The need for more energy-efficient solid-state switches beyond complementary metal-oxide-
semiconductor (CMOS) transistors has become a major concern as the power consumption …

The energy efficiency of a CMOS digital logic circuit is fundamentally limited by the nonideal
switching behavior of transistors, specifically their nonzero off-state current and finite …

Nanoelectromechanical (NEM) switches are similar to conventional semiconductor switches
in that they can be used as relays, transistors, logic devices and sensors. However, the …

Power density has grown to be the dominant challenge for continued complementary metal–
oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) technology scaling. Together with recent improvements in …

IN THE late 1950s visionary physicist Richard Feynman issued a public challenge by
offering $1000 to the first person to create an electrical motor" smaller than 1/64th of an …

Nanoscale mechanical devices offer the prospect of signal processing, computation, and
sensing-at microwave frequencies, sub-nanosecond time scales, and with unprecedented …

Nanoelectromechanical (NEM) relays are a promising class of emerging devices that offer
zero off-state leakage and behaves like an ideal switch. The zero leakage operation has …

There has been remarkable interest in nanomechanical computing elements that can
potentially lead to a new era in computation due to their re-configurability, high integration …

This paper reports the design, fabrication, characterization, and scaling analysis of novel
buckling-based nanoelectromechanical relays that use, for the first time, piezoelectric …

Society is approaching and advancing nano-and microtechnology from various angles of
science and engineering. The need for further fundamental, applied, and experimental …