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In this letter we propose the design and simulation study of a novel transistor, called HFinFET, which is a hybrid of a HEMT and a FinFET, to obtain excellent performance and good off state control. Followed by the description of the…
Quantum computing is an emerging technology, promising a paradigm shift in computing, and allowing for speedups in many different problems. However, quantum devices are still in their early stages, most with only a small number qubits. This…
Quantum sensors represent a new generation of sensors with improved precision, accuracy, stability, and robustness to environmental effects compared to their classical predecessors. After decades of laboratory development, several types of…
A fresh look on carbon-based transistor channel materials like single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNT) and graphene nanoribbons (GNR) in future electronic applications is given. Although theoretical predictions initially promised that GNR…
The past few years have witnessed the concrete and fast spreading of quantum technologies for practical computation and simulation. In particular, quantum computing platforms based on either trapped ions or superconducting qubits have…
During the last years, Graphene based Field Effect Transistors (GFET) have shown outstanding RF performance; therefore, they have attracted considerable attention from the electronic devices and circuits communities. At the same time,…
The growing penetration of inverter-based resources and associated controls necessitates system-wide electromagnetic transient (EMT) analyses. EMT tools and methods today were not designed for the scale of these analyses. In light of the…
The use of carbon nanotube (CNT) field-effect transistors (FETs) in microwave circuit design requires an appropriate, immediate and efficient description of their performance. This work describes a technique to extract the parameters of an…
Carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNFETs) are promising candidates for building energy-efficient digital systems at highly-scaled technology nodes. However, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are inherently subject to variations that reduce…
In this study, we report the progress made towards the definition of a modular compact modeling technology for graphene field-effect transistors (GFET) that enables the electrical analysis of arbitrary GFET-based integrated circuits. A set…
Carbon Nanotube (CNT) appears as a promising candidate to shrink field-effect transistors (FET) to the nanometer scale. Extensive experimental works have been performed recently to develop the appropriate technology and to explore DC…
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The technological exploitation of ferroelectricity in CMOS electron devices offers new design opportunities, but also significant challenges from an integration, optimization and modelling perspective. We here revisit the working principle…
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Single-electron transistors (SETs) have been extensively used as charge sensors in many areas such as quantum computations. In general, the signals of SETs are smaller than those of complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices,…
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Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) is a likely candidate for future low power nano-scale electronic devices. Sequential circuits in QCA attract more attention due to its numerous application in digital industry. On the other hand,…