Flexible silicon nanowire low-power ring oscillator featuring one-volt operation

Yoonjoong Kim; Youngin Jeon; Sangsig Kim

doi:10.1016/j.mee.2015.04.003

Flexible silicon nanowire low-power ring oscillator featuring one-volt operation

Yoonjoong Kim
, Youngin Jeon
, Sangsig Kim^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this study, we propose a flexible silicon nanowire (SiNW) low-power ring oscillator, which features 1-V operation. Our flexible ring oscillator is composed of three CMOS inverters with a gain of 70 at a supply voltage of 1 V. p- and n-channel SiNW field-effect transistors (FETs) forming the component inverters exhibit on/off current ratios of 4.36 × 10⁴ and 1.46 × 10⁵, respectively. Our ring oscillator generates a sinusoidal wave with a frequency of ∼6.6 MHz. The frequency and waveform are undistorted under upwardly bent and downwardly bent strain conditions of 0.7%. The good mechanical bendability of the flexible ring oscillator indicates high stability and good fatigue properties.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	120-123
Number of pages	4
Journal	Microelectronic Engineering
Volume	145
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mee.2015.04.003
Publication status	Published - 2015 Sept 1

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Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the Mid-career Researcher Program (NRF-2013R1A2A1A03070750) through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the KSSRC program (Development of printable integrated circuits based on inorganic semiconductor nanowires).

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Keywords

Flexible
Low-power
Ring oscillator
Silicon-nanowire

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Condensed Matter Physics
Surfaces, Coatings and Films
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Flexible silicon nanowire low-power ring oscillator featuring one-volt operation

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