Publications related to Regional, National, and International Nanoelectronics Research Programs: Topical Concentration and Gaps

Stencil-Based Selective Surface Functionalization of Silicon Nanowires in 3D Device Architectures for Next-Generation Biochemical Sensors

Yusuf Leblebici, Ece Öztürk, Mohammad Nasr Esfahani

Surface functionalization of 1D materials such as silicon nanowires is a critical preparation technology for biochemical sensing. However, existing nonselective functionalization techniques result in nonlocal binding and contamination, with potential devic ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Controlling motion at the nanoscale with light

Mintae Chung

Optical manipulation at the micro- nano-scale is a fascinating topic due to its inherent non-invasive properties and multifaceted applications in various fields such as biology, sensing, micro-fluidics, and micro- nano-robotics. This thesis involves intens ...

EPFL2022

Electron Emission Regimes of Planar Nano Vacuum Emitters

Marco Turchetti, Alberto Nardi, Yujia Yang

Recent advancements in nanofabrication have enabled the creation of vacuum electronic devices with nanoscale free-space gaps. These nanoelectronic devices promise the benefits of cold-field emission and transport through free space, such as high nonlineari ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Atomic layer deposition of Ni and Ni80Fe20 for tubular spin-wave nanocavities

Maria Carmen Giordano

Magnetic thin films and magnetic nanostructures have become essential components of modern technological applications. Modern branches of magnetisms focus on spin-charge coupling (spintronics) and the collective excitation of spin waves in magnetically ord ...

EPFL2021

The Winner Takes it All: Geographic Imbalance and Provider (Un)fairness in Educational Recommender Systems

Mirko Marras

Educational recommender systems channel most of the research efforts on the effectiveness of the recommended items. While teachers have a central role in online platforms, the impact of recommender systems for teachers in terms of the exposure such systems ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

A Unified View on Nanoscale Packing, Connectivity, and Conductivity of CNT Networks

Claudio Grimaldi

The design of functional structures from primary building blocks requires a thorough understanding of how size, shape, and particle-particle interactions steer the assembly process. Specifically, for electrically conductive networks build from carbon nanot ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

T-cell surface modification with synthetic nanomaterials for cell-mediated delivery to the central nervous system

Maxime Ayer

The future of medicine lies in therapeutic approaches that can specifically target sites of disease and induce a localized and effective therapeutic effect. Cell-mediated delivery, especially using cells of the circulatory repertoire such as T lymphocytes, ...

EPFL2017

Robustness Analysis of Controllable-Polarity Silicon Nanowire Devices and Circuits

Hassan Ghasemzadeh Mohammadi

Substantial downscaling of the feature size in current CMOS technology has confronted digital designers with serious challenges including short channel effect and high amount of leakage power. To address these problems, emerging nano-devices, e.g., Silicon ...

EPFL2016

The classical and quantum dynamics of molecular spins on graphene

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Marko Burghard

Controlling the dynamics of spins on surfaces is pivotal to the design of spintronic(1) and quantum computing(2) devices. Proposed schemes involve the interaction of spins with graphene to enable surface-state spintronics(3,4) and electrical spin manipulat ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Resistless nanofabrication by stencil lithography: A review

Jürgen Brugger, Oscar Vazquez Mena, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo

We present a review on stencil lithography and focus on the particular interest and challenges when applying it to the scalable fabrication of nm-size devices. We first describe the basic technique with its main advantages and challenges. Then we review th ...

Elsevier2015

Graphene for Nanoelectronic Applications

Pankaj Sharma

During the past decade, graphene --- a monolayer of carbon atoms --- has attracted enormous interest for its use in nanoelectronic device applications. The absence of bandgap, however, has stalled its use both in logic (inability to turn off) and radio fre ...

EPFL2015

Investigation of the thermal effects in nanofluidic transport and their application in gating

Mojtaba Taghipoor

Scaling down to nanometer size fluidic conduits has opened a new window into the world of sensing and manipulation of nanoscale species. Thousands of publications and hundreds of patents in this field are only a starting point for exploring and manipulatin ...

EPFL2015

On-Chip Fabrication of Paclitaxel-Loaded Chitosan Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapeutics

Philippe Renaud, Arnaud Bertsch, Fatemeh Sadat Majedi, Mohammad Mahdi Hasani-Sadrabadi, Shahin Bonakdar, Jules John Vandersarl

The use of solvent-free microfluidics to fine-tune the physical and chemical properties of chitosan nanoparticles for drug delivery is demonstrated. Nanoparticle self-assembly is driven by pH changes in a water environment, which increases biocompatibility ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Carbon Nanotube Precise Assembly for CMOS and NEMS Applications

Ji Cao

As complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) scaling meets fundamental limitations, revolutionary device concepts and materials are urgently needed as alternatives or supplements to CMOS technology. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs), featuring extraordinary phy ...

EPFL2013

Design Methodologies and CAD for Emerging Nanotechnologies

Shashi Kanth Bobba

With technology scaling reaching the fundamental limits of Si-CMOS in the near future, the semiconductor industry is in quest for innovation from various disciplines of integrated circuit (IC) design. At a fundamental level, technology forms the main drive ...

EPFL2013

Ordered Arrays of Size-Selected Oxide Nanoparticles

Luca Gragnaniello

A bottom-up approach to produce a long-range ordered superlattice of monodisperse and isomorphic metal-oxide nanoparticles (NP) supported onto an oxide substrate is demonstrated. The synthetic strategy consists of self-assembling metallic NP on an ultrathi ...

American Physical Society2012

Optimization of Nanoelectronic Systems Reliability under Massive Defect Density Using Distributed R-Fold Modular Redundancy

Alexandre Schmid, Yusuf Leblebici, Milos Stanisavljevic

The theoretical analysis of R-fold modular redundancy with distributed voters - distributed R-fold modular redundancy in terms of reliability is presented for the first time to the best of author's knowledge. This technique is compared in terms of resistan ...

IEEE Computer Soc Press, Customer Service Center, Po Box 3014, 10662 Los Vaqueros Circle, Los Alamitos, Ca 90720-1264 Usa2009

NANOSIL network of excellence--silicon-based nanostructures and nanodevices for long-term nanoelectronics applications

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Kirsten Emilie Moselund, Katherine Boucart

NANOSIL Network of Excellence [NANOSIL NoE web site ], funded by the European Commission in the 7th Framework Programme (ICT-FP7, no 216171), aims at European scale integration of the excellent European research laboratories and their c ...

2008

Supramolecular structures of polypeptides : formation of fibrils and self-assembled monolayers

Daniela Silvano

The formation of supramolecular structures is a central issue in bio- and nanotechnology and therein plays an important role for many novel developments such as biocompatible materials for integrating living cells or coating for implantable sensing devices ...

EPFL2008

Ultra-thin nanograin polysilicon devices for hybrid CMOS-NANO integrated circuits

Serge Ecoffey

The aim of this research is to develop and to evaluate devices and circuits performances based on ultrathin nanograin polysilicon wire (polySiNW) dedicated to room temperature operated hybrid CMOS-"nano" integrated circuits. The proposed polySiNW device is ...

EPFL2007