We have highlighted an underlying physical concept behind the BTBT process that has been mostly overlooked in literature. It has been shown that ignoring the dual nature of electrons and holes during the BTBT phenomenon can not only lead to substantially erroneous results but also to misleading...
Research Areas
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Applications of carbon nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes, graphene nanoribbons etc) in electronics, energy harvesting and storage, astronautics, bio/medicine --- modeling, design, and nanofabrication -
Energy-efficient IC design, energy storage and harvesting --- materials, devices (sub-kT/q devices, NEMS, solar cells, thermoelectric devices etc), circuits (ultra low-power and low-voltage design), and architecture -
Emerging issues in CMOS technologies, non-classical CMOS devices (FinFET, Nanowire-FET etc), quantum and molecular devices, 3-D ICs and More-than-Moore technologies, device-circuit-system co-design and optimization -
Interconnect system design and optimization; ultra high-frequency modeling and parasitic extraction techniques for VLSI interconnects and on-chip passive elements; interconnect issues in multicore, network-on-chip, and 3D ICs; exploration of emerging interconnect technologies -
Thermal modeling, analysis, and optimization in VLSI---from atoms to heat sinks; thermal transport in mesoscopic systems; coupled electromagnetic and thermal effects in emerging nanoelectronics -
Circuit design and design automation techniques under increasing variability and leakage; aging resilient IC design; variability and reliability issues in nanoscale CMOS and emerging technologies