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Daniel Grogg
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A 6.7 MHz nanoelectromechanical ring oscillator using curved cantilever switches coated with amorphous carbon
Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Antonios Bazigos, Daniel Grogg
Nanoelectromechanical (NEM) switches have the potential to complement or replace traditional CMOS transistors in the area of ultra-low power digital electronics. This paper reports the demonstration of the first ring oscillator built using cell-level digit ...
IEEE2014A 6.7 MHz Nanoelectromechanical Ring Oscillator Using Curved Cantilever Switches Coated with Amorphous Carbon
Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Antonios Bazigos, Daniel Grogg
Nanoelectromechanical (NEM) switches have the potential to complement or replace traditional CMOS transistors in the area of ultra-low power digital electronics. This paper reports the demonstration of the first ring oscillator built using cell-level digit ...
IEEE2014Analytical Compact Model in Verilog-A for Electrostatically Actuated Ohmic Switches
Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Antonios Bazigos, Daniel Grogg, Yu Pu
Nowadays, electronics face a challenge regarding the power consumption of integrated circuits (ICs). There is a need for new devices that can provide improved switching capabilities. The downscaled electrostatically actuated ohmic switch, as a (re)emerging ...
Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014Energy and Latency Optimization in NEM Relay-Based Digital Circuits
Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Antonios Bazigos, Daniel Grogg
Digital circuits based on nanoelectromechanical (NEM) relays hold out the potential of providing an energy efficiency unachievable by conventional CMOS technology. This paper presents a detailed analysis of the operating characteristics of fabricated curve ...
Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014Electromechanical design space exploration for electrostatically actuated ohmic switches using extended parallel plate compact model
Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Antonios Bazigos, Daniel Grogg
The nanoscaled electrostatically actuated electromechanical ohmic switch is an emerging device with advanced performance in terms of ION/IOFF ratio. It is imperative that compact models accompany such novel devices in order to fully evaluate their potentia ...
Elsevier2014Nanoelectromechanical digital logic circuits using curved cantilever switches with amorphous-carbon-coated contacts
Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Antonios Bazigos, Daniel Grogg
Nanoelectromechanical (NEM) switches have the potential to complement or replace traditional CMOS transistors in the area of ultra-low-power digital electronics. This paper reports the demonstration of prototype circuits including the first 3-stage ring os ...
2014High aspect ratio sub-micron trenches on silicon-on-insulator and bulk silicon
Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Cyrille Hibert, Daniel Grogg, Marion Hermersdorf
This paper reports on the fabrication of sub-micron trenches on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) required in many MEMS devices and on bulk silicon. Trenches in the range of 100-500 nm had been etched with the deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) by using the SHARP ( ...
2011The Vibrating Body Transistor
Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Daniel Grogg
This paper presents a hybrid resonator architecture called the vibrating body field-effect transistor (VB-FET), which combines a silicon microelectromechanical (MEM) resonator and a FET in a single device. The active device provides improved motion sensing ...
2011Nanomechanical Silicon Resonators with Intrinsic Tunable Gain and Sub-nW Power Consumption
Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Andrea Lovera, Daniel Grogg, Sebastian Thimotee Bartsch
Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) as integrated components for ultrasensitive sensing, time keeping, or radio frequency applications have driven the search for scalable nanomechanical transduction on-chip. Here, we present a hybrid silicon-on-Insulator ...
2011Tunable Electromechanical Resonator Based On Carbon Nanotube Array Suspended Gate Field Effect Transistor (Cnt-Sgfet)
Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Daniel Grogg, Anupama Arun
In this paper we report the first experimental demonstration of Micro-Electro-Mechanical resonator based on a Carbon Nanotube-Array-Suspended-Gate-Field-Effect-Transistor (CNT-SGFET). A dense array of single-walled CNT aligned by ac-dielectrophoresis techn ...
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