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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"nanoelectronic"”.
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GeSn semiconductor for micro-nanoelectronic applications
Within the last few years the steady electronic evolution lead the semiconductor world to study innovative device architectures and new materials able to replace Si platforms. In this scenario Ge1-xSnx alloy attracts the interest of the scientific community due to its ability to tune the material …
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Nanoelectronic and nanomechanical devices for low temperature applications
Cooling physical experiments to low temperatures removes thermal excitations to reveal quantum mechanical phenomena. The progression of nanotechnologies provides new and exciting research opportunities to probe nature at ever smaller length scales. The coupling of nanotechnologies and low …
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Fabrication and Transport Properties of Silicon Nanoelectronic Devices
The research presented herein is based on the fabrication and transport properties of nanometer-scale devices in silicon. The most promising of these structures are nanowires fabricated with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). These high-density nanowires display the low-temperature phenomena of …
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Chemical approaches to the improved performance of nanoelectronic devices
As the feature size of silicon-based information storage and processing components approach the atomic limit, molecule-based electronic components are being increasingly examined to extend the Moore’s law by utilizing the intrinsic characteristics of single molecules rather than the cooperative …
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Tensile-Strained Ge/III-V Heterostructures for Low-Power Nanoelectronic Devices
… development of next-generation low-power nanoelectronic devices utilizing the Ge/InxGa1-xAs material system.
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Silicon Nanoelectronic Devices Fabricated by Ultra-High Vacuum, Scanning Tunneling Microscope Nanolithography
Electrical and magnetotransport measurements are carried out at low temperature on various device geometries. Two-dimensional unpatterned delta-doped samples yield ohmic conduction and sharp positive magnetoconductance: a characteristic of a weakly localized electron gas. The 2D electron density …
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Nanoelectronic Devices using Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Electrodes: Fabrication and Electronic Transport Investigations
… In this dissertation, the fabrication of nanoelectronic devices and investigation of their transport properties using carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene as electrode materials will be shown. I investigated two types of devices using (i) semiconducting CNTs, and (ii) organic …
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Functional nanoelectronic devices: single-electron transport, memristivity, and thermoelectricity in nanoscale flms using self-assembly and graphene
This dissertation reports on several experimental projects studying electronic transport in thin-flm electronic devices. Self-assembly methods and graphene were used to realise devices contacting films of self-assembled PbS quantum dots. The devices have exhibited single-electron tunnelling with a …
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Nanoscale heat conduction with applications in nanoelectronics and thermoelectrics
… applications, such as heat transfer in nanoelectronic devices and the thermal conductivity in nanocomposites which consists of nanowires or nanoparticles embedded in a matrix material. Another class of problems which are rich in physics and might be explored for better design of both …
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Thin-film single-walled carbon nanotube transistors fabricated using mechanical meniscus aligned arrays
… have potential applications in the fields of nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, sensory devices and other areas of nanoscience. However, several challenges need to be addressed before SWNTs can be considered as potential candidates for future nanoelectronic devices. In order to use SWNTs to …
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Fault tolerance issues in nanoelectronics
… In fact, once devices reach the few-atom scale (nanoelectronics), transient quantum effects are expected to impair their behaviour. Fault tolerant techniques will then be required. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the problem of transient errors in nanoelectronic devices. Transient error …
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Production of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Chemical Vapor Deposition: Design and Scale Up
… that are ideal for reinforced composites, nanoelectronic structures, and sensor devices. In the present research, single-walled carbon nanotubes are formed by chemical vapor deposition in a fluidized bed at various temperatures and gas flow rates with transition metal catalysts. Two …
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Insertion of metal oxides into block copolymer nanopatterns as robust etch masks for nanolithography
… of silicon integrated circuit features for the nanoelectronic industry. Top-down optical techniques employed for photoresist patterning are predicted to reach an endpoint due to diffraction limits. Additionally, the prohibitive costs for “fabs” and high volume manufacturing tools are issues that …
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DNA-Templated Surface Alignment and Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes.
… for the fabrication of nanotube nanowires in nanoelectronic circuits. Using my improved procedures, I have localized SWNTs on DNA templates across electrodes and measured the electrical properties of DNA-templated SWNT assemblies. When a DNA-templated SWNT was deposited on top of and bridging …
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Organometallic Functionalization of 2D Nanomaterials for Energy and Medical Applications
… graphene interfaces can be leveraged in both nanoelectronic devices and exploratory biomedical diagnostic platforms. To accomplish these objectives, a wide range of synthesis, fabrication, and characterization techniques were employed, including chemical vapor deposition (CVD), vapor-phase …
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Circuit Design Methods with Emerging Nanotechnologies
… design cannot be directly employed in the nanoelectronic design process, because the intrinsic electrical characteristics of many nano-devices are not best suited for Boolean implementations but demonstrate strong capability for implementing non-conventional logic such as threshold logic …
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Towards high performance graphene nanoelectronics: materials, contacts and interfaces
… this development for a wide range of macro and nanoelectronic applications due to a combination of unique electrical and thermal properties and an atomically thin lattice (~3.4 Å). Some of these applications include flexible transparent electrodes, heat spreaders and fast analog devices and …
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COPING WITH DISCREPANCIES OF THE MANUFACTURED WEIGHTS IN THRESHOLD LOGIC GATES
… emerging technology to CMOS implementation in nanoelectronic era and the realization of complex functionalities is becoming an increasingly promising approach in the deep sub-micron design era. The gate that is implemented with threshold logic is called a Threshold Logic Gate (TLG). The logic …
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Peripheral Nervous System Modulation with Wireless Cellular Sized Freestanding Injectable Devices
… fashion. These innovative, substrate-free nanoelectronic devices, termed injectable electronics, can be activated, and controlled using near-infrared (NIR) light, enabling minimally invasive, targeted neuromodulation deep within the peripheral nervous system (PNS). By overcoming the …
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