Design And Characterization Of Silicon Nanowire Transistor And Logic Nanowire Inverter Circuits

The most important limitation in planer MOSFETs is current leakage between the source and the drain at the off-state (IOFF), which presents a critical problem in securing circuit reliability. To mitigate this problem, there are new types of transistors with a 3D structure, including silicon na...

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Main Author: Naif, Yasir Hashim
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spelling my-usm-ep.452232019-08-07T07:43:56Z Design And Characterization Of Silicon Nanowire Transistor And Logic Nanowire Inverter Circuits 2013-07 Naif, Yasir Hashim TK1-9971 Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering The most important limitation in planer MOSFETs is current leakage between the source and the drain at the off-state (IOFF), which presents a critical problem in securing circuit reliability. To mitigate this problem, there are new types of transistors with a 3D structure, including silicon nanowire transistors (SiNWT). In order to optimize dimensions, ambient temperature and orientation of channel in SiNWT design, simulation is needed to characterize the behaviour of the SiNWT and help making design decisions. Over the last decade, there have been many researches focused on SiNWTs fabrication fields. However, these researches are all based on fabrication fields. Therefore, in this research, dimensions, ambient temperature and orientation of channel are modelled and taken into account to analyze performance improvement of SiNWT. Furthermore, in order to optimize dimensions, and logiclevel voltages of nanowire logic inverters circuits design, simulation is needed to characterize the limits of noise margins of the NW logic inverter and help making design decisions. There have been some proposed researches focused on NW logic inverters fabrication without focusing on optimization of logic levels and dimensions depending on noise margins as a limitation factor which represents a critical factor in the working of logic circuits performance, and this study is intended to be the first research to demonstrate dimensional optimization of nanowire logic inverter. This research contains two main parts, first part on the characterization of silicon nanowire transistor and the second on studying the characteristics of nanowire (NW) inverters. 2013-07 Thesis http://eprints.usm.my/45223/ http://eprints.usm.my/45223/1/Yasir%20Hashim%20Naif24.pdf application/pdf en public phd doctoral Universiti Sains Malaysia Pusat Pengajian Kejuruteraan Elektrik & Elektronik
institution Universiti Sains Malaysia
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topic TK1-9971 Electrical engineering
Electronics
Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK1-9971 Electrical engineering
Electronics
Nuclear engineering
Naif, Yasir Hashim
Design And Characterization Of Silicon Nanowire Transistor And Logic Nanowire Inverter Circuits
description The most important limitation in planer MOSFETs is current leakage between the source and the drain at the off-state (IOFF), which presents a critical problem in securing circuit reliability. To mitigate this problem, there are new types of transistors with a 3D structure, including silicon nanowire transistors (SiNWT). In order to optimize dimensions, ambient temperature and orientation of channel in SiNWT design, simulation is needed to characterize the behaviour of the SiNWT and help making design decisions. Over the last decade, there have been many researches focused on SiNWTs fabrication fields. However, these researches are all based on fabrication fields. Therefore, in this research, dimensions, ambient temperature and orientation of channel are modelled and taken into account to analyze performance improvement of SiNWT. Furthermore, in order to optimize dimensions, and logiclevel voltages of nanowire logic inverters circuits design, simulation is needed to characterize the limits of noise margins of the NW logic inverter and help making design decisions. There have been some proposed researches focused on NW logic inverters fabrication without focusing on optimization of logic levels and dimensions depending on noise margins as a limitation factor which represents a critical factor in the working of logic circuits performance, and this study is intended to be the first research to demonstrate dimensional optimization of nanowire logic inverter. This research contains two main parts, first part on the characterization of silicon nanowire transistor and the second on studying the characteristics of nanowire (NW) inverters.
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title Design And Characterization Of Silicon Nanowire Transistor And Logic Nanowire Inverter Circuits
title_short Design And Characterization Of Silicon Nanowire Transistor And Logic Nanowire Inverter Circuits
title_full Design And Characterization Of Silicon Nanowire Transistor And Logic Nanowire Inverter Circuits
title_fullStr Design And Characterization Of Silicon Nanowire Transistor And Logic Nanowire Inverter Circuits
title_full_unstemmed Design And Characterization Of Silicon Nanowire Transistor And Logic Nanowire Inverter Circuits
title_sort design and characterization of silicon nanowire transistor and logic nanowire inverter circuits
granting_institution Universiti Sains Malaysia
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publishDate 2013
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