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Effect of Step Gate Work Function on InGaAs p-TFET for Low Power Switching Applications

  • Sayed Md Tariful Azam,
  • Abu Saleh Md Bakibillah,
  • Md Tanvir Hasan and
  • Md Abdus Samad Kamal

23 November 2021

In this study, we theoretically investigated the effect of step gate work function on the InGaAs p-TFET device, which is formed by dual material gate (DMG). We analyzed the performance parameters of the device for low power digital and analog applica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Semiconductor and Nanophotonic Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,434 Views
13 Pages

The Development of a Large-Area Microchannel Plate Photomultiplier Tube with a Gate Function

  • Ziyu Liu,
  • Hulin Liu,
  • Ping Chen,
  • Kuinian Li,
  • Yonglin Wei,
  • Luanxuan He,
  • Xinnan Zhao,
  • Wei Zhao and
  • Jinshou Tian

To meet the application requirements of neutron detectors, a novel large-area microchannel plate photomultiplier tube with a gate function (G-MCP-PMT) was developed in this study. A kind of regular hexagonal mesh electrode as the gated electrode was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,537 Views
15 Pages

Understanding the Origin of Metal Gate Work Function Shift and Its Impact on Erase Performance in 3D NAND Flash Memories

  • Sivaramakrishnan Ramesh,
  • Arjun Ajaykumar,
  • Lars-Åke Ragnarsson,
  • Laurent Breuil,
  • Gabriel Khalil El Hajjam,
  • Ben Kaczer,
  • Attilio Belmonte,
  • Laura Nyns,
  • Jean-Philippe Soulié and
  • Maarten Rosmeulen
  • + 1 author

8 September 2021

We studied the metal gate work function of different metal electrode and high-k dielectric combinations by monitoring the flat band voltage shift with dielectric thicknesses using capacitance–voltage measurements. We investigated the impact of differ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Flash Memory Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,945 Views
24 Pages

24 August 2025

We systematically investigate the combined impact of process variation effects (PVEs), metal gate work function fluctuation (WKF), and random dopant fluctuation (RDF) on the key electrical characteristics of sub-1-nm technology node gate-all-around s...

(This article belongs to the Section Nanoelectronics, Nanosensors and Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,524 Views
33 Pages

24 September 2022

Recently, we identified two types (A and B) of energy processes that naturally occur on Earth. Type-A energetic process such as the classical heat engines follows well the thermodynamic second law; Type-B energy process follows the first law of therm...

(This article belongs to the Section Energetics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,061 Views
16 Pages

Quantification of Left Atrial Size and Function in Cardiac MR in Correlation to Non-Gated MR and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Subjects without Cardiovascular Disease: A Population-Based Cohort Study

  • Charlotte Kulka,
  • Roberto Lorbeer,
  • Esther Askani,
  • Elias Kellner,
  • Marco Reisert,
  • Ricarda von Krüchten,
  • Susanne Rospleszcz,
  • Dunja Hasic,
  • Annette Peters and
  • Christopher L. Schlett
  • + 1 author

31 August 2022

Background: In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the comparability of gated and non-gated measurements of the left atrial (LA) area and function and their association with cardiovascular risk factors have not been firmly established. Methods: 3-Tesla...

(This article belongs to the Topic Cardiac Imaging: State of the Art)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,356 Views
15 Pages

The proposed 8-Transistor (8T) Physically Unclonable Function (PUF), in conjunction with the power gating technique, can significantly accelerate a single evaluation cycle more than 100,000 times faster than a 6-Transistor (6T) Static Random-Access M...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ultra-Low-Power ICs for the Internet of Things (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,941 Views
11 Pages

This study aimed to evaluate cardiac function in a young mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (mdx) using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with feature tracking and self-gated magnetic resonance cine imaging. Cardiac function was evalua...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,330 Views
19 Pages

19 January 2024

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated significant superiority in modern artificial intelligence (AI) applications. To accelerate the inference process of CNNs, reconfigurable CNN accelerators that support diverse networks are widely...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Engineering and Technology)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,163 Views
12 Pages

14 October 2022

A novel inhibitable and firing threshold voltage tunable vertical nanowire (NW) single transistor neuron device with core–shell dual-gate (CSDG) was realized and verified by TCAD simulation. The CSDG NW neuron is enclosed by an independently accessed...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Physics)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,005 Views
8 Pages

The integrated circuit (IC) industry has rapidly developed, with chip hardware security assuming a critical role in IC design. The physical unclonable function (PUF) exploits semiconductor process variation differences to generate unique responses ra...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 2024 IEEE 6th Eurasia Conference on IoT, Communication and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,788 Views
10 Pages

25 January 2022

We present technology computer aided design (TCAD) results for wide band-gap Sn-doped α-Ga2O3 metal–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MESFETs). In particular, the effect of gate work function and electrode gap length on the electric...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,576 Views
14 Pages

Expanding the Set of Three-Input Logic Functions in Inverted T-Shaped TFETs

  • Hao Ye,
  • Pengjun Wang,
  • Gang Li,
  • Yijian Shi,
  • Bo Chen,
  • Xiangyu Li and
  • Jianping Hu

14 February 2023

Three-input logic primitives show high efficiency in logic synthesis compared to traditional two-input logic, which encourages researchers to implement three-input logic gates with emerging nanotechnologies. This paper demonstrates a compact implemen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging CMOS Devices, Volume II)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,450 Views
16 Pages

20 November 2017

A method for synthesizing quantum gates is presented based on interpolation methods applied to operators in Hilbert space. Starting from the diagonal forms of specific generating seed operators with non-degenerate eigenvalue spectrum one obtains for...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 4th International Electronic Conference on Entropy and Its Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
25,977 Views
24 Pages

11 June 2019

The continuous down-scaling of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) field effect transistors (FETs) had been suffering two fateful technical issues, one relative to the thinning of gate dielectric and the other to the aggressive shortening...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical and Molecular Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,773 Views
19 Pages

An Electrolyte-Gated Graphene Field-Effect Transistor for Detection of Gadolinium(III) in Aqueous Media

  • Charlène Gadroy,
  • Rassen Boukraa,
  • Nicolas Battaglini,
  • Franck Le Derf,
  • Nadine Mofaddel,
  • Julien Vieillard and
  • Benoît Piro

9 March 2023

In this work, an electrolyte-gated graphene field-effect transistor is developed for Gd3+ ion detection in water. The source and drain electrodes of the transistor are fabricated by photolithography on polyimide, while the graphene channel is obtaine...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental, Agricultural, and Food Biosensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,976 Views
20 Pages

In the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, as the scale of existing quantum hardware continues to expand, the demand for effective methods to schedule quantum gates and minimize the number of operations has become increasingly urgent. To add...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,379 Views
9 Pages

Investigation on Ambipolar Current Suppression Using a Stacked Gate in an L-shaped Tunnel Field-Effect Transistor

  • Junsu Yu,
  • Sihyun Kim,
  • Donghyun Ryu,
  • Kitae Lee,
  • Changha Kim,
  • Jong-Ho Lee,
  • Sangwan Kim and
  • Byung-Gook Park

3 November 2019

L-shaped tunnel field-effect transistor (TFET) provides higher on-current than a conventional TFET through band-to-band tunneling in the vertical direction of the channel. However, L-shaped TFET is disadvantageous for low-power applications because o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Extremely-Low-Power Devices and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,240 Views
10 Pages

Analysis of Current Variation with Work Function Variation in L-Shaped Tunnel-Field Effect Transistor

  • Jang Hyun Kim,
  • Hyun Woo Kim,
  • Young Suh Song,
  • Sangwan Kim and
  • Garam Kim

15 August 2020

In this paper, an investigation is performed to analyze the L-shaped tunnel field-effect transistor (TFET) depending on a gate work function variation (WFV) with help of technology computer-aided design (TCAD) simulation. Depending on the gate voltag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,196 Views
6 Pages

Low Gate Lag Normally-Off p-GaN/AlGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistor with Zirconium Gate Metal

  • Chia-Hao Liu,
  • Hsien-Chin Chiu,
  • Chong-Rong Huang,
  • Kuo-Jen Chang,
  • Chih-Tien Chen and
  • Kuang-Po Hsueh

6 January 2020

The impact of gate metal on the leakage current and breakdown voltage of normally-off p-GaN gate high-electron-mobility-transistor (HEMT) with nickel (Ni) and zirconium (Zr) metals were studied and investigated. In this study, a Zr metal as a gate co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from Taiwan Association for Academic Innovation, TAAI 2019)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,730 Views
7 Pages

Oxide electrolyte-gated transistors have shown the ability to emulate various synaptic functions, but they still require a high gate voltage to form long-term plasticity. Here, we studied electrolyte-gated transistors based on InOx with tungsten dopi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,108 Views
10 Pages

Based on the minimum conduction band edge caused by the minimum channel potential resulting from the quasi-3D scaling theory and the 3D density of state (DOS) accompanied by the Fermi–Dirac distribution function on the source and drain sides, a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Metal Oxide Semiconductors for Electronic Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
10,424 Views
16 Pages

As a subtype of voltage-gated sodium channel and predominantly expressed in the sensory neurons located in the dorsal root ganglion (DRG), the Nav1.8 channel encoded by the SCN10A gene is found to have different variants in patients suffering chronic...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomacromolecules: Proteins, Nucleic Acids and Carbohydrates)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,313 Views
29 Pages

Synergistic Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks and Fidelity-Gated Transformer for Hyperspectral Anomaly Detection

  • Jijun Xiang,
  • Tao Wang,
  • Pengxiang Wang,
  • Cheng Chen,
  • Nian Wang,
  • Jiping Cao and
  • Qiying Wang

9 December 2025

Hyperspectral anomaly detection (HAD) remains a critical challenge in remote sensing, aiming to precisely separate sparse, unknown anomalies from complex, high-proportion backgrounds. Although deep learning architectures, particularly the Transformer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Recent Progression of Machine Learning in Remote Sensing: Theory and Modelling)
  • Review
  • Open Access
150 Views
19 Pages

SCN4A Channelopathies: From Disease Mechanisms to Variant Interpretation

  • Paola D’Ambrosio,
  • Lorenzo Cipriano,
  • Alessia Pugliese,
  • Roberta Petillo,
  • Dario Ricciardi,
  • Francesco Habetswallner,
  • Carmelo Rodolico and
  • Manuela Priolo

14 September 2026

SCN4A encodes the skeletal-muscle voltage-gated sodium channel NaV1.4. Pathogenic variation in this gene produces fundamentally different disease mechanisms, including dominant alpha-pore gain of function, dominant S4 gating-pore currents, and reduce...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Genetics of Neuromuscular Disorders: From Gene Diagnosis to Treatment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,499 Views
14 Pages

Memristors, as new electronic elements, have been under rigorous study in recent years, owing to their good memory and switching properties, low power consumption, nano-dimensions and a good compatibility to present integrated circuits, related to th...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS))
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,085 Views
22 Pages

24 March 2023

We compare the pH sensing performance of non-functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNT) field-effect transistors (p-CNTFET) and CNTFET functionalized with a conjugated polyfluorene polymer (labeled FF-UR) bearing urea-based moieties (f-CNTFET). The device...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanostructures for Integrated Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,680 Views
12 Pages

8 November 2021

In this study, the B3LYP hybrid density functional theory was used to investigate the electromechanical characteristics of C70 fullerene with and without point charges to model the effect of the surface of the gate electrode in a C70 single-electron...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Study of Nanomaterials)
  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,787 Views
36 Pages

Analog Gaussian Function Circuit: Architectures, Operating Principles and Applications

  • Vassilis Alimisis,
  • Marios Gourdouparis,
  • Georgios Gennis,
  • Christos Dimas and
  • Paul P. Sotiriadis

17 October 2021

This review paper explores existing architectures, operating principles, performance metrics and applications of analog Gaussian function circuits. Architectures based on the translinear principle, the bulk-controlled approach, the floating gate appr...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,251 Views
22 Pages

Learnable Gated Convolutional Neural Network for Semantic Segmentation in Remote-Sensing Images

  • Shichen Guo,
  • Qizhao Jin,
  • Hongzhen Wang,
  • Xuezhi Wang,
  • Yangang Wang and
  • Shiming Xiang

17 August 2019

Semantic segmentation in high-resolution remote-sensing (RS) images is a fundamental task for RS-based urban understanding and planning. However, various types of artificial objects in urban areas make this task quite challenging. Recently, the use o...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,398 Views
22 Pages

27 June 2024

We have now identified two thermodynamically distinct types (A and B) of energetic processes naturally occurring on Earth. Type-A energy processes, such as classical heat engines, apparently well follow the second law of thermodynamics; Type-B energy...

(This article belongs to the Section D: Chemistry: Symmetry/Asymmetry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,223 Views
30 Pages

6 February 2012

Ion channels, which are found in every biological cell, regulate the concentration of electrolytes, and are responsible for multiple biological functions, including in particular the propagation of nerve impulses. The channels with the latter functio...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1,010 Views
11 Pages

13 November 2025

Multiplexed detection of arboviruses using a 4 × 4 Si-based electrolyte-gated transistor (EGT) array functionalized with specific aptamers has been investigated. The Si-based EGTs were fabricated using conventional Si microfabrication processes. The...

(This article belongs to the Section B4: Point-of-Care Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,938 Views
19 Pages

4 October 2018

A field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based digital solver for real-time electromechanical transient simulation is designed in this paper. The solving process for a device or sub-network in an electromechanical transient simulation is packaged into...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,037 Views
12 Pages

8 May 2019

In this study, we investigate direct current (DC)/alternating current (AC) characteristic variability induced by work function fluctuation (WKF) with respect to different nanosized metal grains and the variation of aspect ratios (ARs) of channel cros...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanowire Field-Effect Transistor (FET))
  • Article
  • Open Access
544 Views
20 Pages

2 June 2026

Dams are widely distributed in global water bodies and cause severe impacts on aquatic ecosystems. In this study, the Sizao River Basin was selected to explore the effects of dams on the macroinvertebrate community, including functional feeding group...

(This article belongs to the Section Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
296 Views
21 Pages

26 August 2026

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) has become an important signal source in motor imagery (MI) brain–computer interface research due to its non-invasive nature and high application flexibility. However, fNIRS signals exhibit signific...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,377 Views
19 Pages

19 October 2020

Pixels of clouds and cloud shadows in a remote sensing image impact image quality, image interpretation, and subsequent applications. In this paper, we propose a novel cloud removal method based on deep learning that automatically reconstructs the in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,901 Views
22 Pages

FPGA Implementation of a Functional Neuro-Fuzzy Network for Nonlinear System Control

  • Jyun-Yu Jhang,
  • Kuang-Hui Tang,
  • Chuan-Kuei Huang,
  • Cheng-Jian Lin and
  • Kuu-Young Young

This study used Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to implement a functional neuro-fuzzy network (FNFN) for solving nonlinear control problems. A functional link neural network (FLNN) was used as the consequent part of the proposed FNFN mo...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,176 Views
20 Pages

10 May 2024

Brain–computer interface (BCI) systems include signal acquisition, preprocessing, feature extraction, classification, and an application phase. In fNIRS-BCI systems, deep learning (DL) algorithms play a crucial role in enhancing accuracy. Unlik...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Brain Computer Interface for Biomedical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,237 Views
21 Pages

A New Loss Function for Enhancing Peak Prediction in Time Series Data with High Variability

  • Mahan Hajiabbasi Somehsaraie,
  • Soheyla Tofighi,
  • Zhaoan Wang,
  • Jun Wang and
  • Shaoping Xiao

Time series models are considered among the most intricate models in machine learning. Due to sharp temporal variations, time series models normally fall short in predicting the peaks or local minima accurately. To overcome this challenge, we propose...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers of Forecasting 2025)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,995 Views
19 Pages

30 April 2025

In this article, we introduce a novel deep learning hybrid model that integrates attention Transformer and gated recurrent unit (GRU) architectures to improve the accuracy of cryptocurrency price predictions. By combining the Transformer’s stre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Time Series Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,602 Views
17 Pages

An Area-Efficient and Low-Error FPGA-Based Sigmoid Function Approximation

  • Vinicius de Azevedo Bosso,
  • Ricardo Masson Nardini,
  • Miguel Angelo de Abreu de Sousa,
  • Sara Dereste dos Santos and
  • Ricardo Pires

29 October 2025

Neuromorphic hardware systems allow efficient implementation of artificial neural networks (ANNs) across various applications that demand high data throughput, reduced physical size, and low energy consumption. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
8,697 Views
24 Pages

22 May 2023

Surface roughness is a key indicator of the quality of mechanical products, which can precisely portray the fatigue strength, wear resistance, surface hardness and other properties of the products. The convergence of current machine-learning-based su...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,760 Views
28 Pages

2 November 2022

The review focuses on four issues that are critical for the understanding of monofunctional catalases. How hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) reaches the active site and outcompetes water molecules to be able to function at a very high rate is one of the issue...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Role of Peroxidases and Catalases in Photosynthetic and Non–photosynthetic Eukaryotes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,391 Views
26 Pages

25 May 2021

Through the research presented herein, it is quite clear that there are two thermodynamically distinct types (A and B) of energetic processes naturally occurring on Earth. Type A, such as glycolysis and the tricarboxylic acid cycle, apparently follow...

(This article belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,366 Views
15 Pages

28 August 2023

Hash functions are an essential mechanism in today’s world of information security. It is common practice to utilize them for storing and verifying passwords, developing pseudo-random sequences, and deriving keys for various applications, inclu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Approaches for Information Security in Complex Cyber-Physical Systems)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,363 Views
9 Pages

Investigation of Memristor-Based Neural Networks on Pattern Recognition

  • Gayatri Routhu,
  • Ngangbam Phalguni Singh,
  • Selvakumar Raja and
  • Eppala Shashi Kumar Reddy

13 March 2023

Mobile phones, laptops, computers, digital watches, and digital calculators are some of the most used products in our daily life. In the background, to make these gadgets work as per our desire, there are many simple components necessary for electron...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of International Conference on “Holography Meets Advanced Manufacturing”)
  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
14,083 Views
30 Pages

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have firmly established themselves as dynamic platforms for the implementation of physical unclonable functions (PUFs). Their intrinsic reconfigurability and profound implications for enhancing hardware security...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Hardware Security II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,556 Views
16 Pages

Enhancing Local Functional Structure Features to Improve Drug–Target Interaction Prediction

  • Baoming Feng,
  • Haofan Du,
  • Henry H. Y. Tong,
  • Xu Wang and
  • Kefeng Li

20 October 2025

Molecular simulation is central to modern drug discovery but is often limited by high computational cost and the complexity of molecular interactions. Deep-learning drug–target interaction (DTI) prediction can accelerate screening; however, man...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Computer-Aided Design: Molecular Simulation Technology in Exploring Bioactive Compounds for Health Promotion)

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