Scaling Opportunities for Bulk Accumulation and Inversion MOSFETs for Gigascale Integration

To my parents iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am deeply grateful to my advisor, Dr. Meindl, for his guidance, motivation, and inspiration. I thank my committee members Dr. for many motivating and spirited discussions. I thank former GSI group members Azeez Bhavnagarwala, Keith Bowman, and Ragu Venkatesan, for many inspiring discussions. I thank Blanca Austin for helping me ramp up on my research by providing me the code for all her models, and for proofreading many of my publications. I thank Mike Dennen, Bill Richards, and Drew Vinal of Thunderbird Technologies for providing critical comments on many parts of my work. I deeply appreciate the help of the GSI group program manager, Jennifer Tatham (aka " GSI Mom "), for her constant support and encouragement. I thank my parents for their never ending love and support.