Device Group News

October 2007 A research project led by Chenming Hu with Tsu-Jae King-Liu, Eli Yablonovitch, and Ali Javey has been approved by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) for $7.5M funding over five years. The project goal is to reduce IC power consumption by 10 times with a new transistor that can be manufactured with CMOS technology but is based on a different physical principal of operation.

July 2007 Graduate student Donovan Lee has been awarded the Best Student Paper Award for his paper entitled “WetFET - A Novel Fluidic Gate-Dielectric Transistor for Sensor Applications” at the 2007 International Symposium on VLSI Technology, Systems and Applications (VLSI-TSA) held in Hsin Chu, Taiwan.  Coauthors are EECS student Xin Sun and professors Tsu-Jae King Liu and Roger T. Howe.

June 2007 Graduate student Mohan Dunga has been awarded the Best Student Paper Award for his paper entitled “A Versatile Multi-gate MOSFET Compact Model for Mixed-mode Circuit Simulation” at the 2007 International Symposium on VLSI Technology held in Kyoto, Japan.  Coauthors are EECS students Chung-Hsun Lin and Darsen Lu.  Their advisors are Prof. Chenming Hu  and  Prof. Ali Niknejad.  Together with IEDM, this symposium is one of the two top conferences in the field.

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