Transmission Engineering as a Route to Subthermal Switching

Transmission Engineering as a Route to Subthermal Switching

The physics of low subthreshold devices is interpreted in terms of a gate-dependent change in their mode-averaged transmission function, in addition to a capacitive shift in their overall mode spectrum. Accordingly, we explore a variety of subthermal switches that alter the bandwidth, bandgap or amp...

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Main Author: Avik W. Ghosh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2015-01-01
Series:IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society
Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7058412/
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spelling doaj-35cc13005b104a44a944986e4604db7e2021-03-29T18:43:09ZengIEEEIEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society2168-67342015-01-013313514310.1109/JEDS.2015.24116227058412Transmission Engineering as a Route to Subthermal SwitchingAvik W. Ghosh0Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USAThe physics of low subthreshold devices is interpreted in terms of a gate-dependent change in their mode-averaged transmission function, in addition to a capacitive shift in their overall mode spectrum. Accordingly, we explore a variety of subthermal switches that alter the bandwidth, bandgap or amplitude of the transmission, and combinations thereof. The Landauer theory for current flow provides a convenient way to derive the subthreshold swing in each case analytically and suggests ways to beat the Boltzmann limit.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7058412/
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description The physics of low subthreshold devices is interpreted in terms of a gate-dependent change in their mode-averaged transmission function, in addition to a capacitive shift in their overall mode spectrum. Accordingly, we explore a variety of subthermal switches that alter the bandwidth, bandgap or amplitude of the transmission, and combinations thereof. The Landauer theory for current flow provides a convenient way to derive the subthreshold swing in each case analytically and suggests ways to beat the Boltzmann limit.
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