Nanowire electronics: from nanoscale to macroscale

C Jia, Z Lin, Y Huang, X Duan - Chemical reviews, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
Semiconductor nanowires have attracted extensive interest as one of the best-defined
classes of nanoscale building blocks for the bottom-up assembly of functional electronic and …

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 …

Nonvolatile reconfigurable 2D Schottky barrier transistors

Z Zhao, S Rakheja, W Zhu - Nano letters, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Nonvolatile reconfigurable transistors can be used to implement highly flexible and compact
logic circuits with low power consumption in maintaining the configuration. In this paper, we …

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 …

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 …

Top-down fabricated reconfigurable FET with two symmetric and high-current on-states

M Simon, B Liang, D Fischer, M Knaut… - IEEE Electron …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate a top-down fabricated reconfigurable field effect transistor (RFET) based on
a silicon nanowire that can be electrostatically programmed to p-and n-configuration. The …

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 …

Vertically stacked nanosheets tree-type reconfigurable transistor with improved ON-current

Y Sun, X Li, Z Liu, Y Liu, X Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a novel tree-type channel reconfigurable field-effect transistor (RFET) is
proposed to obtain improved ON-state performance. Compared with the conventional …

Design of energy-efficient RFET-based exact and approximate 4: 2 compressors and multipliers

N Kavand, A Darjani, S Rai… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ever-increasing demand for low-power and area-efficient circuits for use in battery-
powered devices and the CMOS scaling problems have attracted the attention of VLSI …

Security promises and vulnerabilities in emerging reconfigurable nanotechnology-based circuits

S Rai, S Patnaik, A Rupani, J Knechtel… - … on Emerging Topics …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable field-effect transistors (RFETs) based on emerging nanotechnologies allow
switching between p-type and n-type behavior at runtime upon applying different bias …