Innovations in relevant micro-contact areas are highlighted, these include, design, contact
resistance modeling, contact materials, performance and reliability. For each area the basic …

The need for more energy-efficient solid-state switches beyond complementary metal-oxide-
semiconductor (CMOS) transistors has become a major concern as the power consumption …

3-D sequential integration stands out from other 3-D schemes as it enables the full use of the
third dimension. Indeed, in this approach, 3-D contact density matches with the transistor …

Severe security threats and alerts associated with the use of smart devices have drawn
increasing public attentions since the inception of Internet of Things (IoT) in late 1990s. IoT …

With increasing challenges towards continued scaling and improvement in performance
faced by electronic computing, mechanical computing has started to attract growing …

Direct contact, ohmic MEMS switches for RF applications have several advantages over
other conventional switching devices. Advantages include lower insertion loss, higher …

Nanoelectronics comprises a variety of devices whose electrical properties are more
complex as compared to CMOS, thus enabling new computational paradigms. The …

In this paper, a detailed analysis and comparison of nanoelectromechanical systems
(NEMS) and CMOS technologies for low power adiabatic logic implementation is presented …

Integrated nanoelectromechanical (NEM) relays can be used instead of transistors to
implement ultra-low power logic circuits, due to their abrupt turn off characteristics and zero …

The impact of device operating parameters on the ON-state resistance (R ON) of
microelectromechanical relays with tungsten (W) electrodes is reported. Due to the …