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Silicon stacked tunnel transistor for high-speed and high-density random access memory gain cell
Design of New Logic Architectures Utilizing Optimized Suspended-Gate Single-Electron Transistors
The impacts of silicon substrate surface conditions on the VLS growth of germanium nanowires
Enhanced tunnel conductance due to QCA cotunneling processes observed for silicon serial triple quantum dots
Variation of Electrostatic Coupling and Investigation of Current Percolation Paths in Nanocrystalline Silicon Cross Transistors
Nanocrystalline silicon thin films are promising materials for the development of advanced Large Scale Integration compatible quantum-dot and single-electron charging devices. The films consist of nanometer-scale grains of crystalline silicon, separated by amorphous silicon or silicon dioxide grain boundaries up to a few nanometer thick. These films have been used to fabricate single-electron transistor and memory devices, where the grains form single-electron charging islands isolated by tunnel barriers formed by the grain boundaries. The grain boundary tunnel barrier isolating the grains is also of great importance, as this determines the extent of the electrostatic and tunnel coupling between different grains. These effects can lead to the nanocrystalline silicon thin film behaving as a system of coupled quantum dots.& more..
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