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This paper investigates the use of carbon nanotube field effect transistors (CNFETs) for the design of ternary full adder cells. The proposed circuits have been designed based on the unique properties of CNFETs such as having desired…

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Traditional transistors based on complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) and metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) are facing significant limitations as device scaling reaches the limits of Moore's Law. These…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-09-30 Chloe Isabella Tsang , Haihui Pu , Junhong Chen

Graphene has attracted enormous interests due to its unique physical, mechanical, and electrical properties. Specially, graphene-based field-effect transistors (FETs) have evolved rapidly and are now considered as an option for conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-30 Nianduan Lu , Lingfei Wang , Ling Li , Ming Liu

Spin-orbit torque is a promising mechanism for writing magnetic memories, while field-effect transistors are the gold-standard device for logic operation. The spin-orbit torque field effect transistor (SOTFET) is a proposed device that…

Transition-metal-dichalcogenides own a variety of structures as well as electronic properties which can be modulated by structural variations, element substitutions, ion or molecule intercalations, etc. However, there is very limited…

Nanostructures of conventional metals offer manipulation of light at the nanoscale but are limited to static behavior due to their fixed material properties. To develop the next frontier of dynamic nanooptics and metasurfaces, we utilize…

The cold source field-effect transistor (CSFET) is promising for reducing power dissipation in integrated circuits by engineering the density of states at the injecting source. Existing CSFET designs utilizing Dirac-source metals or…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-13 Shujin Guo , Qing Shi , Deping Guo , Fei Liu , Xianghua Kong , Yonghong Zhao , Hong Guo

The memristive device is one of the basic elements of novel, brain-inspired, fast, and energy-efficient information processing systems in which there is no separation between memorization and information analysis functions. Since the first…

Negative capacitance (NC) in ferroelectrics, which stems from the imperfect screening of polarization, is considered a viable approach to lower voltage operation in the field-effect transistors (FETs) used in logic switches. In this paper,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-07 Kwok Ng , Steven J. Hillenius , Alexei Gruverman

Nano-oscillator devices are gaining more and more attention as a prerequisite for developing novel energy-efficient computing systems based on coupled oscillators. Here, we introduce a highly scalable, frequency-tunable nano-oscillator…

An n-channel accumulation-type field effect transistor (FET) has been fabricated utilizing a KTaO3 single crystal as an active element and a sputtered amorphous Al2O3 film as a gate insulator. The device demonstrated an ON/OFF ratio of 10^4…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Ueno , I. H. Inoue , T. Yamada , H. Akoh , Y. Tokura , H. Takagi

In this work, we demonstrate the suitability of Reconfigurable Ferroelectric Field-Effect- Transistors (Re-FeFET) for designing non-volatile reconfigurable logic-in-memory circuits with multifunctional capabilities. Modulation of the energy…

Spin-based logic devices could operate at very high speed with very low energy consumption and hold significant promise for quantum information processing and metrology. Here, an in-house developed, experimentally verified, ensemble…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 B. Thorpe , K. Kalna , F. C. Langbein , S Schirmer

We propose and analyze a multifunctional THz device which can operate as a tunable switch and a filter. The device consists of a circular graphene nanodisk coupled to two nanoribbons oriented at $90^\circ$ to each other. The graphene…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Victor Dmitriev , Geraldo Melo , Wagner Castro

A magnetic-field-effect transistor is proposed that generates a spin-polarized current and exhibits a giant negative magnetoresitance. The device consists of a nonmagnetic conducting channel (wire or strip) wrapped, or sandwiched, by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. N. Gurzhi , A. N. Kalinenko , A. I. Kopeliovich , A. V. Yanovsky , E. N. Bogachek , Uzi Landman

Electrically controlled rotation of spins in a semiconducting channel is a prerequisite for the successful realization of many spintronic devices, like, e.g., the spin field effect transistor (sFET). To date, there have been only a few…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Franz Eberle , Dieter Schuh , Benedikt Grünewald , Dominique Bougeard , Dieter Weiss , Mariusz Ciorga

We have simultaneously measured conductance and thermoelectric power (TEP) of individual silicon and germanium/silicon core/shell nanowires in the field effect transistor device configuration. As the applied gate voltage changes, the TEP…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 Yuri M. Brovman , Joshua P. Small , Yongjie Hu , Ying Fang , Charles M. Lieber , Philip Kim

We present a hybrid graphene dielectric metasurface design to achieve strong tunable and modulated transmission at near-infrared (near-IR) frequencies. The proposed device is constituted by periodic pairs of asymmetric silicon nanobars…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 Christos Argyropoulos

We demonstrate the fabrication of high-performance Ge-SixGe1-x core-shell nanowire field-effect transistors with highly doped source and drain, and systematically investigate their scaling properties. Highly doped source and drain regions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-03 Junghyo Nah , En-Shao Liu , Kamran M. Varahramyan , Davood Shahrjerdi , Sanjay K. Banerjee , Emanuel Tutuc

We report low frequency charge noise measurement on silicon substrates with different phosphorus doping densities. The measurements are performed with aluminum single electron transistors (SETs) at millikelvin temperatures where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. J. Ferguson , V. C. Chan , A. R. Hamilton , R. G. Clark