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Total ionizing dose (TID) irradiation and low-frequency noise characterization are performed on carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNTFETs). Large hysteresis due to high border-trap densities is observed in as-processed and irradiated devices. TID irradiation also leads to significant radiation-induced charge trapping in the surrounding dielectrics resulting in parametric degradation. Perco...Show More
Efficient transformer cooling is an important factor in increasing the lifetime of transformer and reducing the associated maintenance costs. It has been reported that the lifetime of the transformer is increased by 10% with 1 °C decrease in the core temperature. The transformer oil which is a typically a mineral oil, used commonly in cooling of transformers has an inherent disadvantage of low the...Show More
Gallium nitride (GaN) has attracted great attention as a structural material for advanced microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), thanks to its excellent ensemble of electrical and mechanical properties. Here, we report on studying the effects of ion radiation-induced displacement damage on resonant MEMS made of GaN film grown on aluminum nitride (AlN) buffer layer. We design and fabricate GaN/AlN ...Show More
The piezoelectric properties of GaN enable it to sense mechanical strain. Effects of mechanical strain on device electrical response have been investigated in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs irradiated with ~10-keV X-rays. Radiation-induced charge trapping in these GaN-based HEMTs is attributed to fast-annealing donor-like defects, which are most likely ON impurities. Similar defects lead to threshold-voltage shi...Show More
Dielectric oils serve as the primary means of cooling in electric power utility operations. However, beyond the recent advancements in improving the electrically insulating properties, relatively little has been done to optimize the thermal properties of these fluids for their application. Nanoparticle-based fluid suspensions show interesting potential for innovation in enhancing the cooling abili...Show More
We present electrical measurements of gallium nitride/Aluminum nitride (GaN/AlN) microelectromechanical system (MEMS) beams under the combined influence of strain and X-ray radiation. These results are used to understand the mechanism for the observed piezoresistive gauge factor in GaN devices. Exposure with X-ray radiation decreases the electrical resistance while strongly suppressing the gauge f...Show More
Due to the inherently poor thermal conductivity of conventional heat transfer fluids such as water, ethylene glycol, mineral oils and their mixtures, they are substantially compromised in thermal management applications. In this paper, particulate deaggregated and functionalized nanodiamond (“detonation” nanodiamond), fND, is examined as a low concentration additive to traditional heat transfer fl...Show More
Lighter doping, pretreatment (exposure to hydrogen in a steam bath), and lower dose rate are each found to exacerbate 10-keV X-ray-induced negative frequency shifts and increase in resistivity measured in T-shaped, asymmetric, piezoresistive, micromachined, and resonating cantilevers. All devices recover to levels close to preirradiation after several hours of postirradiation annealing. The effect...Show More
Total-ionizing-dose-induced resonance frequency shifts in piezoresistive micromachined cantilevers are experimentally shown to be dose-rate dependent. Devices were irradiated to 1 Mrad(SiO2) at rates from 5.4 to 30.3 krad(SiO2)/min, with lower rate exposures producing up to four-times more negative frequency shifts than higher rate exposures. Devices that were hydrogenated in a steam bath for 1 h ...Show More
The response of silicon-based microelectromechanical systems resonators to proton irradiation is determined by the combined effects of displacement damage and total ionizing dose (TID). Displacement damage (DD) can lead to carrier removal, which tends to decrease the carrier concentration, and TID leads to dopant activation and/or surface charging effects, which tend to increase the carrier concen...Show More
We evaluate the response of T-shaped, asymmetric, piezoresistive, micromachined cantilevers fabricated on p-type Si to 10-keV X-ray irradiation. The resonant frequency decreases by 25 ppm at 2.1 Mrad(SiO2), and partially recovers during post-irradiation annealing. An explanation of the results is proposed that is based on radiation-induced acceptor depassivation. This occurs because radiation-gene...Show More
Advanced chemical vapor deposition (CVD) nanodiamond films are being explored as a new dielectric for high voltage, high energy density capacitors, capable of operating at temperatures greater than 200 °C. CVD diamond is considered to be a superior dielectric material for advanced capacitor technology, based on its extraordinary electrical and mechanical characteristics. Specifically, diamond has ...Show More
The development of a novel vacuum differential amplifier (diff-amp) array employing vertically configured nanodiamond (ND) vacuum field emission transistors (ND-VFETs) on a single chip is presented. The diff-amp array is composed of a common ND emitter array integrated with partition gates and split anodes. An identical pair of ND-VFETs with well-matched field emission transistor characteristics w...Show More
Biosensors for detecting/measuring/monitoring the concentration of neurotransmitters that vary at sub-second time-scale can be achieved by using an electrode with high temporal resolution and fast electron transfer kinetics. Neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, undergo rapid fluctuations in concentrations occurring at a sub-second time scale. Real-time monitoring and measurement of these concentra...Show More
This paper presents the triode behavior of a gated nanodiamond vacuum field emitter array and its application in signal amplification. The triode feature is demonstrated with the observation of gate modulation on the emission current induced by the anode field. The emission characteristics are studied by considering the resultant electrical field on emitters, confirming the gate modulation effect....Show More
This paper reports the development of an integrated vacuum field emission transistor differential amplifier (diff-amp) utilizing nanodiamond emitters. The device was fabricated by a dual-mask self-aligned mold transfer technique using standard silicon microfabrication technique in conjunction with chemical vapor deposited nanodiamond. The emission current of the transistor pair was validated by th...Show More
The superb material properties of nanocrystalline diamond (nanodiamond) materials coupled with practical chemical vapor deposition (CVD) processing of deposited nitrogen-incorporated nanodiamond on variety of substrates, have promoted further interest in the use of these diamond-derived materials as electron field emitters. Experimentally, nanodiamond emitters have been observed to emit electrons ...Show More
A vertically configured nanodiamond vacuum field emission transistor (VFET) is developed. The device is fabricated on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, using the active silicon layer patterned with inverted pyramidal mold for nanodiamond deposition and as the self-aligned gate of the final VFET construct. Gate modulation of the emission current is observed with a relatively low gate turn-on ...Show More
We report new results from field emission microscopy studies of multi-wall carbon nanotubes and from energy-spectrum measurements of beams from diamond field emitters. In both systems, we find that resonant tunneling through adsorbed species on the emitter surface is an important and sometimes dominant effect. For diamond emitters our observations include order of magnitude emission enhancement wi...Show More
This paper describes the influence of ballast resistor and field screening on the electron field emission behavior of nano-diamond emitter arrays fabricated on micropatterned silicon pillars. Arrays of 50 × 50 silicon pillars with different ballast resistances, pillar separations, capped with nano-diamond, have been fabricated on different silicon substrates as cathode for field emission testing. ...Show More
The construct and modeled performance of a bi-layer cantilever beam type device which can serve as a dosimeter for very high neutron fluence environments such as nuclear or fusion applications is described. A layer of material such as molybdenum is fabricated integral to a microelectronics scaled CVD diamond cantilever beam such that, as it is irradiated, the layer swells in a predictable manner d...Show More
A thin-film nanodiamond macro-electrode and a microelectrode array (MEA) with SiO2 film as the insulator, both on a highly doped silicon substrate were fabricated for biosensing applications. Fe(CN)3-/4- 6 redox couple is used for electrochemical characterization of the MEA using cyclic voltammetry, which gives a sigmoidal response consistent with hemispherical diffusion limited mass transport mec...Show More
In this work, nanocarbon-derived vacuum electronic devices, viz., the nanodiamond lateral triodes and transistors and the CNT integrated differential amplifiers are examined. The material properties, device structure and fabrication process, and the electrical performance of these devices are presented.Show More
CVD nano-diamond structures are interesting electron emitters because of their superior electronic properties and tolerance to operate at much higher temperatures and harsh environments. Other advantages of nano-diamond as emitters include chemical and electrical stability, high breakdown voltage, low turn-on electric field and excellent thermal conductivity. In this paper, the authors report the ...Show More