Publication

Exploring negative capacitance and neuromorphic devices based on CMOS-compatible ferroelectric HfO2

Related publications (31)

Towards Scalable Electronics: Synthetic 2D Materials for Large-Area 2D Circuit Integration

In the past decades, a significant increase of the transistor density on a chip has led to exponential growth in computational power driven by Moore's law. To overcome the bottleneck of traditional von-Neumann architecture in computational efficiency, effo ...

EPFL2024

Strain relaxation and multidentate anchoring in n-type perovskite transistors and logic circuits

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Olga Syzgantseva

The engineering of tin halide perovskites has led to the development of p-type transistors with field-effect mobilities of over 70 cm2 V-1 s-1. However, due to their background hole doping, these perovskites are not suitable for n-type transistors. Ambipol ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Contemporary Logic Synthesis: with an Application to AQFP Circuit Optimization

Siang-Yun Lee

Electronic devices play an irreplaceable role in our lives. With the tightening time to market, exploding demand for computing power, and continuous desire for smaller, faster, less energy-consuming, and lower-cost chips, computer-aided design for electron ...

EPFL2024

Active Voltage Balancing with Seamless Integration into Dual Gate Driver for Series Connection of SiC MOSFETs

Drazen Dujic

The versatility of half-bridge configuration of silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) power module contributes to its widespread adoption, highlighting the popularity and significance of its corresponding dual gat ...

2024

Silicon CMOS and InGaAs(P)/InP SPADs for NIR/SWIR detection

Utku Karaca

Applications demanding imaging at low-light conditions at near-infrared (NIR) and short-wave infrared (SWIR) wavelengths, such as quantum information science, biophotonics, space imaging, and light detection and ranging (LiDAR), have accelerated the develo ...

EPFL2024

Emulating Multimemristive Behavior of Silicon Nanowire-Based Biosensors by Using CMOS-Based Implementations

Sandro Carrara, Junrui Chen, Kapil Bhardwaj

The research presented in this article draws inspiration from previous efforts aimed at replicating the functions of various solid-state memristors using a variety of materials. The memristor circuit emulator serves as a cost-effective tool for circuit des ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Light-Intensity Switching of Graphene/WSe2 Synaptic Devices

Giulia Tagliabue, Tarique Anwar, Hongyu Tang

2D van der Waals heterojunctions (vdWH) have emerged as an attractive platform for the realization of optoelectronic synaptic devices, which are critical for energy-efficient computing systems. Photogating induced by charge traps at the interfaces indeed r ...

Wiley2024

A Dual-Channel Gate Driver Design with Active Voltage Balancing Circuit for Series Connection of SiC MOSFETs

Drazen Dujic

Dual-channel gate driver is commonly utilized in the industry for accommodating the widespread use of half-bridge power modules. As wide-bandgap devices become increasingly prevalent due to their superior switching characteristics compared with conventiona ...

2024

SPAD Developed in 55 nm Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS Technology Achieving Near 90% Peak PDP

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Francesco Gramuglia, Myung Jae Lee, Ekin Kizilkan, Pouyan Keshavarzian, Won Yong Ha

We present a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) developed in 55 nm bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) technology, which achieves high photon detection probability (PDP) while its breakdown voltage is lower than 20 V. To enhance the PDP performance, the SPAD junctio ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Lithium tantalate photonic integrated circuits for volume manufacturing

Tobias Kippenberg, Kai Huang, Chen Yang, Mikhail Churaev, Xinru Ji, Yang Chen, Zihan Li, Alisa Davydova, Xi Wang, Junyin Zhang

Electro-optical photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based on lithium niobate (LiNbO3) have demonstrated the vast capabilities of materials with a high Pockels coefficient1,2. They enable linear and high-speed modulators operating at complementary metal–oxi ...

2024

Doping Engineering for PDP Optimization in SPADs Implemented in 55-nm BCD Process

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Myung Jae Lee, Feng Liu

We introduce a new family of single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) with enhanced depletion regions in a 55-nm Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) technology. We demonstrate how to systematically engineer doping profiles in the main junction and in deep p-well layers ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Advanced Silicon and SWIR Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes: Design, Simulation, and Characterization

Ekin Kizilkan

Low-level light detection with high spatial and timing accuracy is a growing area of interest by virtue of applications such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), biomedical imaging, time-resolved Raman spectroscopy, and quantum applications. Single-phot ...

EPFL2024

Integrated Wireless Power, Data Communication, and Thermal Sensing System for Autonomous Multisite Brain Implants

Implanted medical devices (IMDs) have been widely developed to support the monitoring and recording of biological data inside the body or brain. Wirelessly powered IMDs, a subset of implantable electronics, have been proposed to eliminate the limitations r ...

EPFL2024

Polarization-enhanced GaN Schottky barrier diodes: Ultra-thin InGaN for high breakdown voltage and low Ron

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Alessandro Floriduz, Zheng Hao

In this work, we present a concept that leverages the strong piezoelectric polarization field in InGaN, which counteracts the external electric field at reverse bias. We show that despite the smaller InGaN band-gap and lower critical electric field, its st ...

2024

3D Printing of Customizable Transient Bioelectronics and Sensors

Danick Briand, Nicolas Francis Fumeaux

Transient electronics have emerged as a new category of devices that can degrade after their functional lifetime, offering tremendous potential as disposable sensors, actuators, wearables, and implants. Additive manufacturing methods represent a promising ...

2024

Hydrogen-induced tunable remanent polarization in a perovskite nickelate

Michele Kotiuga

Materials with field-tunable polarization are of broad interest to condensed matter sciences and solid-state device technologies. Here, using hydrogen (H) donor doping, we modify the room temperature metallic phase of a perovskite nickelate NdNiO3 into an ...

Nature Portfolio2024

An Ultralow-Power Triaxial MEMS Accelerometer With High-Voltage Biasing and Electrostatic Mismatch Compensation

Yimai Peng, Li Xu, Kyojin Choo

This article presents a triaxial micro electromechani-cal system (MEMS) capacitive accelerometer using a high-voltage biasing technique to achieve high resolution with ultralow power. The accelerometer system generates a differential pair of high voltages ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

EdgeAI-Aware Design of In-Memory Computing Architectures

Marco Antonio Rios

Driven by the demand for real-time processing and the need to minimize latency in AI algorithms, edge computing has experienced remarkable progress. Decision-making AI applications stand out for their heavy reliance on data-centric operations, predominantl ...

EPFL2024

Generation of entangled photon pairs from a silicon bichromatic photonic crystal cavity

Matteo Galli, Thanavorn Poempool, Marco Clementi

Integrated quantum photonics leverages the on-chip generation of nonclassical states of light to realize key functionalities of quantum devices. Typically, the generation of such nonclassical states relies on whispering gallery mode resonators, such as int ...

Aip Publishing2024

Silicon nitride electric-field poled microresonator modulator

Camille Sophie Brès, Anton Stroganov, Edgars Nitiss, Boris Zabelich, Christian André Clément Lafforgue

Stoichiometric silicon nitride is a highly regarded platform for its favorable attributes, such as low propagation loss and compatibility with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology, making it a prominent choice for various linear and nonlinear ...

2024