Nanoelectromechanical switches for low-power digital computing

A Peschot, C Qian, TJ King Liu - Micromachines, 2015 - mdpi.com
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 impact of on-chip communication on memory technologies for neuromorphic systems

S Moradi, R Manohar - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Emergent nanoscale non-volatile memory technologies with high integration density offer a
promising solution to overcome the scalability limitations of CMOS-based neural networks …

Steep slope devices and TFETs

L Zhang, J Huang, M Chan - Tunneling Field Effect Transistor Technology, 2016 - Springer
Reducing energy dissipations per function with the integrated circuit (IC) chips is always an
appealing research topic. Techniques in the fundamental electronic device levels are being …

Back-end-of-line nano-electro-mechanical switches for reconfigurable interconnects

U Sikder, G Usai, TT Yen… - IEEE Electron …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Non-volatile (NV) nano-electro-mechanical (NEM) switches are successfully implemented
using multiple metallic layers in a standard 65 nm CMOS back-end-of-line (BEOL) process …

Toward monolithically integrated hybrid CMOS-NEM circuits

U Sikder, K Horace-Herron, TT Yen… - … on Electron Devices, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nanoelectromechanical (NEM) switches offer the advantages of zero OFF-state leakage
current, abrupt switching characteristics, nonvolatile (NV) operation, and relatively low ON …

Sub-100 mV computing with electro-mechanical relays

C Qian, A Peschot, B Osoba, ZA Ye… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Beyond cmos

S Das, A Chen, M Marinella - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dimensional and functional scaling 1 1 Functional Scaling: Suppose that a system has been
realized to execute a specific function in a given, currently available, technology. We say that …

Ge-Based Asymmetric RRAM Enable Content Addressable Memory

B Chen, Y Zhang, W Liu, S Xu, R Cheng… - IEEE Electron …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we developed an asymmetric Ge-based RRAM using a fully CMOS compatible
process. Due to the adoption of a thin AlO x/GeO x interfacial layer, the TiN/HfO x/AlO x/GeO …

Non-volatile nano-electro-mechanical memory for energy-efficient data searching

K Kato, V Stojanović, TJK Liu - IEEE Electron Device Letters, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A compact non-volatile nano-electro-mechanical memory (NV-NEMory) cell design together
with a novel memory array architecture and operating scheme is proposed for real-time data …

Sub-50-mV nanoelectromechanical switch without body bias

S Saha, MS Baghini, M Goel… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This brief presents a fabricated and characterized 3-terminal (3T) nanoelectromechanical
switch (NEMS) featuring for the first time a sub-50-mV pull-in voltage operation without body …