{"title":"Observation of the Domain Morphology of Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-xPbTiO3 Single Crystals","authors":"Haotian Wan, Y. Yamashita, Xiaoning Jiang","doi":"10.1109/NMDC50713.2021.9677513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NMDC50713.2021.9677513","url":null,"abstract":"Relaxor-PbTiO3 Single crystals including Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-xPbTiO3 (PMN-xPT) have been widely used and extensively studied in the last two decades due to their ultrahigh piezoelectric properties for acoustic devices. However, the piezoelectric properties of PMN-xPT single crystals are highly dependent on the PT contents. In this work, the domain morphologies of PMN-xPT with different PT compositions (x = 0.26 and 0.28, rhombohedral phase) after direct current poling (DCP) were observed by piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM). The domain morphologies and the domain wall densities were compared to study the influences of the PT compositions on the piezoelectric properties of PMN-xPT. The PFM images showed that after DCP, PMN-xPT single crystals of two different compositions all had the domain morphologies with ‘4R’ configuration in which both 109° and 71° domain walls could be clearly identified. Compared with PMN-0.26PT, PMN-0.28PT single crystals had similar 109° domain wall densities (Domain width: 1012 nm vs 1025 nm) but higher 71° domain wall densities (Domain width: 426 nm vs 645 nm). The higher piezoelectric properties of PMN-xPT single crystals were found to correlate with the higher 71° domain wall densities.","PeriodicalId":6742,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 16th Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC)","volume":"59 1 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88442865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Hazzazi, A. Young, C. O’Loughlin, O. Kizilkaya, T. Daniels‐Race
{"title":"Characterization of Electrophoretically Deposited Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles on Silicon with Fabrication of a P-N Junction","authors":"F. Hazzazi, A. Young, C. O’Loughlin, O. Kizilkaya, T. Daniels‐Race","doi":"10.1109/nmdc50713.2021.9677485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/nmdc50713.2021.9677485","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":6742,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 16th Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC)","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83326025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Theoretical Study on Porous-Silicon Based Synapse Design for Neural Hardware","authors":"Orthi Sikder, Peter Schubert","doi":"10.1109/NMDC50713.2021.9677557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NMDC50713.2021.9677557","url":null,"abstract":"Porous silicon (po-Si) is a form of silicon (Si) with nanopores of tunable sizes and shapes distributed over the bulk structure. Although crystalline Si (c-Si) is already established as one of the most advantageous and promising elements for its technological significance, the additional key aspect of po-Si is its large surface area with respect to its small volume which is beneficial for surface chemistry. In this work, we explore the design of a po-Si based synaptic device and investigate its potential for neuromorphic hardware. First, we analyze several electrical properties of po-Si through density functional theory (Ab Initio/ first principle) calculation. We show that the presence of intra-pore dangling states appears within the bandgap region of po-Si. While the bandgap of the po-Si is well known to be higher than c-Si yielding low carrier density and higher resistance, the appearance of these dangling states can significantly participate in electronic transport through hopping mechanism. Then, we analyze the electric-field driven modulation in the dangling bond through controlled intra-pore Si-H bond dissociation. Such modulation of the dangling state density further allows the tenability of the po-Si conductance. Finally, we theoretically evaluate the current-voltage characteristics of our proposed po-Si based synaptic devices and determine the possible range of obtainable conductivity for different porosity. Our analysis signifies that the integration of such devices in the synaptic fabric can enable significantly denser and energy-efficient neuromorphic hardware.","PeriodicalId":6742,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 16th Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC)","volume":"67 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84051782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ultrasound and Magnetic Dual-Mode Stacked Transducer for High-Frequency Magneto-Sonothrombolysis","authors":"Bohua Zhang, Huaiyu Wu, Xiaoning Jiang","doi":"10.1109/NMDC50713.2021.9677479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NMDC50713.2021.9677479","url":null,"abstract":"Thrombosis usually occurs when a blood clot shapes within the blood vessel which may prevent the bloodstream through the body. Earlier microbubbles and tPA-mediated ultrasound thrombolysis usually had a relatively low efficacy for retracted clots owing to the limited penetration of agents into the condensed clot fibrin networks. Here we report the advancement of ultrasound and magnetic dual-mode stacked transducers, which can generate ultrasound wave and high frequency oscillating magnetic field to stimulate the superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) and microbubbles for enhanced tPA-mediated sonothrombolysis. The results showed that the combined effects of localized hyperthermia from the high-frequency oscillation of SPIONs and mechanical shock waves from ultrasound could effectively enhance the tPA-mediated sonothrombolysis efficacy.","PeriodicalId":6742,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 16th Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC)","volume":"42 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87854985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thickness-Dependent Seebeck Coefficient in Hybrid 2-Dimensional layers","authors":"T. Ghomian, N. Darwish, J. Hihath","doi":"10.1109/NMDC50713.2021.9677528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NMDC50713.2021.9677528","url":null,"abstract":"The Seebeck coefficient in a single molecule is determined by the slope of the transport probability of the charge carrier at the Fermi level, which can result in high Seebeck coefficients. However, since single molecules can only generate a limited amount of power for thermoelectric applications. Hence, larger scale systems must be developed to provide enough power for real applications. In this work, we examine the effect of the dimensionality on the Seebeck coefficient of molecule/Au nanoparticle 2D arrays with a massive number of molecular junctions within the network system. This approach increases the complexity and interactions between the components as the system size scales. In this work, we observed that the multilayer structure of 2D hybrid arrays provides higher Seebeck coefficients than monolayer structures with same molecular linkers. In particular, Oleylamine (OAM) and thiolated anthraquinone derivatives (5AQ5) are used as molecular interlinkers between gold nanoparticles in the structure. Experimental results illustrate that a four-layer structure of OAM/Au 2D array yields a ~11x improvement in the Seebeck coefficient $(mathrm{S}=38.21quad mu mathrm{V}/mathrm{K})$ over the single-layer structure $(mathrm{S}=3.36 mu mathrm{V}/mathrm{K})$, which, along with an improvement in the conductivity yields a power factor improvement of 635 times. The other set of results illustrate that a three-layer structure of anthraquinone-based norbornylogous bridge (5AQ5)/Au 2D array yields a ~26x improvement in the Seebeck coefficient $(mathrm{S}=-3254 mu mathrm{V}/mathrm{K})$ over the single-layer structure $(mathrm{S}=-127 mu mathrm{V}/mathrm{K})$, and a power factor improvement of 177 times. These findings demonstrate that it is possible to improve the thermoelectric performance of engineered nanostructures by controlling the number of layers.","PeriodicalId":6742,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 16th Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC)","volume":"45 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90159548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mirali Seyed Shariatdoust, Michael Dobinson, G. Hajisalem, R. Gordon
{"title":"Hexagonal boron nitride second harmonic generation using gold nanorods with continuous laser source","authors":"Mirali Seyed Shariatdoust, Michael Dobinson, G. Hajisalem, R. Gordon","doi":"10.1109/NMDC50713.2021.9677498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NMDC50713.2021.9677498","url":null,"abstract":"Here we demonstrate second harmonic generation in two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) using plasmonic nanorods with 10 mW continuous source pump at 973 nm. Gold nanorods with resonance at 980 nm are used to enhance the electric field intensity near hBN nanoflakes, which showed $6.5 times 10^{5}$ times enhancement in finite-difference time-domain simulations. A drop-coated mixture of hBN nanoflakes and gold nanorods showed a second harmonic signal at 486.5 nm while no second harmonic generation was seen for hBN nanoflakes or gold nanorods alone. This scheme can pave the road for ultra-fast imaging and cost-effective detection at telecommunication wavelength using silicon-based detectors.","PeriodicalId":6742,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 16th Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC)","volume":"16 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87478260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Abouali, Seied Ali Hosseini, Sanjana Srikant, M. Poudineh
{"title":"A High Yield, High Purity Microfluidic Device For Potential Application of Blood Plasma Generation","authors":"H. Abouali, Seied Ali Hosseini, Sanjana Srikant, M. Poudineh","doi":"10.1109/NMDC50713.2021.9677554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NMDC50713.2021.9677554","url":null,"abstract":"Cancer biomarkers circulating in blood can be monitored for diagnosis and prognosis of this disease. For this purpose, the whole blood from cancer patients needs to be analyzed. The microfluidic device developed in the current work has been analyzed with for plasma separation purposes with help of beads (to mimic the blood cells). These devices can be implemented in the future studies to tackle the challenge of separating the blood plasma from its other components with high efficiency and purity when working with patients' whole blood.","PeriodicalId":6742,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 16th Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89798040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling of Hysteresis in Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Solar Cells","authors":"Kumudini Ganesh, R. Padmanabhan","doi":"10.1109/NMDC50713.2021.9677521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NMDC50713.2021.9677521","url":null,"abstract":"Organometal halide perovskite-based solar cells have shown rapid improvement in their performance. One of the predominant issues that serves as a bottleneck for further improvement is the hysteresis observed in their current-voltage characteristics, as it leads to inaccurate estimation of power conversion efficiencies. While there have been many approaches to modeling hysteresis in single perovskite-based solar cells, modeling hysteresis in perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells has largely remained unexplored. We have setup simple models, using circuit-based and TCAD-based approaches, that capture hysteresis behaviour in perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells. Our simulated current-voltage characteristics using both modeling approaches, have been validated with measured characteristics from experimentally fabricated devices reported in literature.","PeriodicalId":6742,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 16th Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC)","volume":"6 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87404987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conductive Green Graphene inks for Printed Electronics","authors":"A. A. Al Shboul, Mohsen Ketabi, R. Izquierdo","doi":"10.1109/NMDC50713.2021.9677537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NMDC50713.2021.9677537","url":null,"abstract":"Aqueous graphene inks were obtained by liquid-phase exfoliation of graphite and bonded to biodegradable polymers. Consequently, green and eco-friendly graphene inks are proposed that are free of VOCs and harmful organic compounds. Three graphene inks indicated as GGe, GTr, and GTw were prepared with corresponding optimized biopolymer concentrations of 0.1 mg.mL−1 of gelatin, 1 mg.mL−1 triton X-100, and 1.5 mg.mL−1 tween-20. The flake diameter distribution for the graphene inks ranged from 100 nm to 800 nm as measured by dynamic light scattering (DLS). GTr is made of smaller flake diameters followed by GTw and GGe has the largest flakes. Graphene films were printed using aerosol jet technique with a 500 nm thickness and their sheet resistance (sR) was of $2.6 mathrm{k}Omega/square$ for GTr, $5 mathrm{k}Omega/square$ for GTw, and $14 mathrm{k}Omega/square$ for GGe. The low sheet resistance for GTr was assigned to better ink wettability and adhesion on top PET substrates. These electrical resistances are suitable for the fabrication of green chemiresistive flexible sensors.","PeriodicalId":6742,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 16th Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC)","volume":"27 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78350545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}