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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"metal-oxide-semiconductors"”.
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Defect engineering of metal oxide semiconductors
Defects in semiconductors have been studied for many years, with a view toward controlling their behavior through various forms of defect engineering. In the Si-based microelectronics industry, numerous methods to characterize and control the behavior of defects have been developed, including novel …
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Metal Oxide Semiconductors for Solar Energy Harvesting
… materials: silicon) used in building the cells. Metal oxide semiconductors are an attractive class of materials that are extremely low cost and can be produced at the scale needed to meet widespread demand. An industrially attractive thin film synthesis process based on aerosol deposition was …
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Synthesis and characterization of metal oxide semiconductors for photoelectrochemical hydrogen production
… this thesis is to investigate the properties of metal-oxide thin films on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO)-coated glass substrates, prepared by using radio- frequency (RF) reactive magnetron sputtering for photoelectrochemical (PEC) applications. Metal-oxide thin films as a photoelectrode are of …
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New Forms of Defect Engineering in Silicon and Metal Oxide Semiconductors
… Defects mediate foreign-atom diffusion in semiconductors, affect the performance of photo-active devices, the effectiveness of catalysts, the sensitivity of solid-state electrolyte sensors, and the efficiency of devices for converting sunlight to electrical power. Current methods for …
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Deposition of p-type metal oxide semiconductors for large-area electronic display and solar cell applications
… This has led to the development of alternative metal oxide technologies. However, whilst very good n-type materials have now been developed, there is still an absence of good p-type materials, which are essential to allow development of the inorganic, non-silicon based p-n junctions and CMOS …
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New mechanisms for defect engineering in titanium dioxide
… mechanisms for defect engineering in titanium dioxide based on surface-bulk coupling, photo-stimulation, and interaction of charged defects at the surface. While titanium dioxide is utilized as a model, the principles observed for titanium dioxide will translate well into other metal oxide …
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Low temperature lithographically patterned metal oxide transistors for large area electronics
Optically transparent, wide bandgap metal oxide semiconductors are a promising candidate for large-area electronics technologies that require lightweight, temperature-sensitive flexible substrates. Because these thin films retain relatively high carrier mobilities even in an amorphous state, metal …
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Defect engineering of polycrystalline titanium dioxide synthesized by atomic layer deposition
… to believe that the properties of semiconducting metal oxides for catalytic and integrated circuit applications can be improved when designed according to the principles of microelectronic devices. Defect engineering is used extensively in the semiconductor processing industry to produce devices …
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Visible Light Photocatalytic MoO3-Based Nanomaterials Synthesis, the Effect of Polymer Coatings on Their Photocatalytic Activity and Dissolution, and Their Applications in Water Treatment
… progressively contaminated. Photocatalytic metal oxide semiconductors such as MoO3 have shown much promise in water decontamination as they can generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) that degrade pollutants. MoO3 is an environmentally friendly, low-cost, visible light photocatalyst that has …
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Single event upset hardened CMOS combinational logic and clock buffer design
A radiation strike on semiconductor device may lead to charge collection, which may manifest as a wrong logic level causing failure. Soft errors or Single Event Upsets (SEU) caused by radiation strikes are one of the main failure modes in a VLSI circuit. Previous work predicts that soft error rate …
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Reducing Off-State Current in P-Type Metal Oxide Thin Film Transistors
… need for flexible thin-film electronics arises. Metal-oxide materials are a prime candidate. They can be fabricated cheaply, in large areas, using the current electronics infrastructure. Some devices are already being produced in industry; however, they typically rely on an NMOS device …
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A method for characterization of single-event latchup technologies as a function of geometric variation
Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology is the dominant integrated circuit (IC) technology in modern electronics systems. As CMOS comprises of p-channel and n-channel transistors, there are parasitic PNPN paths that act as cross-coupled bipolar transistors capable of creating …
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Thin Oxide MOS Capacitor Studies of Fast Surface States
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Electrical characterisation of emerging photo anodes suited to water dissociation with an applied bias
… industry can be used to fabricate metal oxide semiconductors for use as photoanodes. Given that the protective oxide needs to be transparent to allow light to the photoactive material, two possible solutions are available. To have a thicker transparent conducting oxide, such as …
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Novel Sensing Approaches towards Ultimate MEMS Sensors
Within the past few decades, several micro and nano-electromechanical (MEMS and NEMS) accelerometers, magnetometers and vibration sensors utilizing various actuation and sensing mechanisms have been developed and demonstrated. These sensors are integral to various geographical, industrial, …
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Qualification of a CMOS linear image sensor LIS-1024
… prominent image sensor types are Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors and Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs). While CMOS sensors have traditionally performed well in new applications, such as Personal Computer (PC) cameras (where CCDs were deemed too expensive), the year 2002 …
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High-resolution analog-to-digital conversion techniques
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