The performance of strained silicon (Si) as the channel material for today's metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors may be reaching a plateau. New channel materials with high carrier mobility are being investigated as alternatives and have the potential to unlock an era of ultra-low-power and high-speed microelectronic devices. Chief among these new materials is germanium (Ge). This...

Due to the extraordinary large surface-to-volume ratio, surface effects on semiconductor nanowires have been extensively investigated in recent years for various technological applications. Here, we present a facile interface trapping approach to alter electronic transport properties of GaAs nanowires as a function of diameter utilizing the acceptor-like defect states located between the intrin...

Strained-Si modulation doped field effect transistors have been studied as detectors of 0.2 THz and 1.6 THz electromagnetic radiation at room temperature. The difference in the gate voltage dependences for 0.2 THz and 1.6 THz radiation and spatial pattern of the transistor response to focused 1.6 THz radiation confirms that the mechanism of detection is linked to the excitations of the two-dime...

We realize a hybrid superconductor-semiconductor transmon device in which the Josephson effect is controlled by gate-defined quantum dot an InAs/Al nanowire. Microwave spectroscopy of transmon's transition spectrum allows us to probe ground state parity as function gate voltages, external magnetic flux, and field applied parallel The measured phase diagram agreement with that predicted single-i...

The temperature dependence of the charge-carrier mobility provides essential insight into the charge transport mechanisms in organic semiconductors. Such knowledge imparts critical understanding of the electrical properties of these materials, leading to better design of high-performance materials for consumer applications. Here, we present experimental results that suggest that the inhomogeneo...

We in this paper present an computational intelligence technique to extract semiconductor device model parameters. This solution methodology is based on a genetic algorithm (GA) with an exponential type weight function, renew operator, and adaptive sampling scheme. The proposed approach automatically extracts a set of complete parameters with respect to a specified compact model, such as a BSIM...

Due to polarization of ions in crystals with noncentral symmetry, such as ZnO, GaN, and InN, a piezoelectric potential (piezopotential) is created in the crystal when stress is applied. Electronics fabricated using the inner-crystal piezopotential as a gate voltage to tune or control the charge transport behavior across a metal/semiconductor interface or a p-n junction are called piezotronics. ...

We present a study on the metal–graphene contact properties. Utilizing a dual-gate field-effect transistor device, an energetic separation between the Fermi level and the Dirac point in the contact areas can be adjusted deliberately by applying an appropriate front-gate voltage that acts only on the channel. This front-gate voltage is compensated by an opposite large-area backgate voltage, ther...