The Symposium on Schottky Barrier MOS (SBBMOS) covers every year the most relevant and exciting advancements in the field of Schottky Barrier based devices and their applications.
For its 8th edition, this year the Symposium was held at the University of Surrey, in Guildford (UK), between the 18th and he 19th of September, and focused on the application of Schottky Barrier Transistors to neuromorphic computing.
Being the RFET, a Schottky barrier based device, placed at the foundation of our project, the presence of SENSOTERIC to this event was of fundamental importance. For this reason, we were extremely happy to bring in such a high-level event three contributions.
In the first day of the Symposium, our project coordinator, Dr. Jens Trommer from NaMLab, gave an invited talk titled “Reconfigurable Transistors for Industrial FDSOI Platforms – About Integration and Modelling”. In his talk, Jens covered two main first results: first of all, he discussed how to build these emerging transistors on the industrial 22 nm FDSOI platform offered by GlobalFoundries. After that, he presented a novel machine learning based approach to produce compact models of emerging devices.
On the same day, Yuxuan He, also from NaMLab, presented the work that she is carrying out during her Ph.D. in the talk titled “Electrical Characterization and Simulation of Two-gate FDSOI RFETs”. She dived deeper into the electrical characterization of these emerging devices showcasing how the back-bias can be utilized to increase the transistor performances.
On day two, Prof. Walter Weber, from TU Vienna, shared the work of his research group in the invited talk titled “A Si/Ge FDSOI Research Platform for the Development of Emerging Device Functionalities”. He covered the integration of new channel materials such as Ge with sublimed Al-contacts to demonstrate a variety of device and circuit functionalities, including non-volatile-memory (NVM) and negative differential resistance (NDR), this last one being one of the key features explored in SENSOTERIC.
It was really great having the chance to show our progress to such an expert audience, meet up with old friends and build new connections.
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