LSI scaling causes the reliability problem. It is important to analyze the degradation of Negative Bias Temperature Instability(NBTI) in circuit designs. Yield is affected by variations. In the near future, NBTI and variations will decrease reliability on FPGAs fabricated in a nanometer process. In this work, we show the effect of NBTI and variations on 65nm FPGAs. According to our results, cic...

We apply the concept of reflection-transmission (RT) algebra, originally developed in the context of integrable systems in 1+1 space-time dimensions, to the study of finite temperature quantum field theory with impurities in higher dimensions. We consider a scalar field in (s + 1) + 1 space-time dimensions, interacting with impurities localized on s-dimensional hyperplanes, but without self-int...

We evaluate the Casimir vacuum energy at finite temperature associated with the Maxwell field confined by a perfectly conducting rectangular cavity and show that an extended version of the temperature inversion symmetry is present in this system. PACS: 11. 10. -z; 11. 10. Wx [email protected] [email protected] 1

We review different aspects of field theory at zero and finite temperature, related to the theory of phase transitions. We discuss different renormalization conditions for the effective potential at zero temperature, emphasizing in particular the MS renormalization scheme. Finite temperature field theory is discussed in the real and imaginary time formalisms, showing their equivalence in simple...

I discuss three subjects in thermal field theory: why in SU(N) gauge theories the Z(N) symmetry is broken at high (instead of low) temperature, the possible singularity structure of gauge variant propagators, and the problem of how to compute the viscosity from the Kubo formula. Based on an invited talk presented at the Workshop on Hot QCD held at the Winnipeg Institute for Theoretical Physics,...

We discuss a few selected topics in finite temperature field theory.

Limited performance and reliability of electronic devices at extreme temperatures, intensive electromagnetic fields, and radiation found in space exploration missions (i.e., Venus &Jupiter planetary exploration, and heliophysics missions) and earth-based applications requires the development of alternative computing technologies. In the pursuit of alternative technologies, research efforts have...

due to the hard climatic conditions of the yardang region in the lut desert, not much information about land surface temperatures of this region, one of the extremely arid cli-matic zones of iran, has been extracted. therefore, in this study in order to obtain some information about important surface features of the lut desert (marl, grey sand, bright sand and salt affected land), field tempera...

The variations of the electrical conductivity with temperature and electric field of the ternary alloy of gallium, aluminium and arsenic (Al0.75Ga0.25As) with atomic compositions of 99/1 and 98/2 have been investigated. The electrical conductivity of the alloy increases with temperature according to the relation, ? = ?0 exp (??/kT). The activation energy calculated from this empirical relation ...