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A single-electron inverter was fabricated that switches from a high output to a low output when a fraction of an electron is added to the input. For the proper operation of the inverter, the two single-electron transistors that make up the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. P. Heij , P. Hadley , J. E. Mooij

In order to continue to improve integrated circuit performance and functionality, scaled transistors with short channel lengths and low thickness are needed. But the further scaling of silicon-based devices and the development of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-08 Mengwei Si , Zehao Lin , Zhizhong Chen , Xing Sun , Haiyan Wang , Peide D. Ye

Three-phase AC-DC rectifiers are fundamental components in modern power electronics systems, yet achieving rapid voltage regulation and precise current tracking under load and grid disturbances remains challenging due to nonlinear dynamics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Koto Omiloli , Satish Vedula , Ayobami Olajube , Olugbenga Moses Anubi

The controlled fabrication of actively switchable atomic-scale devices, in particular transistors, has remained elusive to date. Here we explain operation of an atomic-scale three-terminal device by a novel switching mechanism of bistable,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-07 F. -Q. Xie , R. Maul , A. Augenstein , Ch. Obermair , E. B. Starikov , G. Schoen , Th. Schimmel , W. Wenzel

The circuit presented in this paper aims at providing three 40 Vpp 50Hz AC voltages sources with 120-degree phase separation between them. This is a fully analogue circuit that uses standard, low-cost electronic components without resorting…

Physics Education · Physics 2013-11-19 Francisco Llopis , Mario Jakas

As quantum technologies advance, a fundamental challenge is mitigating noise and backscattering in superconducting circuits to achieve scalable, high-fidelity operations. Conventional superconducting components lack directionality, causing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Han Zhong , Denis Kochan , Igor Zutic , Yingying Wu

It has been found that some text-books show LC-oscillators that may not work as assumed. Thus, the typical example showing a LC-oscillator driven by a voltage operational-amplifier is simply wrong. The difficulty stems from the fact that…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 M. M. Jakas , F. Llopis

Power electronics converters are key enablers in the global energy transition for power generation, industrial and mobility applications; they convert electrical power in a controlled, reliable and efficient manner. The semiconductor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Amin Rezaeizadeh , Silvia Mastellone

Transistors are the cornerstone of modern electronics. Yet, their relatively complex characteristics, allied with often observed great parameter variation, remain a challenge for discrete and integrated electronics. Much of transistor…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-02-08 Luciano da F. Costa

A transimpedance amplifier has been designed for scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The amplifier features low noise (limited by the Johnson noise of the 1 G{\Omega} feedback resistor at low input current and low frequencies), sufficient…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-02 Martin Štubian , Juraj Bobek , Martin Setvin , Ulrike Diebold , Michael Schmid

We present the realization of an acoustic diode or rectifier, exploiting symmetry-breaking nonlinear effects like harmonic generation and wave mixing and the filtering capabilities of metamaterials. The essential difference and advantage…

A novel room temperature capacitance-to-phase transducer is described, which uses a modified All-Pass filter architecture combined with a simple series resonant tank circuit with a moderate Q-factor. It is fashioned from a discrete inductor…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-12-29 Frank J. van Kann , Alexey V. Veryaskin

Resistive switching devices herald a transformative technology for memory and computation, offering considerable advantages in performance and energy efficiency. Here we employ a simple and scalable material system of conductive oxide…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Yang Li , Wei Wang , Di Zhang , Maria Baskin , Aiping Chen , Shahar Kvatinsky , Eilam Yalon , Lior Kornblum

Some voltage sources are transient, lasting only for a moment of time, such as the voltage generated by converting a human motion into electricity. Such sources moreover tend to have a degree of randomness as well as internal resistance. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-21 Swati , Uttam Singh , Oscar C. O. Dahlsten

Strain engineering has played a key role in modern silicon electronics, having been introduced as a mobility booster in the 1990s and commercialized in the early 2000s. Achieving similar advances with two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors in…

A number of spintronic junction transistors, that exploit the spin degree of freedom of an electron in addition to the charge degree of freedom, have been proposed to provide simultaneous non-volatile storage and signal processing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-01 S. Bandyopadhyay , M. Cahay

Voltage doubler rectifiers are usually applied to systems with high voltage and low current requirement. An X band voltage doubler rectifier has been developed with 72% conversion efficiency. To the best of our knowledge, the obtained…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Feifei Tan , Changjun Liu

Transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs) are essential in sensor electronics, converting input currents into output voltages. Conventional TIAs utilize fixed-gain resistors, which saturate under high input currents and consequently result in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-07 Amir Gildor , Sariel Hodisan , Shahar Kvatinsky , Yoav Kalcheim

We present a thermal rectification device concept based on far-field radiative exchange between two selective emitters. Rectification is achieved due to the fact that one of the selective emitters radiative properties are independent on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 Elyes Nefzaoui , Jérémie Drevillon , Younès Ezzahri , Karl Joulain

This article is present high precision multiwave rectifier circuit operating in low voltage plus or minus 1.5 Volt current modes by CMOS technology 0.5 \mum, receive input and give output in current mode, respond at high frequency period.…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-01-14 Bancha Burapattanasiri