We report the longitudinal and transverse PtIr-ZnO wire piezotronic Schottky diodes in a conductive atomic force microscope (C-AFM). The tuning of electronic transport characteristics by bending ZnO wire was investigated. For longitudinal transport, the threshold voltage can be tuned over a wide range (from 1 V to 8 V) during the bending process. For transverse transport, the threshold voltage ...

We report a technique which allows self-assembly of conducting nanoparticles into long continuous chains. Transport properties of such chains have been studied at low temperatures. At low bias voltages, the charges are pinned and the chain resistance is exponentially high. Above a certain threshold VT , the system enters a conducting state. The threshold voltage is much bigger than the Coulomb ...

Memristors are novel electrical devices used for a variety of applications including memory, logic circuits, and neuromorphic systems. Memristive technologies are attractive due to the nonvolatility, scalability, and compatibility with CMOS. Numerous physical experiments have shown the existence of a threshold voltage in some physical memristors. Additionally, as shown in this paper, some appli...

New low-power Level Shifter (LS) circuit is designed by using sleep transistor with Multi Threshold CMOS (MTCMOS) technique for robust logic voltage shifting from sub-threshold to abovethreshold domain. MultiSupply Voltage Design (MSVD) technique is mainly used for energy and speed in modern system-on-chip. In MSVD, level shifters are required to allow different voltage supply to shift from the...

We show by experimental measurements and theoretical analyses that there exists a pattern transition from optical modulation instability to transverse instability in nonlinear media. An input coherent beam propagating in the photorefractive crystals is observed to break up into stripe filaments at a first threshold voltage. By modeling the periodic strip filaments as cnoidal waves, we demonstra...

We introduce a new dual threshold voltage technique for domino logic. Since domino logic is much more sensitive to noise, noise margins have to be taken into account when applying dual threshold voltages to domino logic. To guarantee the signal integrity in domino logic, we carefully consider the effect of transistor sizing and threshold voltage selection. For optimal design, tradeoffs need to ...

This paper presents a very simple methodology for determining the threshold voltage. The procedure is based on the expressions of the Advanced Compact MOSFET (ACM) model, valid in all regimes of operation, which assures physical meaning, consistency and reliability for the results. The extraction of the threshold voltage is accomplished over a single measured drain current characteristic in the...

In this study, we investigated the effects of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) and pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide 1-38 (PACAP) on the voltage-gated calcium currents in hamster submandibular ganglion neurons. VIP and PACAP inhibited the high threshold voltage-gated calcium current in a voltage-independent and a concentration-dependent manner via the G protein-mediated ...

A comprehensive study of the intrinsic reliability of a 1.4-nm (equivalent oxide thickness) JVD Si3N4 gate dielectric subjected to constant-voltage stress has been conducted. The stress leads to the generation of defects in the dielectric. As the result, the degradation in the threshold voltage, subthreshold swing, gate leakage current, and channel mobility has been observed. The change in each...