[Illinois] How to Break the "Fundamental" Limits of Nanobiosensing
Online Presentations | 07 Apr 2014 | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam
As the future of Moore’s law of transistor scaling appears uncertain, electronics is being reinvented by broadening the focus to other areas including macroelectronics (electronics of large, possibly flexible and transparent displays), bioelectronics (e.g., nanobio sensors for genomics,...
Universality of NBTI-Induced Interface Trap Generation and Its Impact on ID Degradation in Strained/ Unstrained PMOS Transistors
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Online Presentations | 23 Dec 2008 | Contributor(s): Ahmad Ehteshamul Islam, Muhammad A. Alam
Despite extensive use of strained technology, it is still unclear whether NBTI-induced NIT generation in strained transistors is substantially different from that of unstrained ones. Here, we present a comprehensive theory for NIT generation in strained/unstrained transistors and show its...
Tutorial Lecture: Potentiometric Sensors Ion Selective Sensors - An Introduction
Online Presentations | 05 Jun 2019 | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam
Too hot to handle? The emerging challenge of reliability/variability in self-heated FintFET, ETSOI, and GAA-FET
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Presentation Materials | 11 Jan 2016 | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam, Sang Hoon Shin, Muhammad Abdul Wahab, Jiangjiang Gu, Jingyun Zhang, Peide "Peter" Ye
This presentation is part of the 8th IEEE/ACM Workshop on Variability Modeling and Characterization (VMC) 2015. It is difficult to control the geometry, doping, and thicknesses of small transistors. Moreover, nanoscale transistors degrade due to NBTI and HCI at vastly different...
Time-dependent gate oxide breakdown Lab
Tools | 04 Mar 2014 | Contributor(s): Xin Jin, Muhammad Masuduzzaman, Sang Hoon Shin, Sambit Palit, Muhammad A. Alam
Simulate Time-dependent gate oxide breakdown
The Transistor at 75
Series | 01 Feb 2023 | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom, Michael J. Manfra, Muhammad A. Alam, Ekaterina Babintseva
Purdue celebrates the 75th anniversary of the invention of the transistor.
The Long and Short of Pick-up Stick Transistors: A Promising Technology for Nano- and Macro-Electronics
Online Presentations | 11 Apr 2006 | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam
In recent years, there has been enormous interest in the emerging field of large-area macro-electronics, and fabricating thin-film transistors on flexible substrates. This talk will cover recent work in developing a comprehensive theoretical framework to describe the performance of these "pick-up...
Suns-Vmp Method
Downloads | 04 Jun 2018 | Contributor(s): Xingshu Sun, Raghu Vamsi Krishna Chavali, Muhammad A. Alam
This package contains the Matlab scripts to perform the Suns-Vmp method. The code has been tested in Matlab R2016a.
Solar Cell Fundamentals
Courses | 19 Aug 2011 | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom, J. L. Gray, Muhammad A. Alam
A new version of the course has been posted here. The modern solar cell was invented at Bell Labs in 1954 and is currently receiving renewed attention as a potential contribution to addressing the world's energy challenge. This set of five tutorials is an introduction to solar...
Sequencing a Genome by a Torrent of Ions: How an Old pH-Meter Got Its Groove Back
Online Presentations | 11 Apr 2014 | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam
The ability to read the book of life, written in the genome of an organism, has been one of the most exciting development of our time. The first version of human genome was announced circa 2000 and it took a decade of industrial-scale collaboration and billions of dollars of funding. Today, we do...
Reliability Physics of Nanoscale Transistors
Courses | 27 Nov 2007 | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam
This course is now offered on nanoHUB as ECE 695A Reliability Physics of Nanotransistors.
PVpanel Sim
Tools | 09 Oct 2011 | Contributor(s): Mario Renteria, Elliott Ivan Gurrola, Birkir Snær Sigfússon, Suhas Venkat Baddela, Sourabh Dongaonkar, Xingshu Sun, Muhammad Alam
Two dimensional spice simulation of thin film solar panels, including shunt induced variability, and partial shadow effects.
PVLimits: PV thermodynamic limit calculator
Tools | 21 Mar 2016 | Contributor(s): Mohammad Ryyan Khan, Xin Jin, Muhammad A. Alam
The tool is designed to calculate the thermodynamic performance limit of single-junction and multi-junction solar cells.
PV Analyzer
Tools | 28 Mar 2011 | Contributor(s): Sourabh Dongaonkar, Muhammad Alam
Extract compact model parameters from solar cell data
Purdue University Meteorological Tool
Tools | 24 Oct 2017 | Contributor(s): Binglin Zhao, Xingshu Sun, Mohammad Ryyan Khan, Muhammad A. Alam
Provide meteorological data from national databases.
Purdue University Bifacial Module Calculator (PUB)
Tools | 30 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Binglin Zhao, Xingshu Sun, Mohammad Ryyan Khan, Muhammad A. Alam
A tool to simulate and optimize the energy yield of both bifacial and monofacial solar modules
Purdue Microelectronics and Nanotechnology Overview
Online Presentations | 07 Sep 2021 | Contributor(s): Samantha Nelson, Muhammad A. Alam, Joerg Appenzeller, Zhihong Chen, Supriyo Datta, David Janes, Gerhard Klimeck, Dana Weinstein, Pramey Upadhyaya, Peide "Peter" Ye
In today’s modern world, microelectronics has touched every aspect of our lives. None of us can imagine or live in a world without personal computers, smart phones, and probably very soon autonomous cars. To continue its expansion and go beyond the traditional semiconductor technologies,...
PUMP: A tool of global meteorological data for optimizing
Presentation Materials | 27 Jul 2017 | Contributor(s): Binglin Zhao, Xingshu Sun, Muhammad A. Alam
We have build a PUMP can facilitate the development and optimization of solar farms globally by providing quick access to various meteorological database. Solar energy is one of the top runners among the renewable energy. The design and...
Percolation Theory
Courses | 03 Nov 2008 | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam
The electronic devices these days have become so small that the number of dopant atoms in the channel of a MOFET transistor, the number of oxide atoms in its gate dielectric, the number silicon- or metal crystals in nanocrystal Flash memory, the number of Nanowires in a flexible nanoNET...
Padre
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Tools | 12 Jan 2006 | Contributor(s): Mark R. Pinto, kent smith, Muhammad A. Alam, Steven Clark, Xufeng Wang, Gerhard Klimeck, Dragica Vasileska
2D/3D devices under steady state, transient conditions or AC small-signal analysis
OPV: Untangling the Essence of Bulk Heterostructure Organic Solar Cells: Why the Complex Need not be Complicated
Online Presentations | 21 Jan 2011 | Contributor(s): Muhammad Alam
This presentation was part of the "Organic Photovoltaics: Experiment and Theory" workshop at the 2010 Users' Meeting of the Molecular Foundry and the National Center for Electron Microscopy, both DOE-funded Research Centers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
OPV Lab
Tools | 28 Sep 2011 | Contributor(s): Biswajit ray, Camila Andrea González Williamson, Mohammad Ryyan Khan, Muhammad Alam
Simulation tool for organic solar cells
Optimum Morphology and Performance Gains of Organic Solar Cells
Online Presentations | 20 Aug 2011 | Contributor(s): Biswajit ray, Muhammad Alam
Morphology of light absorbing layer is known to dictate the power conversion efficiency of organic photovoltaic (OPV) cell. The innovation of bulk heterojunction (BHJ) led to significant improvement for exciton harvesting, but carrier recombination at the distributed interfaces and variability of...
Only Physics can save Machine Learning!
Online Presentations | 07 Oct 2020 | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam
On the Resolution of Ultra-fast NBTI Measurements and Reaction-Diffusion Theory
Online Presentations | 16 Dec 2009 | Contributor(s): Ahmad Ehteshamul Islam, Souvik Mahapatra, Muhammad A. Alam
Reaction-Diffusion (R-D) theory, well-known to successfully explain most features of NBTI stress, is perceived to fail in explaining NBTI recovery. Several efforts have been made to understand differences between NBTI relaxation measured using ultra-fast methods and that predicted by R-D theory....