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The gate oxide lifetime in 4H-SiC power MOSFETs is typically assessed at fixed and constant gate bias stress, monitoring the time-dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB).
Breakdown is one of main failure mechanisms that limit write endurance of ferroelectric devices using hafnium oxide-based ferroelectric materials. In this study, we investigate the gate current and breakdown characteristics of…
Dielectric layers are gradually being down-scaled in different electronic devices like MOSFETs and Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (MTJ) with shrinking device sizes. As a result, time dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) has become a major issue…
Bias Temperature Instability (BTI) is a major reliability concern in CMOS technology, especially with High dielectric constant (High-\k{appa}/HK) metal gate (MG) transistors. In addition, the time independent process induced variation has…
A general solution for the electrostatic potential in an atomic-thin-body (ATB) field-effect transistor geometry is presented. The effective electrostatic scaling length, {\lambda}eff, is extracted from the analytical model, which cannot be…
The electric dipole (E1) strength functions have been systematically calculated based on the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), using the finite amplitude method and the real-time approach to the TDDFT with pairing…
The atomic and electronic structure of a set of proposed thin (1.6 nm in diameter) silicon/silica quantum nanodots and nanowires with narrow interface, as well as parent metastable silicon structures (1.2 nm in diameter), was studied in…
FinFET technology is prone to suffer from Line Edge Roughness (LER) based VT variation with scaling. To address this, we proposed an Epitaxially Defined (ED) FinFET (EDFinFET) as an alternate to FinFET architecture for 10 nm node and…
We propose a nonadiabatic time-dependent spin-density functional theory (TDSDFT) approach for studying the single-electron excited states and the ultrafast response of systems with strong electron correlations. The correlations are…
We derive present constraints on, and prospective sensitivity to, the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the top quark ($d_t$) implied by searches for the EDMs of the electron and nucleons. Above the electroweak scale $v$, the $d_t$ arises…
We study a two-dimensional fermionic QFT used to model 1D strongly correlated electrons in the presence of a time-dependent impurity that drives the system out of equilibrium. In contrast to previous investigations, we consider a dynamic…
Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) is widely used to describe electronic excitations in complex finite systems with large numbers of atoms, such as biomolecules and nanocrystals. The first part of this paper will give a simple…
A practical computational scheme based on time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) and ultrasoft pseudopotential (USPP) is developed to study electron dynamics in real time. A modified Crank-Nicolson time-stepping algorithm is…
A widely used technique to mitigate the gate leakage in the ultra-scaled metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) is the use of high-k dielectrics, which provide the same equivalent oxide thickness (EOT) as $\rm SiO_2$,…
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are widely recognized as attractive channel materials for low-power electronics. However, an unresolved challenge is the integration of high-quality, ultrathin high-\k{appa} dielectrics that fully meet…
We present a scaling theory of two-dimensional (2D) field effect transistors (FETs). For devices with channel thickness less than 4 nm, the device electrostatics is dominated by the physical gate oxide thickness and not the effective oxide…
The ground-state structures and ferroelectric properties of NbN (N=2-52) have been investigated by a combination of density-functional theory (DFT) in the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) and an unbiased global search with the…
In this work, a compact model is presented for a 14 nm CMOS-based FinFET Resonant Body Transistor (fRBT) operating at a frequency of 11.8 GHz and targeting RF frequency generation/filtering for next generation radio communication, clocking,…
We report on energy bands and breakdown characteristics of Al2O3 dielectrics on ultra-wide bandgap (UWBG) AlGaN heterostructures. Metal-dielectric-semiconductor structures are important to sustain high fields needed for future…
HfO$_2$-based ferroelectrics are one of the most actively developed functional materials for memory devices. However, in HfO$_2$-based ferroelectric devices, dielectric breakdown is a main failure mechanism during repeated polarization…