Electret and organic floating-gate memories are next-generation flash storage mediums for printed organic complementary circuits. While each flash memory can be easily fabricated using solution processes on flexible plastic substrates, promising their potential for on-chip memory organization is limited by unreliable bit operation and high write loads. We here report that new architecture could...

Nanometer-size Si quantum dots (Si-QDs) with and without Ge core were prepared on thermally-grown SiO2 in a self-assembling manner by controlling the early stages of low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD). The surface potential changes in individual dots caused by charging or discharging of one electron or a few as were measured by using a Kelvin probe technique in an atomic force micro...

In this paper, we propose an architecture/methodology for making FPGAs suitable for integer as well as variable precision floating point multiplication. The proposed work will of great importance in applications which requires variable precision floating point multiplication such as multi-media processing applications. In the proposed architecture/methodology, we propose the replacement of exis...

Implementation of floating point algorithms in FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) creates an open problem. One of possible solutions is the representation of floating point numbers as an integer (fixed point) logarithm (32 bit) [1]. Basic arithmetical operations can be performed in the logarithm numbering system which is suitable for FPGA and ASIC implementation. Simulator of such system has...

Design of a programmable frequency oscillator design using field programmable, analog, CMOS current conveyor has been presented; further, a design methodology to introduce on-chip /field programmability into the second generation current controlled current conveyor circuit (CCCII) is explained. To make the CCCII CMOS design programmable, a floating-gate transistor synapse is introduced to repla...

Self-powered sensing of the time-ofoccurrence of an event is challenging because it requires access to a reliable time reference or a synchronized clock. In this paper, we propose for the first time a self-powered integrated circuit that is capable of time-stamping asynchronous mechanical events of interest. At the core of the proposed design is the integration of two self-powered modules: (a) ...

Unlike electromagnetic radiation such as radio waves, infrared-visible-ultraviolet, and X-rays, static or quasi-static electric fields are rarely utilized for visualization in people's lives industries. The difficulty measuring is mainly due to low-energy photons the lack of integrable devices with high sensitivity detect them. Here, a novel field sensor based on floating extended gate organic ...

The rapid scaling of integrated circuit requires further shrinkage of lateral device dimension, which correlates with pillar thickness in vertical structure. This paper investigates the effect of pillar thickness variation on vertical double gate MOSFET (VDGM) fabricated using oblique rotating ion implantation (ORI) method. For this purpose, several scenarios of silicon pillar thickness tsi wer...

This paper reports on two new advancements in CCD technology. The first area of development has produced a special purpose CCD designed for ultra low-signal level imaging and spectroscopy applications that require subelectron read noise floors. A nondestructive output circuit operating near its 1/f noise regime is clocked in a special manner to read a single pixel multiple times. Off-chip elect...