State of the art and future perspectives in advanced CMOS technology

HH Radamson, H Zhu, Z Wu, X He, H Lin, J Liu… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
The international technology roadmap of semiconductors (ITRS) is approaching the
historical end point and we observe that the semiconductor industry is driving …

Nanowires for energy: A review

NI Goktas, P Wilson, A Ghukasyan, D Wagner… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) represent a new class of materials and a shift from
conventional two-dimensional bulk thin films to three-dimensional devices. Unlike thin film …

Self-aligned wrapped-around structure

JP Colinge, KC Ching, TP Guo, CH Diaz - US Patent 9,209,247, 2015 - Google Patents
An embodiment vertical wrapped-around structure and method of making. An embodiment
method of making a self-aligned vertical structure-all-around device including forming a …

Vertical nanowire array-based field effect transistors for ultimate scaling

G Larrieu, XL Han - Nanoscale, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanowire-based field-effect transistors are among the most promising means of overcoming
the limits of today's planar silicon electronic devices, in part because of their suitability for …

Vertical silicon nanowire field effect transistors with nanoscale gate-all-around

Y Guerfi, G Larrieu - Nanoscale research letters, 2016 - Springer
Nanowires are considered building blocks for the ultimate scaling of MOS transistors,
capable of pushing devices until the most extreme boundaries of miniaturization thanks to …

Vertical cross point arrays for ultra high density memory applications

B Bateman - US Patent 8,937,292, 2015 - Google Patents
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Vertical sandwich gate-all-around field-effect transistors with self-aligned high-k metal gates and small effective-gate-length variation

X Yin, Y Zhang, H Zhu, GL Wang, JJ Li… - IEEE Electron …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new type of vertical nanowire (NW)/nanosheet (NS) field-effect transistors (FETs), termed
vertical sandwich gate-all-around (GAA) FETs (VSAFETs), is presented in this work …

Silicon nanostructures for thermoelectric devices: A review of the current state of the art

G Schierning - physica status solidi (a), 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon is the most important element of modern semiconductor industry. As a thermoelectric
converter material, it would be able to promote applications dramatically since device …

Top-down fabrication of Ge nanowire arrays by nanoimprint lithography and hole gas accumulation in Ge/Si core–shell nanowires

YL Sun, W Jevasuwan, N Fukata - Applied Surface Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Germanium (Ge) nanowire arrays are expected to be a promising channel material for high-
performance field-effect transistors (FETs) due to their excellent electronic transport …

Local bit lines and methods of selecting the same to access memory elements in cross-point arrays

CH Siau, C Chevallier, D Rinerson, SF Lim… - US Patent …, 2012 - Google Patents
Embodiments relate generally to semiconductors and memory technology, and more
particularly, to systems, inte grated circuits, and methods to implement a memory archi …