Research
Thrusts
.....Nanostructures
.....Biomimetics
.....Bio-Nano
Chih-Tang Sah - The research undertaken at the Florida Solid-State Electronics Laboratory focuses on the application of semiconductor material and device physics for delineating the fundamental limits of future submicron silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor and bipolar-junction transistors (MOSTs and BJTs) for multi-million-transistor digital and analog integrated circuits. Projects supported by industry include developing accelerated methodology to predict in less than 100 hours, the 10 year operation time-to-failure of deep-submicron Si MOSTs, Si BJTs and GeSi BJTs. Additional projects concern the effect of hydrogen on transistor characteristics, compact computer-aided-design transistor model development, and semiconductor physical-chemical-biological sensors. Graduate and undergraduate participants receive hands-on direction by the two senior faculty members with more than 60 years of fundamental and manufacturing research experiences.