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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Floating gate"”.
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Organic molecular floating gate memories
… that utilize charge storage in polysilicon floating gates imbedded in insulating silicon oxide films'. As demands for high storage density, high chip memory capacity, and decreasing process costs continue to mount, conventional flash memory has found it challenging to continue scaling and it …
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Floating gate engineering for novel nonvolatile flash memories
… using continuous highly doped polysilicon as floating gate, which is the most common in today’s commercial market, can't satisfy these demands, with the transistor size continuously scaling down beyond 32 nm. Nanocrystal floating gate flash memory and SONOS-type flash memory are considered …
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Equation defined device modelling of floating gate M.O.S.F.E.Ts.
… the development of a novel compact model for a Floating Gate nMOSFET that will be added to the QUCS library. QUCS (Quite Universal Circuit Simulator) is a GPL simulation software package that was created in 2006 and is continuing to develop and evolve, and there is already a substantial library …
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Molecular and quantum dot floating gate non-volatile memories
… A possible solution is to replace the continuous floating gate, where charge is stored, with a segmented charge storage film, so that leakage through defects in the tunneling oxide would be localized. We first explored using quantum dots as possible floating gate replacements. After conducting …
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Floating-gate-programmable and reconfigurable, digital and mixed-signal systems
This body of work as whole has the theme of using floating-gates and reconfigurable systems to explore and implement non-traditional computing solutions to difficult problems. Various computational methodologies are used simultaneously to solve problems by mapping pieces of them to the appropriate …
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Protein-mediated nanocrystal assembly for floating gate flash memory fabrication
… longer retention time. As traditional continuous floating gate flash struggles to balance the trade-off between high speed and retention requirement, nanocrystal (NC) floating gate flash has attracted more and more interest recently due to its advantages over traditional flash memories in many …
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Computer Modeling of Silicon Quantum Dot Floating -Gate Flash Memory Devices
… to the local-density approximation. We investigate the quantum-dot electronic structure, device capacitance-voltage characteristics and derive the threshold voltage, VT, variation with single-electron charging as a function of design parameters. In the simulation of a single rectangular …
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Application of novel gate materials for performance improvement in flash memory devices
… overall objective of this work is to apply novel gate materials for the performance enhancement of flash memory devices, including both floating gate-type flash memory devices and SONOS-type flash memory devices. These attempts could be of practical value for flash memory devices, especially in …
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Návrh analogových obvodů s nízkým napájecím napětím a nízkým příkonem
… (bulk-driven - BD), s plovoucím hradlem (floating-gate - FG), s kvazi plovoucím hradlem (quasi-floating-gate - QFG), s řízeným substrátem s plovoucím hradlem (bulk-driven floating-gate - BD-FG) a s řízeným substrátem s kvazi plovoucím hradlem (quasi-floating-gate - BD-QFG). Práce je také …
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Graphene Nanotechnology the Next Generation Logic, Memory and 3D Integrated Circuits
Floating gate transistor is the basic building block of non-volatile flash memory, which is one of the most widely used memory gadgets in modern micro and nano electronic applications. Recently there has been a surge of interest to introduce a new generation of memory devices using graphene …
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Next-Generation Flash Memories Using Two-Dimensional Materials
… (MLGNR) and Graphene are used as the channel and floating gate of the device proposed. The current in the channel is calculated using the Poisson-Schrodinger equation; the numerical algorithm is based on the Newton-Raphson (NR) method. A comparative study is done on two different Floating Gate …
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Design of a Low Power Delta Sigma Modulator for Analog to Digital Conversion
… a power consumption of 87 uW. A second order Floating Gate modulator possesses features for high noise rejection, and produces 10 bits of resolution while consuming 276 uW. It is concluded that self-referenced modulators dissipate less power and offer higher performance as compared more …
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Analog Signal Processing Elements for Energy-Constrained Platforms
… of programmable analog storage elements (Floating-Gate transistors) in typical SPICE-based simulators is presented, along with a novel method of harnessing the unique properties of these Floating-Gate (FG) transistors to extend the linear range of a differential pair. These improvements in …
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Suspended Gate Silicon Nanodot Memory
… planes and satellites. However,the conventional floating gate memory technology in use for flash memory is facing a serious scalability issue, the tunnel oxide thickness cannot be reduced to less than 7nm as pointed out in the latest international technology roadmap for semiconductors (ITRS2010) …
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Study of organic molecules and nano-particle/polymer composites for flash memory and switch applications
… increase in data storage capabilities. A floating gate consisting of a thin film of molecules would provide the advantage of a uniform set of identical nano-structured charge storage elements with high molecular area densities which can result in a several-fold higher density of …
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Full band ensemble Monte Carlo simulation of silicon devices
… test case to validate the simulator. Finally, a floating gate memory element (non-volatile memory) is also examined. In this simulation, the Monte Carlo simulator is used as a post-processor to PISCES IIB in the interest of execution time. Despite the lack of self-consistency and rigor, the …
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Silicon nanoparticle sysnthesis through thermal catalytic pyrolysis
… of applications in single electron transistors, floating gate memory devices, solid state lighting, chemical sensors and flexible electronics, including solar cells and luminescent materials, printed on paper. A remaining key challenge however in the development of applications is the …
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Commercialization of germanium based nanocrystal memory
… redundancy. By replacing the conventional floating gate memory with one using Si or Ge nanocrystals, the nonvolatile memory exhibits high programming speed with low programming voltage and superior retention time, and yet is compatible with conventional silicon technology. This thesis …
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Alternative gate dielectrics and application in nanocrystal memory
… it has better scalability than the conventional floating gate Flash memory. In this work, the performance of germanium (Ge) nanocrystal memory structures, employing high dielectric constant (high-k) materials to replace the tunnel oxide and capping oxide (control oxide) layers, was investigated. …
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