[HTML][HTML] On-chip mechanical computing: Status, challenges, and opportunities

L Wang, P Zhang, Z Liu, Z Wang, R Yang - Chip, 2023 - Elsevier
With increasing challenges towards continued scaling and improvement in performance
faced by electronic computing, mechanical computing has started to attract growing …

Monolithic 3-D integration

MD Bishop, HSP Wong, S Mitra, MM Shulaker - IEEE Micro, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The demands of future applications in computing (from self-driving cars to bioinformatics)
overwhelm the projected capabilities of current electronic systems. The need to process …

Design of nanorobots for exposing cancer cells

S Dolev, RP Narayanan, M Rosenblit - Nanotechnology, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We discuss in detail, the design of a nanorobot that can navigate, detect cancer cells in the
blood and actuate the exposure of drugs. The nanorobot is designed with blood energy …

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 …

Adjusting the operating voltage of an nanoelectromechanical relay using negative capacitance

K Choe, C Shin - IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The operating voltage of a nanoelectromechanical (NEM) relay can be scaled down
significantly using negative capacitance (NC), which is a unique property of ferroelectric …

Non-Volatile Nano-Electro-Mechanical Switches and Hybrid Circuits in a 16 nm CMOS Back-End-of-Line Process

U Sikder, R Naous, V Stojanović… - IEEE Electron Device …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reprogrammable non-volatile (NV) vertically-oriented nano-electro-mechanical (NEM)
switches with a compact footprint are successfully implemented using multiple back-end-of …

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 …

Molecular platform for fast low-voltage nanoelectromechanical switching

J Han, Z Nelson, MR Chua, TM Swager, F Niroui… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
The use of molecules as active components to build nanometer-scale devices inspires
emerging device concepts that employ the intrinsic functionality of molecules to address …

MEMS logic using mixed-frequency excitation

S Ilyas, N Jaber, MI Younis - Journal of Microelectromechanical …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present multi-function microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) logic device that can
perform the fundamental logic gate AND, OR, universal logic gates NAND, NOR, and a …

Three-dimensionally printed micro-electromechanical switches

Y Lee, J Han, B Choi, J Yoon, J Park… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Three-dimensional (3D) printers have attracted considerable attention from both industry
and academia and especially in recent years because of their ability to overcome the …