A nanoscale piezoelectric transformer for low-voltage transistors

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 6253-6268

  Agarwal, Sapan ^a   Yablonovitch, Eli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

field effect transistor; low voltage; Piezoelectric; subthreshold swing; transformer

Indexed keywords

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; TRANSISTORS;

CONVENTIONAL TRANSISTORS; HIGHER OUTPUT VOLTAGES; LOW VOLTAGES; LOW-VOLTAGE TRANSISTORS; PIEZOELECTRIC; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; SUBTHRESHOLD SWING; TRANSFORMER;

PIEZOELECTRICITY;

EID: 84910109783     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl502578q     Document Type: Article

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