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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"integration density"”.
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Contributions to the advance of the integration density of CubeSats
… potential technologies to increase the integration density of CubeSats. Observations of the CubeSat market and missions are recorded in order to derive design criteria for high performance single unit CubeSats. A promising approach to increased integration density is relocation of the …
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InAs Nanowire Devices and Circuits
… recently, the improvements in performance and integration density have been mostly driven by scaling down the transistor size. However, as the length scale is rapidly approaching that of only a few atoms, this scaling paradigm may not continue forever. Instead, the research community, as well …
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High-speed modulation of semiconductor lasers and properties of silver-coated quantum-dot lasers
… integrated circuit applications, requiring large integration density of devices and minimal cross-talk between channels. To attain large integration density, there is also a desire for high-speed lasers that have a large direct modulation bandwidth and eliminate the need for external modulators. …
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New Methods for Improving Embedded Memory Manufacturing Tests
… years. Since embedded memories have the highest integration density of a fabrication technology they pose special test challenges due to complex manufacturing defects as well as strong transistor aging phenomena. This necessitates efficient methods for detecting more subtle defects while keeping …
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Magnetic Logic Gate Using Ferromagnetic Hexagonal Nanodots
… and it offers low power dissipation and high integration density of a functional circuit. Transmission of information from one magnetic logic gate to the neighbouring hexagonal nanodot has been partially implemented. Opportunities for improved information transmission between magnetic logic …
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System-Technology Co-Optimization of Scaled Electronics Based on Two-Dimensional Materials
… highly scaled electronic devices and high-density integrated circuits. However, bottlenecks have arisen recently as transistor dimensions approach the physical limits, and integration density is constrained. This thesis addresses these issues with two-dimensional (2D) materials, which …
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Multi-resonant passive components for power conversion
… are applied in modern regimes of frequency and integration density. To an ever increasing extent, integration limits are symptoms of the fundamental frequency- and size-scaling limits of passive components. Power inductors and transformers, in particular, are challenging to miniaturize because …
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High performance MoS₂ transistors based on wafer-scale low-temperature MOCVD synthesis
… back-end-of-line (BEOL) solutions to improve the integration density and functionality of conventional silicon circuits, two-dimensional (2D) material devices are believed to be very promising, due to their high mobility, relatively large band gaps, atom-level thickness, performance comparable to …
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Entwicklung von piezoelektrischen Stellantrieben mit CMOS-kompatibler Ansteuerspannung für mikrotechnische Anwendungen
… to be made with at the same time high level of integration density. While microsensors for such systems are far developed and commercially available, microactuators, which are needed for the control of energy or mass flows, are still at the beginning. The operational areas of control drives in …
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Advanced circuit design of gigabit density ferroelectric random access memories
… several capacitors to a chain to increase the integration density and speed. The second chip is a 0.13µm 4-Mbit embedded FeRAM. ’Embedded’ means that the memory can be integrated with other circuits (e.g. a digital signal processor: DSP) on the same chip and does not require any process steps …
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Statistical modeling and simulation of variability and reliability of CMOS technology
… of High-κ Metal Gate transistors led to higher integration density, low leakage current, and faster switching speed. However, this transition in technology roadmap brought about new failure mechanisms such as Positive Bias Temperature Instability and Stress Induced Leakage Current. In addition, …
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Digitally-Assisted RF IC Design Techniques for Reliable Performance
… benefits of low cost, high performance, and high integration density in digital integrated circuits. On the other hand, deep scaled technologies inextricably accompany a large process variation, supply voltage scaling, and reduction in breakdown voltages of transistors. When it comes to RF/analog …
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Defect and fault tolerance techniques for nano-electronics
… devices. It is predicted that the high integration density offered by emerging nanotechnologies will be accompanied by high manufacturing defect rates and high operation-time fault rates. This thesis is concerned with developing defect and fault tolerance techniques to address low …
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Spin-Transfer-Torque (STT) Devices for On-chip Memory and Their Applications to Low-standby Power Systems
… of SOT-MRAM is presented to improve the integration density by utilizing a shared bit-line structure.
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Athermal photonic devices and circuits on a silicon platform
… can offer cost, energy, distance and bandwidth density improvements over copper. Monolithic integration of optics and electronics has been enabled by silicon photonic devices that can be fabricated using CMOS technology. However, high levels of device integration result in signicant local and …
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Utilitarian Approaches for Multi-Metric Optimization in VLSI Circuit Design and Spatial Clustering
… sizes resulting in a significant increase in the integration density and size of the circuits. At the nanometer level, due to the effects of manufacturing process variations, the design optimization process has transitioned from the deterministic domain to the stochastic domain, and the …
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Integration of resistive switching devices in crossbar structures
… lines. This configuration allows for a high integration density due to a minimal footprint of 4 F² (F = minimum Feature size). The basic elements are straight metallization lines with excellent scaling capability and fabricated by competitive technologies such as nano imprint lithography. The …
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Circuit Design Methods with Emerging Nanotechnologies
… achieve magnitude improvement in performance and integration density. The substitution of CMOS transistors with nano-devices is expected to not only continue along the exponential projection of Moore's Law, but also raise significant challenges and opportunities, especially in the field of …
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Template-controlled integration and characterization of bottom-up grown ferroelectric nanoislands
… fulfill the markets requirement for ever growing integration densities. The scalability of ferroelectric materials however is still under discussion and therefore subject to various research projects. Size-effects in real systems are expected to be often rather extrinsically determined by …
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Planning for Solar Buildings in Urban Environments
… parametric study examined how design decisions – density, orientation, roof shape and design – taken in the urban planning phase affect the solar potential. Density was found to be the most sensitive parameter and, for higher densities, the study showed that attaining a net zero energy balance is …