NEMS-based functional unit power-gating: Design, analysis, and optimization

MB Henry, L Nazhandali - … on Circuits and Systems I: Regular …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to combat the exponentially growing leakage power in modern microprocessors,
researchers have proposed the use of alternative power-gating structures that can yield …

Casimir force and its effects on pull-in instability modelled using molecular dynamics simulations

A Sircar, PK Patra, RC Batra - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We present a new methodology to incorporate the Casimir forces within the molecular
dynamics (MD) framework. At atomistic scales, the potential energy between two particles …

Emerging power-gating techniques for low power digital circuits

MB Henry - 2011 - vtechworks.lib.vt.edu
As transistor sizes scale down and levels of integration increase, leakage power has
become a critical problem in modern low-power microprocessors. This is especially true for …

A case for nems-based functional-unit power gating of low-power embedded microprocessors

M Henry, M Srivastav, L Nazhandali - Proceedings of the 48th Design …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents a case for using Nano-Electro-Mechanical-System switches for power
gating idle functional units of an embedded microprocessor. We achieve an average of 26 …

From transistors to NEMS: Highly efficient power-gating of CMOS circuits

MB Henry, L Nazhandali - ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
A rapidly growing class of battery constrained electronic applications are those with very
long sleep periods, such as structural health monitoring systems, biomedical implants, and …

Особенности изготовления металлических кантилеверов наноразмерной толщины

ИВ Уваров, ВВ Наумов, ИИ Амиров - Нано-и микросистемная техника, 2013 - elibrary.ru
Представлена методика изготовления металлических нанокантилеверов.
Кантилеверы имели трехслойную структуру и изготавливались в двух вариантах …

Low consumption logic circuit with mechanical switches

H Fanet, M Belleville - US Patent 9,257,981, 2016 - Google Patents
Adiabatic logic circuit having a first and a second inputs, a first and a second outputs and at
least one Supply and Syn chronization input (Phi), with this circuit comprising: a first logic …

Low consumption logic circuit and integrated circuit comprising at least one such logic circuit

H Fanet - US Patent 8,982,528, 2015 - Google Patents
Logic circuit for integrated circuit comprising a variable Sup ply Voltage source, the variation
of which comprises at least three successive phases, a first phase of increasing the Voltage …

МЭМС-переключатель электростатического типа на основе кантилевера наноразмерной толщины

ИВ Уваров, ВВ Наумов, РВ Селюков - Нано-и микросистемная …, 2015 - elibrary.ru
Представлен МЭМС-переключатель электростатического типа с резистивным
контактом, изготовленный с помощью микроэлектронных технологий. Подвижным …

Application of Nanoscale Electrostatic Interaction, 3-D Nano-fabrication and Nano-metrology

Z Sun - 2016 - escholarship.org
Nanotechnology has seen great development in the past two decades, and numerous nano-
devices with superior electrical/mechanical/optical performance have emerged in wide …