As the semiconductor industry contemplates the end of Moore’s Law, there has been considerable interest in novel materials and devices (IRTS, 2006). Technologies such as molecular switches and carbon nanowire arrays offer a path to scaling beyond the limits of conventional CMOS (FENA, 2006). Most such technologies are in the exploratory phases, still years or decades from the point when they wi...

The advancement in semiconductor technology has provided a new alternative to the hundred year old conventional transformer technology by providing an elegant solution using Solid State Transformer (SST). The SST is applied semiconductor technology for changing the voltage ratio. The SST can achieve high power density as well as operation at high frequency, thus reducing the size and the cost. ...

Semiconductor nanowires composed of III-V materials have enormous potential to add new functionality to electronics and optical applications. However, integration of these promising structures into applications is severely limited by the current near-universal reliance on gold nanoparticles as seeds for nanowire fabrication. Although highly controlled fabrication is achieved, this metal is enti...

In this work, the synthesis, characterization, and applications of branched oligothiophene dendrons that act as electroactive surfactants for the capping of Au metal nanoparticles and CdSe quantum dots are described. Two distinct methods have been employed for synthesis: a ligand exchange process and a direct-capping synthesis approach. The coverage of the dendrons per nanocrystal, the nature o...

Recently, sputtered metal-oxide-based field effect transistors (FETs) have been demonstrated with higher charge carrier mobilities, higher current densities, and faster response performance than amorphous silicon FETs, which are the dominant technology used in display backplanes [1-2]. Furthermore, the optically transparent semiconducting oxide films can be deposited in a near-room-temperature ...

Optical addressing of semiconductor electrodes represents a powerful technology that enables the independent and parallel control of a very large number of electrical phenomena at the solid-electrolyte interface. To date, it has been used in a wide range of applications including electrophoretic manipulation, biomolecule sensing, and stimulating networks of neurons. Here, we have adapted this a...

Advances in nanotechnology have pushed forward the synthesis of a variety of functional nanoparticles (NPs) such as semiconductor quantum dots (QDs), magnetic and metallic NPs. The unique electronic, magnetic, and optical properties exhibited by these nanometer-sized materials have enabled a broad spectrum of biomedical applications. In particular, iron-oxide-based magnetic NPs have proved to b...

Recent progress on the synthesis and characterization of semiconductor nanowire heterostructures is reviewed. We describe a general method for heterostructure synthesis based on chemical vapour deposition and the vapour-liquid-solid growth of crystalline semiconducting nanowires. We then examine examples of nanowire heterostructures for which physical properties have been measured, considering ...

Rapid advances in semiconductor technology are motivating the development of computer-aided design tools to assist human designers at the higher levels of the design process. In particular, there is a need for tools that aid system-level design synthesis the process of producing a detailed artifact satisfying high level specifications given a set of components. A knowledge-based approach that u...

The properties of semiconductor nanomaterials such as optical and electrical properties are mostly dependent on the size and shape of the nanomaterials. Therefore controlling the size and shape of the nanomaterials are significantly important [16, 75-77]. Several methods have been used for the synthesis of nanomaterials. Synthesis of nanomaterials in solution method has attracted due to its sim...