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The impact of random doping effects on CMOS SRAM cell
The SRAM has a very constrained cell area and is consequently sensitive to the intrinsic parameter fluctuations ubiquitous in decananometer scale MOSFETs. Using a statistical circuit simulation methodology, which can fully collate intrinsic parameter fluctuation information into compact model sets, the impact of random device doping on 6-T SRAM static noise margins, and read and write characteristics are investigated in detail for well-scaled 35 nm physical gate length devices. We conclude that intrinsic parameter fluctuations will become a major limitation to further conventional MOSFET SRAM scaling
Contrasting the magnetic response between magnetic-glass and reentrant spin-glass
Magnetic-glass is a recently identified phenomenon in various classes of
magnetic systems undergoing a first order magnetic phase transition. We shall
highlight here a few experimentally determined characteristics of
magnetic-glass and the relevant set of experiments, which will enable to
distinguish a magnetic-glass unequivocally from the well known phenomena of
spin-glass and reentrant spin-glass.Comment: 10 pages and 4 figures. The preprint has been amended after taking
care of various typographical errors, some errors in Figs.2 and 4 and with
the addition of some new references. This version has been accepted for
publication in Physical Review
A Reaction Diffusion Model Of Pattern Formation In Clustering Of Adatoms On Silicon Surfaces
We study a reaction diffusion model which describes the formation of patterns on surfaces having defects. Through this model, the primary goal is to study the growth process of Ge on Si surface. We consider a two species reaction diffusion process where the reacting species are assumed to diffuse on the two dimensional surface with first order interconversion reaction occuring at various defect sites which we call reaction centers. Two models of defects, namely a ring defect and a point defect are considered separately. As reaction centers are assumed to be strongly localized in space, the proposed reaction-diffusion model is found to be exactly solvable. We use Green's function method to study the dynamics of reaction diffusion processes. Further we explore this model through Monte Carlo (MC) simulations to study the growth processes in the presence of a large number of defects. The first passage time statistics has been studied numerically. Copyright 2012 Author(s). This article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4757592]Microelectronics Research Cente
Phases, many-body entropy measures and coherence of interacting bosons in optical lattices
Already a few bosons with contact interparticle interactions in small optical
lattices feature a variety of quantum phases: superfluid, Mott-insulator and
fermionized Tonks gases can be probed in such systems. To detect these phases
-- pivotal for both experiment and theory -- as well as their many-body
properties we analyze several distinct measures for the one-body and many-body
Shannon information entropies. We exemplify the connection of these entropies
with spatial correlations in the many-body state by contrasting them to the
Glauber normalized correlation functions. To obtain the ground-state for
lattices with commensurate filling (i.e. an integer number of particles per
site) for the full range of repulsive interparticle interactions we utilize the
multiconfigurational time-dependent Hartree method for bosons (MCTDHB) in order
to solve the many-boson Schr\"odinger equation. We demonstrate that all
emergent phases -- the superfluid, the Mott insulator, and the fermionized gas
can be characterized equivalently by our many-body entropy measures and by
Glauber's normalized correlation functions. In contrast to our many-body
entropy measures, single-particle entropy cannot capture these transitions.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures, software available at http://ultracold.or
UTB SOI SRAM cell stability under the influence of intrinsic parameter fluctuation
Intrinsic parameter fluctuations steadily increases with CMOS technology scaling. Around the 90nm technology node, such fluctuations will eliminate much of the available noise margin in SRAM based on conventional MOSFETs. Ultra thin body (UTB) SOI MOSFETs are expected to replace conventional MOSFETs for integrated memory applications due to superior electrostatic integrity and better resistant to some of the sources of intrinsic parameter fluctuations. To fully realise the performance benefits of UTB SOI based SRAM cells a statistical circuit simulation methodology which can fully capture intrinsic parameter fluctuation information into the compact model is developed. The impact on 6T SRAM static noise margin characteristics of discrete random dopants in the source/drain regions and body-thickness variations has been investigated for well scaled devices with physical channel length in the range of 10nm to 5nm. A comparison with the behaviour of a 6T SRAM based on a conventional 35nm MOSFET is also presented
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