Understanding energy dissipation and transport in nanoscale structures is of great
importance for the design of energy-efficient circuits and energy-conversion systems. This is …

Power has become the primary design constraint for chip designers today. While Moore's
law continues to provide additional transistors, power budgets have begun to prohibit those …

As transistors are reaching their fundamental limits in terms of power consumption,
miniaturization, and heat generation, there is an imminent need to develop alternate …

Despite generation upon generation of scaling, computer chips have until now remained
essentially 2-dimensional. Improvements in on-chip wire delay and in the maximum number …

Scaling transistors into the nanometer regime has resulted in a dramatic increase in MOS
leakage (ie, off-state) current. Threshold voltages of transistors have scaled to maintain …

After decades of continuous scaling, further advancement of silicon microelectronics across
the entire spectrum of computing applications is today limited by power dissipation. While …

The effects of random dopant fluctuations (RDFs) on the performance of Germanium-source
tunnel field-effect transistors (TFETs) is studied using 3-D device simulation. The RDF in the …

Subthreshold circuits have drawn a strong interest in recent ultralow power research. In this
paper, we present a highly efficient subthreshold microprocessor targeting sensor …

In this paper, we present measured within-die core-to-core Fmax and leakage variation data
for an 80-core processor in 65 nm CMOS and 1) populate a parameterized …

In this study, we explore the design of a subthreshold processor for use in ultra-low-energy
sensor systems. We describe an 8-bit subthreshold processor that has been designed with …