Publications associées à Micro-Electro-Mechanical Metal-Air-Insulator-Semiconductor Diode Switch

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Demonstration of a Plasmonic Nonlinear Pseudodiode

Olivier Martin, Karim Achouri, Andrei Kiselev, Sergejs Boroviks

We demonstrate a nonlinear plasmonic metasurface that exhibits strongly asymmetric second-harmonic generation: nonlinear scattering is efficient upon excitation in one direction, and it is substantially suppressed when the excitation direction is reversed, ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Method for operating a frequency agile tunable self-injection locking laser system and self-injection locking laser system

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Anat Siddharth, Grigorii Likhachev

The invention relates to a Method for operating a frequency agile tunable self-injection locking laser system being formed by a laser device coupled to at least one optical resonator, wherein a diode current of a laser diode of the laser device is controll ...

2023

Charge sensing properties ofmonolithic CMOS pixel sensors fabricated in a 65 nm technology

Francesco Piro

In this work the initial performance studies of the first small monolithic pixel sensors dedicated to charged particle detection, called CE-65, fabricated in the 65nm TowerJazz Panasonic Semiconductor Company are presented. The tested prototypes comprise m ...

ELSEVIER2022

Modeling the electrical characteristic of InGaN/GaN blue-violet LED structure under electrical stress

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Camille Haller

The role of deep defects and their physical origin in InGaN/GaN LED are still widely investigated and debated, in particular their impact on the electrical and optical characteristics and on the reliability of the device. In this paper we evaluate the elec ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Electron Emission Regimes of Planar Nano Vacuum Emitters

Yujia Yang, Alberto Nardi

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

GaN vertical power devices on silicon substrates

Riyaz Mohammed Abdul Khadar

Gallium Nitride (GaN) is a wonder material which has widely transformed the world by enabling energy-efficient white light-emitting diodes. Over the past decade, GaN has also emerged as one of the most promising materials for developing power devices which ...

EPFL2021

p-GaN field plate for low leakage current in lateral GaN Schottky barrier diodes

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Luca Nela, Catherine Erine

High-voltage gallium nitride Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) suffer from large off-state leakage current, which further degrades during operation at high temperatures and limits the device blocking capabilities. The key to achieving low off-state leakage is ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2021

Analysis of Large-Signal Output Capacitance of Transistors using Sawyer–Tower Circuit

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Armin Jafari, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Georgios Kampitsis

A detailed analysis on the Sawyer–Tower method used in the measurement of large-signal output capacitance (Co) of power transistors is presented, followed by important design recommendations to obtain accurate results. Key factors affecting the proper impl ...

2020

AlGaN/GaN Nanowires: from Electron Transport to RF Applications

Giovanni Santoruvo

Gallium Nitride (GaN) and all III-Nitride compounds have revolutionized the world with the development of the blue light emitting diode (LED). In addition, GaN-based epi-structures, such as AlGaN/GaN, enable the fabrication of high electron mobility transi ...

EPFL2020

Gate-Tunable Tunneling Transistor Based on a Thin Black Phosphorus-SnSe2 Heterostructure

Klaus Kern, Marko Burghard

Tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) are of considerable interest owing to their capability of low-power operation. Here, we demonstrate a novel type of TFET which is composed of a thin black phosphorus-tin diselenide (BP-SnSe2) heterostructure. This ...

2019

Polarity-Controllable Devices and Circuits for Doping-Free 2D Electronics

Giovanni Vincenzo Resta

The growth of information technology has been sustained by the miniaturization of Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) Field-Effect Transistors (FETs), with the number of devices per unit area constantly increasing, as exemplified by Mooreâ s la ...

EPFL2019

Transient Current Technique characterization of bonded interfaces for monolithic silicon radiation detectors

Jacopo Bronuzzi

This thesis aims at demonstrating a novel technique for the characterization of interfaces obtained by a CMOS-compatible Surface Activated Bonding (SAB) process between silicon wafers. This enables the optimization of the two main components of monolithic ...

EPFL2018

Development of a monolithic near-field optomechanical system

Ryan Daniel Schilling

In the same year as Einstein's annus mirabilis, English engineer and physicist John Flemming patented the first rectifying diode, which he called the "Flemming valve". Einstein's work on the photoelectric effect would change our understanding of the nature ...

EPFL2018

Genuinely Ferroelectric Sub-1-Volt-Switchable Nanodomains in HfxZr(1-x)O2 Ultrathin Capacitors

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Igor Stolichnov, Enrico Colla, Matteo Cavalieri

The new class of fully silicon-compatible hafnia-based ferroelectrics with high switchable polarization and good endurance and thickness scalability shows a strong promise for new generations of logic and memory devices. Among other factors, their competit ...

2018

Doping-Free Complementary Logic Gates Enabled by Two-Dimensional Polarity-Controllable Transistors

Giovanni De Micheli, Giovanni Vincenzo Resta, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon

Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials belonging to transition metal dichalcogenides, due to their physical and electrical properties, are an exceptional vector for the exploration of next-generation semiconductor devices. Among them, due to the po ...

2018

MoS2/VO2 vdW heterojunction devices: Tunable rectifiers, photodiodes and field effect transistors

Olivier Martin, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Arnaud Magrez, Andreas Schueler, Anna Krammer, Emanuele Andrea Casu, Chen Yan, Nicolò Oliva

In this work we report a new class of ultra-thin film devices based on n-n van der Waals (vdW) heteroj unctions of MoS2 and VO2, which show remarkable tunable characteristics. The favorable band alignment combined with the sharp and clean vdW interface det ...

2018

Negative capacitance tunnel F£Ts: Experimental demonstration of outstanding simultaneous boosting of on-current, transconductance, overdrive, and swing

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Farzan Jazaeri, Igor Stolichnov, Ali Saeidi

This paper demonstrates and experimentally reports the highest ever performance boosting in strained silicon-nanowire homojunction TFETs with negative capacitance, provided by matched PZT capacitors. Outstanding enhancements of I on , g m , and overdrive a ...

IEEE2018

Metal Halide Perovskites as Mixed Electronic-Ionic Conductors: Challenges and Opportunities-From Hysteresis to Memristivity

Wolfgang Richard Tress

Metal halide perovskites are promising candidates for many classes of different optoelectronic devices. Apart from being a semiconductor, they additionally show ionic conductivity. It expresses itself in slow response times, reversible degradation, and hys ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Modeling and optimization of Tunnel-FET architectures exploiting carrier gas dimensionality

Cem Alper

The semiconductor industry, governed by the Moore's law, has achieved the almost unbelievable feat of exponentially increasing performance while lowering the costs for years. The main enabler for this achievement has been the scaling of the CMOS transistor ...

EPFL2017

A Steep-Slope Transistor Combining Phase-Change and Band-to-Band-Tunneling to Achieve a sub-Unity Body Factor

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Josef Andreas Schuler, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale, Anna Krammer, Emanuele Andrea Casu, Arnab Biswas, Cem Alper, Teodor Rosca

Steep-slope transistors allow to scale down the supply voltage and the energy per computed bit of information as compared to conventional field-effect transistors (FETs), due to their sub-60 mV/decade subthreshold swing at room temperature. Currently pursu ...

Nature Research2017