Research Bits: May 7


High-temperature memory Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Air Force Research Laboratory demonstrated memory technology capable of enduring temperatures as high as 600° Celsius for more than 60 hours while retaining stability and reliability. The non-volatile memory device consists of a metal–insulator–metal structure, incorporating nickel and platinum electrodes with a 4... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: April 23


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library. [table id=216 /] Find last week’s technical paper additions here. » read more

Research Bits: April 16


Tunable thermal conductivity in memristors Researchers from the Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CiQUS) and Forschungszentrum Juelich discovered that oxide-based memristive devices can demonstrate tunable thermal conductivity. Alongside the memristor's electrical resistive switching, a thermal resistive switching effect also occurs at the metal-oxide inte... » read more

Using Palladium To Address Contact Issues Of Buried Oxide Thin Film Transistors


A new technical paper titled "Approach to Low Contact Resistance Formation on Buried Interface in Oxide Thin-Film Transistors: Utilization of Palladium-Mediated Hydrogen Pathway" was published by researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology and National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS). Abstract "Amorphous oxide semiconductors (AOSs) with low off-currents and processing temperatures... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: April 8


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library. [table id=214 /] Find last week’s technical paper additions here. » read more

High-Temp, High-Electron Mobility MOSFETs Based On N-Type Diamond


A new technical paper titled "High-Temperature and High-Electron Mobility Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors Based on N-Type Diamond" was published by researchers at National Institute for Materials Science (Japan). Abstract: "Diamond holds the highest figure-of-merits among all the known semiconductors for next-generation electronic devices far beyond the performance of c... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: March 26


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library. [table id=209 /] Find last week's technical paper additions here. » read more

Research Bits: Mar. 19


Superconducting loops Researchers from University of California San Diego and University of California Riverside propose using superconducting loops to store and transmit information in a method similar to the human brain. “Our brains have this remarkable gift of associative memory, which we don't really understand,” said Robert C. Dynes, professor of physics at UC San Diego and preside... » read more

Band-To-Band Tunneling And Negative Differential Resistance in Heterojunctions Built Entirely Using 2D Materials


A technical paper titled "Electrical characterization of multi-gated WSe2 /MoS2 van der Waals heterojunctions" was published by researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR), TU Dresden, National Institute for Materials Science (Japan) and NaMLab gGmbH. Abstract "Vertical stacking of different two-dimensional (2D) materials into van der Waals heterostructures exploits the pr... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Jan. 16


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=188 /] More ReadingTechnical Paper Library home » read more

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