025

Controlling On-Surface Photoactivity: The Impact of π-Conjugation in Anhydride-Functionalized Molecules on a Semiconductor Surface

Christian Wäckerlin

On-surface synthesis has become a prominent method for growing low-dimensional carbon-based nanomaterials on metal surfaces. However, the necessity of decoupling organic nanostructures from metal substrates to exploit their properties requires either trans ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2024

Nonhysteretic Condition in Negative Capacitance Junctionless FETs

Jean-Michel Sallese, Farzan Jazaeri, Amin Rassekh

This article analyzes the design space stability of negative capacitance double-gate junctionless field-effect transistors (NCDG JLFETs). Using analytical expressions derived from a charge-based model, we predict instability condition, hysteresis voltage, ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Optimized electrochemical breakdown etching using temporal voltage variation for formation of nanopores in a silicon membrane

Miao Zhang

Dielectric breakdown etching is a well-known method of making nanopores on thin (similar to 50 nm) dielectric membranes. However, voltage driven translocation of biomolecules through such nanopores becomes extremely fast. For improved detection, for instan ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021

H-terminated polycrystalline diamond p-channel transistors on GaN-on-Silicon

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Reza Soleiman Zadeh Ardebili, Riyaz Mohammed Abdul Khadar, Mehdi Naamoun

In many semiconductor technologies, including GaN, the lack of p-channel devices is a major obstacle for complementary operations. Here, we demonstrate high-performance polycrystalline diamond p-channel transistors on GaN-on-Si. Following the optimization ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

Novel Slanted Field Plate Technology for GaN HEMTs by Grayscale Lithography on Flowable Oxide

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Jun Ma, Luca Nela, Taifang Wang

We report a novel process to achieve slanted field plate (S-FP), which is a field plate with a gradual increase thickness from gate edge towards drain - utilizing grayscale lithography on flowable oxide (FOX) in single process step, in which developed FOX ...

IEEE2019

High, Anisotropic, and Substrate-Independent Mobility in Polymer Field-Effect Transistors Based on Preassembled Semiconducting Nanofibrils

Laura Ferlauto

Achieving nanoscale control over the crystalline structure and morphology of electroactive polymer films and the possibility to transfer them onto any solid substrate are important tasks for the fabrication of highperformance organic/polymeric field-effect ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Modeling Parasitic Vertical PNP in HVCMOS

Maher Kayal, Jean-Michel Sallese, Camillo Stefanucci, Pietro Buccella

High voltage CMOS active devices inherently have a parasitic vertical bipolar transistor. The parasitic PNP structure can be activated during high-power switching operation causing a potential shift of the substrate. In this work a spice-modeling approach ...

IEEE2015

Leakage mechanisms and contact technologies in InAlN/GaN high electron mobility transistors

Lorenzo Lugani

GaN based electronic devices have progressed rapidly over the past decades and are nowadays starting to replace Si and classical III-V semiconductors in power electronics systems and high power RF amplifiers. AlGaN/GaN heterostructures have been, until rec ...

EPFL2015

New Data Structures and Algorithms for Logic Synthesis and Verification

Luca Gaetano Amarù

The strong interaction between Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools and Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology contributed substantially to the advancement of modern digital electronics. The continuous downscaling of CMOS Field Effec ...

EPFL2015

Configurable Logic Gates Using Polarity Controlled Silicon Nanowire Gate-All-Around FETs

Giovanni De Micheli, Yusuf Leblebici, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Davide Sacchetto, Jian Zhang, Michele De Marchi

This work demonstrates the first fabricated 4-transistor logic gates using polarity-configurable, gate-all- around silicon nanowire transistors. This technology enhances conventional CMOS functionality by adding the degree of free- dom of dynamic polarity ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Trans-Capacitance Modeling in Junctionless Gate-All-Around Nanowire FETs

Jean-Michel Sallese, Farzan Jazaeri, Lucian Barbut

In this letter, we derive an analytical model for trans-capacitances in Junctionless Nanowire Field Effect Transistors (JL NW FET). As for static operation, we show that a complete small signal capacitance network can be built upon an equivalence scheme re ...

Elsevier2014

Low-cost, CMOS compatible, Ta2O5-based hemi-memristor for neuromorphic circuits

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara

In the past, tantalum oxide devices have been used to create non-volatile digital memories, whilst neglecting the analogue memristive characteristics of such devices. In this Letter, it is shown that these devices can provide a low-cost, low-power solution ...

Institution of Engineering and Technology2012

Self-Aligned Lateral Dual-Gate Suspended-Body Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Ji Cao

Self-aligned lateral dual-gate suspended-body single-walled carbon nanotube (CNT) field-effect transistors (CNFETs) have been demonstrated. A nano-precision assembly method using resist-assisted ac-dielectrophoresis is applied. Superior I-V characteristics ...

American Institute of Physics2012

In-IC Strategies for 3D Devices in Bulk Silicon

Matthieu Bopp

The increase of components density in advanced microelectronics is practically dictated by the device size and the achievable pitch between the devices. Scaling down dimensions of devices and progress in the circuit design allowed following Moore's law dur ...

EPFL2011

Asymmetrically strained all-silicon multi-gate n-Tunnel FETs

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Mohammad Najmzadeh, Katherine Boucart

This paper reports all-silicon asymmetrically strained Tunnel FET architectures that feature improved subthreshold swing and Ion/Ioff characteristics. We demonstrate that a lateral strain profile corresponding to at least 0.2 eV band-gap shrinkage at the B ...

Elsevier2010

Electron counting at room temperature in an avalanche bipolar transistor

Giovanni Boero, Radivoje Popovic, Marc Lany

We report on real-time detection of single electrons inside a n-p-n bipolar junction transistor at room temperature. Single electrons injected through the base-emitter junction trigger with a high probability the avalanche breakdown of the strongly reverse ...

2008

On The Compact Modelling of Induced Gate Noise in the MOS Transistor

Christian Enz, Ananda Sankar Roy

2006

Polarization effects in the channel of an organic field-effect transistor

Libero Zuppiroli, Marie-Noëlle Bussac, Jean-David Picon, Hocine Houili

We present the results of our calculation of the effects of dynamical coupling of a charge carrier to the electronic polarization and the field-induced lattice displacements at the gate interface of an organic field-effect transistor (OFET). We find that t ...

American Institute of Physics Inc.2006

Effect of spontaneous polarization screening on dielectric response of ferroelectric polydomain films

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev

A theoretical study on the effect of spontaneous polarization screening on the dielectric response of ferroelectric films with 180 degrees domains going through the film thickness (through-domains) is presented. It has been shown by several researchers tha ...

2005