{"title":"Special Issue on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFTS 2023) in the IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability","authors":"Luca Cassano;Mihalis Psarakis","doi":"10.1109/TDMR.2025.3544351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TDMR.2025.3544351","url":null,"abstract":"The ten articles in this special issue present innovative research in the field of defect and fault tolerance in VLSI and nanotechnology systems and provide readers with valuable insights into the latest advances and future trends in these challenging research areas. The focus of these articles is on the reliability in the design, technology and testing of electronic devices and systems, integrated circuits, printed modules, as well as methodologies and tools used for reliability and security prediction, verification and design validation.","PeriodicalId":448,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability","volume":"25 1","pages":"2-3"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10934089","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143667459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability Publication Information","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/TDMR.2025.3549656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TDMR.2025.3549656","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":448,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability","volume":"25 1","pages":"C2-C2"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10934086","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143667227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"VCMA Gradient-Driven Skyrmion on a Trapezoidal Nanotrack for Racetrack Memory Application","authors":"Bikash Sharma;Pema Rinzing Bhutia;Ravish Kumar Raj;Bibek Chettri;Brajesh Kumar Kaushik;Sonal Shreya","doi":"10.1109/OJNANO.2025.3550173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OJNANO.2025.3550173","url":null,"abstract":"Magnetic skyrmion has great potential as information carriers in next-generation logic, neuromorphic computing, and memory devices because of its topological stability, incredibly compact size, and low current consumption required to operate it. In this work, the computational demonstration of a skyrmion controlled by a voltage controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) gradient on a trapezoidal nanotrack is studied for the application of racetrack memory. The trapezoidal nanotrack aids in guiding the skyrmion's motion under the anisotropy gradient by leveraging the edge repulsion force. By utilizing a defect, the proposed device ensures a continuous flow of binary bits ‘0’ and ‘1’ without any accumulation on the racetrack. The higher angle (<italic>θ<sub>high</sub></i>) and higher anisotropy gradient (<italic>ΔK<sub>u</sub><sub>-high</sub></i>) of the trapezoidal nanotrack accelerates the skyrmion owing to higher edge repulsion force and energy gradient force. The maximum speed of 1.27 m/s was achieved by the skyrmion, and the minimum time taken for the skyrmion to reach the detector from the nucleation point was 2.16 ns. The energy used to maintain the electric field is 4.58<italic>fJ</i> per bit operation. This presents a novel approach to manipulate skyrmions under anisotropy gradient (<italic>ΔK<sub>u</sub></i>) on the trapezoidal nanotrack, paving the way for the development of improved skyrmion racetrack memory (sk-RM).","PeriodicalId":446,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Open Journal of Nanotechnology","volume":"6 ","pages":"44-50"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10934757","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143761352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploration of the exciting world of multifunctional oxide-based electronic devices: from material to system-level applications","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/TDMR.2025.3551112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TDMR.2025.3551112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":448,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability","volume":"25 1","pages":"177-178"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10934109","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143654925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wide Band Gap Semiconductors for Automotive Applications","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/TDMR.2025.3551111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TDMR.2025.3551111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":448,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability","volume":"25 1","pages":"175-176"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10934110","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143655005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of SRAM in 3-Dimensional Stacked FET With Direct Backside Contact Beyond 1Nm Node","authors":"Mingyu Kim;Ilho Myeong;Jaehyun Park;Sungil Park;Deukho Yeon;Daewon Ha;Hyungcheol Shin","doi":"10.1109/TNANO.2025.3552308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TNANO.2025.3552308","url":null,"abstract":"Among the various Backside Interconnections (BSI) methods, Direct Backside Contact (DBC) is essential in minimizing the area of logic standard cells and SRAM bitcells with 3-dimensional Stacked FETs (3DSFET) beyond the 1 nm node. Additionally, from an SRAM design perspective, the DBC structure offers the advantage of allowing the use of NMOS for the Pass-Gate (PG) transistor, as was done previously. In this study, we demonstrated SRAM transistors operation by adopting the highly promising 3DSFET with DBC structure. And we validated the SRAM bitcell operation through TCAD simulation by applying hardware verification of the SRAM transistor. As a result, we can propose an innovative structure that is compatible with both logic transistor performance and SRAM bitcell configuration beyond 1 nm node.","PeriodicalId":449,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology","volume":"24 ","pages":"201-204"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143808878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial Announcing 2024 TPS Best Paper Award","authors":"Edl Schamiloglu","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2025.3544352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2025.3544352","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"53 3","pages":"362-363"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10931864","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143645292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Realization of Compact High-Performance EAM Based on Numerical Analysis of ITO, VO2 and Graphene on SiO2 Platform","authors":"Himanshu R. Das;Haraprasad Mondal;Rajeev Kumar","doi":"10.1109/TNANO.2025.3552525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TNANO.2025.3552525","url":null,"abstract":"Plasmonic based electro-absorption modulators (EAMs) has paved the way for high-speed photonic integrated circuits (PICs). This paper demonstrates the numerical analysis and the structural design of the EAM using various plasmonic materials, such as vanadium dioxide (VO<sub>2</sub>), indium-tin-oxide (ITO) and graphene, to modulate signals traveling through the waveguide on an SiO<sub>2</sub> platform. It also explores key performance metrics, including the extinction ratio (ER) and the figure-of-merit (FOM), which is related to the device's insertion loss (IL). By optimizing the structural parameters and utilizing the plasmonic materials, the device characteristics, especially the effective-mode-index (EMI), is modified to attain the epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) condition. The ITO-based EAM attains a high ER of 22.24 dB/μm with a FOM of 482.45, while the graphene-ITO based EAM obtains an ER of 20.31 dB/μm and a FOM of 296.06 at 1.55 μm wavelength. Both devices have an energy consumption per bit (E<sub>bit</sub>) below 2.20 fJ/bit and modulation frequency (<inline-formula><tex-math>$f$</tex-math></inline-formula>) exceeding 1300 GHz at an IL <inline-formula><tex-math>$< $</tex-math></inline-formula> 0.07 dB/μm. The investigated EAMs hold potential for future-generation PICs.","PeriodicalId":449,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology","volume":"24 ","pages":"178-188"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143792868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yijun Cui;Jiang Li;Chongyan Gu;Chenghua Wang;Weiqiang Liu
{"title":"A Multi-Mode Configurable Physical Unclonable Function Based on RRAM With Adjustable Programmable Voltage","authors":"Yijun Cui;Jiang Li;Chongyan Gu;Chenghua Wang;Weiqiang Liu","doi":"10.1109/TNANO.2025.3552433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TNANO.2025.3552433","url":null,"abstract":"Resistive random access memory (RRAM) presents a promising solution for energy-efficient logic-in-memory (LiM) systems. This paper introduces a Multi-mode Configurable Physical Unclonable Function (MC-PUF) tailored for secure RRAM-based LiM applications, utilizing a conventional one-transistor-one-RRAM (1T1R) array. The MC-PUF operates in multiple modes by modifying the programming voltages of the RRAM, which captures the distinct variations of each RRAM under varying conditions. In weak write mode, the MC-PUF exploits the inherent variations of RRAM by setting the programming voltages to achieve a 50% switching probability, thereby randomly assigning ‘0’ or ‘1’ states. In parallel competition mode, it generates responses by selecting two parallel RRAMs, with one remaining in a high resistance state (HRS) and the other switching to a low resistance state (LRS). This configuration allows the MC-PUF to generate more challenge-response pairs (CRPs) compared to conventional designs, thus enhancing security through increased entropy. The design was validated through simulations using a compact Spice model and the UMC 55 nm CMOS library, as well as on an experimental hardware platform with commercial RRAM chips. Results from both simulations and hardware implementations indicate that the proposed MC-PUF exhibits high reliability, excellent uniqueness, and superior configurability.","PeriodicalId":449,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology","volume":"24 ","pages":"166-177"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143769549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Announcing the Twentieth Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science on High-Power Microwave Generation, June 2026","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2025.3547679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2025.3547679","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"53 3","pages":"476-476"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10932649","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143645161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}