The RFET—A reconfigurable nanowire transistor and its application to novel electronic circuits and systems

T Mikolajick, A Heinzig, J Trommer… - Semiconductor …, 2017‏ - iopscience.iop.org
With CMOS scaling reaching physical limits in the next decade, new approaches are
required to enhance the functionality of electronic systems. Reconfigurability on the device …

Reconfigurable nanowire electronics–a review

WM Weber, A Heinzig, J Trommer, D Martin… - Solid-State …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Reconfigurable nanowire transistors merge the electrical properties of unipolar n-and p-type
FETs into a single type of device with identic technology, geometry and composition. These …

Polarity control in double-gate, gate-all-around vertically stacked silicon nanowire FETs

M De Marchi, D Sacchetto, S Frache… - 2012 International …, 2012‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We fabricated and characterized new ambipolar silicon nanowire (SiNW) FET transistors
featuring two independent gate-all-around electrodes and vertically stacked SiNW channels …

Electrostatically Reversible Polarity of Ambipolar α-MoTe2 Transistors

S Nakaharai, M Yamamoto, K Ueno, YF Lin, SL Li… - ACS …, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
A do**-free transistor made of ambipolar α-phase molybdenum ditelluride (α-MoTe2) is
proposed in which the transistor polarity (p-type and n-type) is electrostatically controlled by …

Designing efficient circuits based on runtime-reconfigurable field-effect transistors

S Rai, J Trommer, M Raitza, T Mikolajick… - … Transactions on Very …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An early evaluation in terms of circuit design is essential in order to assess the feasibility and
practicability aspects for emerging nanotechnologies. Reconfigurable nanotechnologies …

High-performance ternary adder using CNTFET

SK Sahoo, G Akhilesh, R Sahoo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ternary logic is a promising alternative to the conventional binary logic in VLSI design as it
provides the advantages of reduced interconnects, higher operating speeds, and smaller …

Enabling energy efficiency and polarity control in germanium nanowire transistors by individually gated nanojunctions

J Trommer, A Heinzig, U Muhle, M Loffler, A Winzer… - ACS …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Germanium is a promising material for future very large scale integration transistors, due to
its superior hole mobility. However, germanium-based devices typically suffer from high …

Functionality-enhanced logic gate design enabled by symmetrical reconfigurable silicon nanowire transistors

J Trommer, A Heinzig, T Baldauf… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable silicon nanowire field-effect transistors (RFETs) combine the functionality of
classical unipolar p-type and n-type FETs in one universal device. In this paper, we show …

Top–down fabrication of gate-all-around vertically stacked silicon nanowire FETs with controllable polarity

M De Marchi, D Sacchetto, J Zhang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the current MOSFET scaling trend is facing strong limitations, technologies exploiting
novel degrees of freedom at physical and architecture level are promising candidates to …

Silicon and germanium nanowire electronics: physics of conventional and unconventional transistors

WM Weber, T Mikolajick - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Research in the field of electronics of 1D group-IV semiconductor structures has attracted
increasing attention over the past 15 years. The exceptional combination of the unique 1D …