IEDM 2024

IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) is the world’s preeminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of semiconductor and electronic device technology, design, manufacturing, physics, and modeling. 

Duy Nguyen presented a talk titled "Sub-60mV/dec Swing and Drive Current in Dirac-Source FETs: a Design Study based on First-Principle Transport Simulations" at the IEDM conference, focused on the simulation of cold-source transistors, which leverage the  intrinsically cold carrier distribution of graphene to overcome the Boltzmann limit of confentional FETs. The results obtained by the NanoElectronic Devices and Circuit group of the University of Udine, are based on a  modelling framework consisting of NEGF-based ab-initio simulations to investigate the operation and design of Dirac-Source FETs (DSFETs). This work  addresses and elucidates several physical and design aspects of DSFETs, including the rethermalization effects due to phonon scattering.