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Devices in advanced technology nodes: application-specific characterization

May 21, 2017
Author(s)
gennadi bersuker, Dmitry Veksler, Donald Pierce, Maribeth Mason
Scaled advanced node devices incorporate new combinations of semiconductor materials and ultra-thin multi-layer dielectric stacks. As a consequence, inter-material interactions may unpredictably affect transistor electrical characteristics and reliability

Temperature dependence of electron density and electron-electron interactions in monolayer epitaxial graphene grown on SiC

January 25, 2017
Author(s)
Chieh W. Liu, Chiashain Chuang, Yanfei Yang, Randolph Elmquist, Yi-Ju Ho, Hsin Y. Lee, Chi-Te Liang
We report carrier density measurements and electron-electron (e-e) interactions in monolayer epitaxial graphene grown on SiC. The temperature (T)-independent carrier density determined from the Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations clearly demonstrates that

Origins and Demonstrations of Electrons with Orbital Angular Momentum

January 9, 2017
Author(s)
Benjamin McMorran, Amit Agrawal, Peter Ercius, Vincenzo Grillo, Andrew Herzing, Tyler R. Harvey, Martin Linck
The surprising message of the 1992 paper of Allen, Beijersbergen, Spreeuw, and Woerdman (ABSW) was that photons could exhibit orbital motion in free space, which subsequently launched advancements in optical manipulation, microscopy, quantum optics

A Few Selected Contributions to electron and photon collisions with H_2+ and H_2

October 23, 2016
Author(s)
Barry I. Schneider, Lee A. Collins, klaus Bartschat, Xiaoxu Guan, Suxing Hu
We discuss a number of aspects regarding the physics of H_2+ nd H_2. This includes low-energy electron scattering processes and the interaction of both weak (perturbative) and strong (ultrafast/intense) electromagnetic radiation with those systems.

Antiferromagnetic domain wall motion driven by spin-orbit torques

August 16, 2016
Author(s)
Takayuki Shiino, Se-Hyeok Oh, Paul M. Haney, Seo-Won Lee, Gyungchoon Go, Byong-Guk Park, Kyung-Jin Lee
We theoretically investigate dynamics of antiferromagnetic domain walls driven by spin-orbit torques in antiferromagnet/heavy metal bilayers. We show that spin-orbit torques drive antiferromagnetic domain walls much faster than ferromagnetic domain walls

Interfacial magnetic anisotropy from a 3-dimensional Rashba substrate

July 18, 2016
Author(s)
Junwen Li, Paul M. Haney
We study the magnetic anisotropy which arises at the interface between a thin film ferromagnet and a 3-d Rashba material. The 3-d Rashba material is characterized by the spin-orbit strength $\alpha$ and the direction of broken bulk inversion symmetry $\hat

Observation of Strong Reflection of Electron Waves Exiting a Ballistic Channel at Low Energy

June 10, 2016
Author(s)
Jason Campbell, Jason Ryan, Kin P. Cheung, David J. Gundlach, Changze Liu, Canute I. Vaz, Richard G. Southwick III, Anthony S. Oates, Ru Huang
Wave scattering by a potential step is a nearly ubiquitous concept. Thus, it is surprising that theoretical treatments of ballistic transport in nanoscale devices, from quantum point contacts to ballistic transistors, assume no reflection even when the

Electrical Units in the New SI: Saying Goodbye to the 1990 Values

May 12, 2016
Author(s)
Nick Fletcher, Gert Rietveld, James K. Olthoff, Ilya F. Budovsky
The proposed redefinition of several SI base units is a topic that has been on the metrology agenda for the last decade. The general principles and the motivation for the changes have been presented at the NCSLI several times. However, recent progress on

Direct imaging of coexisting ordered and frustrated sublattices in artificial ferromagnetic quasicrystals

April 25, 2016
Author(s)
Barry Farmer, Vinayak Bhat, Andrew L. Balk, Eric Teipel, Nathan Smith, John Unguris, D.J. Keavney, Todd Hastings, L .E. De Long
Quasicrystals are rarely found in nature and are difficult to grow in the laboratory, but exhibit unique physical properties resulting from their signature long-range structural order without periodic translational symmetry. Magnetic interactions in

Optical Spintronics in Organic-Inorganic Perovskites Photovoltaics

April 25, 2016
Author(s)
Junwen Li, Paul M. Haney
Organic-inorganic halide CH 3NH 3PbI 3 solar cells have attracted enormous attention in recent years due to their remarkable power conversion efficiency. These materials should exhibit interesting spin-dependent properties as well, owing to the strong spin

Device-Level Jitter as a Probe of Ultrafast Traps in High-k MOSFETs

April 16, 2016
Author(s)
Dmitry Veksler, Jason Campbell, Kin Cheung, J. Zhong, H. Zhu, C. Zhao
A methodology for evaluation of ultra-fast interfacial traps, using jitter measurements as a probe, is developed. This methodology is applied to study the effect of PBTI stress on density of ultra-fast electron traps (with 500ps to 5ns characteristic

Virtual rough samples to test 3D nanometer-scale SEM stereo photogrammetry

March 22, 2016
Author(s)
John S. Villarrubia, Vipin N. Tondare, Andras Vladar
The combination of SEM for high spatial resolution, images from multiple angles to provide 3D information, and commercially available stereo photogrammetry software for 3D reconstruction offers promise for dimensional metrology in 3D. A method is described

Engineering Near-Field SEIRA Enhancements in Plasmonic Resonators

January 20, 2016
Author(s)
Jungseok Chae, Basudev Lahiri, Andrea Centrone
Engineering of the optical resonances in plasmonic resonators arrays is achieved by virtue of the intrinsic properties to the constituent structures such as composition, size and shape and by controlling the inter-resonator interactions by virtue the array

Scanning electron microscope measurement of width and shape of 10 nm patterned lines using a JMONSEL-modeled library

July 1, 2015
Author(s)
John S. Villarrubia, Andras Vladar, Bin Ming, Regis J. Kline, Daniel F. Sunday, Jasmeet Chawla, Scott List
The width and shape of 10 nm to 12 nm wide lithographically patterned SiO2 lines were measured in the scanning electron microscope by fitting the measured intensity vs. position to a physics-based model in which the lines’ widths and shapes are parameters

Tunable Spin Qubit Coupling Mediated by a Multi-Electron Quantum Dot

June 4, 2015
Author(s)
Vanita Srinivasa, Haitan Xu, Jacob M. Taylor
We present an approach for entangling electron spin qubits localized on spatially separated impurity atoms or quantum dots via a multi-electron, two-level quantum dot. The effective exchange interaction mediated by the dot can be understood as the simplest

3D Monte Carlo modeling of the SEM: Are there applications to photomask metrology?

October 23, 2014
Author(s)
John S. Villarrubia, Andras Vladar, Michael T. Postek
The ability to model the effect of fields due to charges trapped in insulators with floating conductors has been added to JMONSEL (Java Monte Carlo simulator for Secondary Electrons) and applied to a simple photomask metal on glass geometry. These

Nanoscale Imaging of Photocurrent and Efficiency in CdTe Solar Cells

October 15, 2014
Author(s)
Leite Marina, maxim abashin, Henri Lezec, anthony gianfrancesco, Alec Talin, Nikolai Zhitenev
The local collection characteristics of grain interiors and grain boundaries in thin film CdTe polycrystalline solar cells are investigated using scanning photocurrent microscopy. The carriers are locally generated by light injected through a small

Absolute pulse energy measurements of soft x-rays at the Linac Coherent Light Source

August 25, 2014
Author(s)
Uwe Arp, Alexander Sorokin, Ulf Jastrow, Pavle Jurani?, Svea Kreis, Mathias Richter, Yiping Feng, Dennis Nordlund, Kai Tiedtke, Philip Heimann, Bob Nagler, Hae Ja Lee, Stephanie Mack, Marco Cammarata, Oleg Krupin, Marc Messerschmidt, Michael Holmes , Michael Rowen, William Schlotter, Stefan Moeller, Joshua Turner
This paper reports novel measurements of x-ray optical radiation on an absolute scale from a recently developed source of radiation generated in the soft x-ray regime of a free electron laser. We give a brief description of the physics behind the

Interface scattering in polycrystalline thermoelectrics

March 24, 2014
Author(s)
Adrian Popescu, Paul M. Haney
We study the effect of electron and phonon interface scattering on the thermoelectric properties of disordered, polycrystalline materials (with grain sizes larger than electron and phonons' mean free path). Interface scattering of electrons is treated with
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