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Monitoring of Protein and pH Levels in Human Biofluids using FD-SOI Silicon Nanowire Arrays

Medical research and technological advancements are heading towards tailored healthcare approaches that prioritize individual needs, allowing for more accurate diagnoses, more effective treatments, and better patient outcomes overall. One such approach is ...

EPFL2023

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

Carlotta Gastaldi

Ferroelectric materials are explored for numerous applications thanks to their properties associated with electrically switchable spontaneous polarization. Perovskites are an established class of ferroelectrics used for sensors and actuators. However, they ...

EPFL2022

LiNiO Junction Gate for High-performance Enhancement-mode GaN Power Transistor

Taifang Wang

GaN metal-oxide-semiconductor high electron mobility transistors (MOS)HEMTs) offer outstanding properties for next-generation power electronics devices. The high conductivity, high voltage blocking capability, high operation frequency, and device-level int ...

EPFL2022

Enhancement Mode Tri-gate GaN Power Devices and Logic Circuits

Minghua Zhu

Gallium Nitride (GaN) is one of the most promising materials for high frequency power switching due to its exceptional properties such as large saturation velocity, high carrier mobility, and high breakdown field strength. The high switching frequency of G ...

EPFL2021

Figures-of-Merit of Lateral GaN Power Devices: modeling and comparison of HEMTs and PSJs

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Luca Nela, Catherine Erine, Maria Vittoria Oropallo

In this work, we propose a simple and yet accurate physical model to describe the figures-of-merit (FOMs) of lateral GaN power devices. While the performance limit of vertical devices is well understood, the FOMs of lateral devices are not properly describ ...

2021

Quasi-vertical GaN-on-Si reverse blocking power MOSFETs

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Riyaz Mohammed Abdul Khadar, Chao Liu, Alessandro Floriduz, Reza Soleiman Zadeh Ardebili

We demonstrate quasi-vertical reverse blocking (RB) MOSFETs on 6.7 mu m thick GaN grown on a 6 inch Si substrate by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition. The RB capability was achieved by replacing the ohmic drain with a quasi-vertical Schottky drain, re ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Adaptive Body Biasing in Strong Body Factor Technologies

Thomas Christoph Müller

With the advent of intelligent sensor nodes in everyday life, low power aspects of system design become more and more important. Adaptive body biasing is a promising methodology to achieve dynamic adaptation of the tradeoff between performance and energy b ...

EPFL2021

Characterization and Modeling of Total Ionizing Dose Effects on Nanoscale MOSFETs for Particle Physics Experiments

Chunmin Zhang

Total ionizing radiation compromises electrical characteristics of microelectronic devices and even causes functional failures of integrated circuits. It has been identified as a potential threat to electronic components, especially those in high-energy ph ...

EPFL2021

Sondheimer oscillations as a probe of non-ohmic flow in WP2 crystals

Philip Johannes Walter Moll, Matthias Carsten Putzke, Chunyu Guo, Yi-Chiang Sun, Jonas De Jesus Diaz Gomez, Maarten Ruud van Delft, Jacopo Oswald

As conductors in electronic applications shrink, microscopic conduction processes lead to strong deviations from Ohm's law. Depending on the length scales of momentum conserving (l(MC)) and relaxing (l(MR)) electron scattering, and the device size (d), cur ...

Nature Portfolio2021

In-depth Cryogenic Characterization of 22 nm FDSOI Technology for Quantum Computation

Edoardo Charbon, Christian Enz, Farzan Jazaeri, Hung-Chi Han, Antonio D'Amico

In this paper, the influence of temperature and back-gate bias is experimentally investigated on 22 nm FDSOI CMOS process. Cryogenic DC characterization was carried out under various back-gate voltages, V back , from 2.95 K back to 300 K. An abrupt drop-of ...

IEEE2021