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The effects of different substrates on the off state leakage current in gallium nitride planar diodes are experimentally demonstrated and studied by analyzing temperature-dependent current voltage characteristics.
The performance of the LHC depends critically on the accurate measurements of the betatron tunes. The betatron tune values of each LHC beam may be measured without excitation using a newly installed transverse Schottky monitor. A high-level…
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are a promising solution for the miniaturization of electronic devices and for the exploration of novel physics. However, practical applications and demonstrations of physical phenomena are hindered by…
Conventional topological insulators support boundary states that have one dimension lower than the bulk system that hosts them, and these states are topologically protected due to quantized bulk dipole moments. Recently, higher-order…
This paper proposes modified Second-Order Generalized Integrators (mSOGIs) for a fast estimation of all harmonic components of arbitrarily distorted single-phase signals such as voltages or currents in power systems. The estimation is based…
Strain provides an effective means to tune the electrical properties while retaining the native chemical composition of the material. Unlike three-dimensional solids, two-dimensional materials withstand higher levels of elastic strain…
3D NAND flash memory with advanced multi-level cell techniques provides high storage density, but suffers from significant performance degradation due to a large number of read-retry operations. Although the read-retry mechanism is…
We study solar cell properties of single silicon wires connected at their ends to two dissimilar metals of different work functions. Effects of wire dimensions, the work functions of the metals, and minority carrier lifetimes on short…
We enable density-based topology optimization (TO) to design integrated photonic devices featuring nonvertical sidewall profiles. Specifically, we demonstrate TO for fabrication processes with slanted sidewalls which are often used to…
Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are unique materials hosting topologically protected states, whose dimensionality is at least by a factor of 2 lower than that of the bulk. Topological states in such insulators may be strongly…
We propose a hybrid device consisting of a graphene/silicon (Gr/Si) Schottky diode in parallel with a Gr/SiO2/Si capacitor for high-performance photodetection. The device, fabricated by transfer of commercial graphene on low-doped n-type Si…
Two-dimensional topological insulators (2DTI) have attracted increasing attention during the past few years. New 2DTI with increasing larger spin-orbit coupling (SOC) gaps have been predicted by theoretical calculations and some of them…
We propose a universal practical approach to realize magnetic second-order topological insulator (SOTI) materials, based on properly breaking the time reversal symmetry in conventional (first-order) topological insulators. The approach…
Pulsed sodium laser guide stars (LGS) are useful because they allow for Rayleigh blanking and fratricide avoidance in multiple-LGS systems. Bloch-equation simulations of sodium-light interactions show that these may be able to achieve…
Spin-gapless semiconductors (SGSs) are a promising class of materials for spintronic applications, enabling functions beyond conventional electronics. This study introduces a novel design for multifunctional spintronic field-effect…
We propose a polarization-insensitive and high-efficiency plasmonic silicon Schottky diode for detection of sub-bandgap photons in the optical communication wavelength range through internal photoemission. Our photodiode is based on a…
Structured light (SL) systems acquire high-fidelity 3D geometry with active illumination projection. Conventional systems exhibit challenges when working in environments with strong ambient illumination, global illumination and cross-device…
We present a novel resistance-compensated I-V method to extract the series resistance, ideality factor, barrier height and built-in potential of a metal-semiconductor diode. We show that a reduced equation arises from a unique but hitherto…
Softmax Loss (SL) is being increasingly adopted for recommender systems (RS) as it has demonstrated better performance, robustness and fairness. Yet in implicit-feedback, a single global temperature and equal treatment of uniformly sampled…
Topological nodal-line semimetals (TNLSs) exhibit exotic physical phenomena due to a one-dimensional (1D) band touching line, rather than discrete (Dirac or Weyl) points. While so far proposed two-dimensional (2D) TNLSs possess closed nodal…