Recovered Energy Logic (REL) is a new family of logic that charges and discharges capacitive logic nodes in an ideally lossless fashion. To accomplish this, REL uses an AC waveform as both the system power supply and a two-phase clock. Unlike mainstream logic circuits, REL circuits require substantial current from all three terminals of a transistor. This makes BJTs and MESFETs a natural choice...

1 Carsten Wulff, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Physical Electronics, Trondheim, Norway [email protected] 2 Trond Ytterdal, , Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Physical Electronics, Trondheim, Norway [email protected] Abstract  The work presented here aims to outfit remotely operated laboratories with circuit programmability throug...

This paper describes the complete test, functional and parametric, of a 1Kb GaAs MESFET SRAM chip. The chip was developed as an evaluation vehicle for a new type of MESFET SRAM cell. The new cell, in contrast with conventional GaAs memory cells, minimizes the leakage current in access transistors of unselected cells. Two algorithms were selected for functional testing: MATS and Galloping Ones a...

We report, for the first time, a silicon carbide (SiC) based metal semiconductor field effect transistor (MESFET) which has a recessed p-buffer layer into the channel region near the source and a recessed channel into the p-buffer layer region near the drain under the gate. The length and thickness of the channel recess into the p-buffer layer are larger than the pbuffer recess into the channel...

The enhancement-mode MOSFET is the primary active device used in present-day digital and mixed-signal integrated circuit processes. Thus, it is important to introduce this device and associated circuit design methods early in the electronics curriculum. This article discusses four integrated circuit MOSFET amplifier configurations; the current source/active load stage, the source follower, the ...

(Abstract) Accurate small and large-signal models of metal-semiconductor field effect transistor (MESFET) devices are essential in all modern microwave and millimeter wave applications. Those models are used for robust designs and fabrication development. The sophistication of modern communication systems urged the need of monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), which consists of many...