In This Series

1. From Lilienfeld to Landauer: Understanding the nanoscale transistor

   Online Presentations | 30 Apr 2013 | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

   The talk is organized around the so-called Virtual Source model of the MOSFET and will show how the traditional view of the MOSFET (which dates from the 1960’s) can be adapted to today’s nanoscale transistors in a physically insightful and simple way. The talk aims to show that understanding the...

2. Tunnel FETs - Device Physics and Realizations

   Online Presentations | 10 Jul 2013 | Contributor(s): Joachim Knoch

   Here, the operating principles of TFETs will be discussed in detail and experimental realizations as well as simulation results will be presented. In particular, the role of the injecting source contact will be elaborated on.

3. The Road Ahead for Carbon Nanotube Transistors

   Online Presentations | 09 Jul 2013 | Contributor(s): Aaron Franklin

   In this talk, recent advancements in the nanotube transistor field will be reviewed, showing why CNTFETs are worth considering now more than ever. Then, the material- and device-related challenges to realizing a nanotube-driven digital technology will be covered.

4. Microelectronics in Transition

   Online Presentations | 18 Oct 2013 | Contributor(s): Dennis Buss

   For the past 40 years, the semiconductor industry has been dominated by Moore’s Law scaling of CMOS. However, CMOS scaling will end in this decade. The Era of Moore’s Law scaling will give way to the Era of Accelerated Technology Innovation (ATI).

5. Analysis of Techniques for Measuring Carrier Recombination Lifetime

   Online Presentations | 27 Nov 2013 | Contributor(s): Richard Keith Ahrenkiel

   Rapid, accurate and contactless measurement of the recombination lifetime is a very important activity in photovoltaics. The excess carrier lifetime (Δn(t)) is the most critical and variable parameter in the development of photovoltaic materials. Device performance can be accurately...

6. Auger Generation as an Intrinsic Limit to Tunneling Field-Effect Transistor Performance

   Online Presentations | 22 Sep 2016 | Contributor(s): Jamie Teherani

   Many in the microelectronics field view tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) as society’s best hope for achieving a > 10× power reduction for electronic devices; however, despite a decade of considerable worldwide research, experimental TFET results have significantly...

7. Flat Photonics Using High Contrast Metastructures

   Online Presentations | 27 Feb 2017 | Contributor(s): Constance J. Chang-Hasnain

   A new class of planar optics has emerged using near-wavelength structures with a large refractive index contrast with its surroundings, known as high contrast metastructures (HCM). Many extraordinary properties can be designed top-down based for integrated optics on a silicon substrate. Using a...

8. The Berkeley Model and Algorithm Prototyping Platform

   Online Presentations | 08 Mar 2017 | Contributor(s): Jaijeet Roychowdhury

   Berkeley MAPP is a MATLAB-based framework for quickly prototyping device compact models and simulation algorithms. MAPP’s internal code structuring, which differs markedly from that of Berkeley SPICE and related simulators, allows users to add new devices with only minimal knowledge of...