# IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

### Early Access Articles

Early Access articles are made available in advance of the final electronic or print versions. Early Access articles are peer reviewed but may not be fully edited. They are fully citable from the moment they appear in IEEE Xplore.

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• ### Nanopore Fabrication to Two-Dimensional Materials on SiO$_{2}$ Membranes Using He Ion Microscopy

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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Structures with pores several nanometers in diameter can be used for distinguishing nucleotides in DNA. A 2D material such as a thin membrane is expected to enhance precise molecule recognition. Here, we present the nanopore fabrication to thin 2D membranes using HIM (He ion microscopy). We transferred three 2D materials of CVD (chemical vapor deposition) graphene, CVD BN, and peel-off MoS View full abstract»

• ### Atomistic tight-binding study of contact resistivity in Si/SiGe PMOS Schottky contacts

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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The metal-semiconductor contact resistivity has started to play a critical role for the overall device performance as Si is reaching 10nm size ranges. The ITRS target predicts a requirement of 1E-9 Ω.cm$^{2}$ by 2023 which has no known technical solutions today. This work explores the impact of doping concentration, Schottky barrier height, strain and SiGe mole... View full abstract»

• ### Theoretical Analysis of the First Higher-Order Mode in Grounded Graphene Nanoribbons

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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The dispersive properties of the first higher-order (EH$_{1}$) mode in uniform graphene nanoribbons over a ground plane are numerically studied to point out the characteristics of the bound-mode and leaky-mode regimes. The graphene nanoribbon is then suitably designed to operate on the EH$_{1}$ mode as a frequency-scannable leaky-wave ant... View full abstract»

• ### Tuning the optical properties of zinc sulfide (ZnS) Nanotube

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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Optical properties of zinc sulfide (ZnS) nanotube (NT) are tuned by changing its chirality and adsorbing phosphorous. It is found that Armchair (4, 4) ZnS NT results in largest absorption coefficient in ultraviolet region in comparison to zigzag and chiral ZnS NT$_{rm S}$. Zigzag (5, 0), (6, 0) and chiral (4, 2) ZnS NT$_{rm S}$ have large... View full abstract»

• ### Majority-Based Spin-CMOS Primitives for Approximate Computing

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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Promising for Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications, approximate computing has been extensively considered to trade off limited accuracy for improvements in other circuit metrics such as area, power and performance. In this paper, approximate arithmetic circuits are proposed by using emerging nanoscale spintronic devices. Leveraging the intrinsic current-mode thresholding operation of spint... View full abstract»

• ### A Flexible Nanopore Thin Film Enabled Device for Pressure Sensing and Drug Release

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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A new multifunctional flexible nanopore thin film device for both drug release and pressure sensing is reported. Different from previously reported drug release device based on the nanopore thin film fabricated on rigid substrates, this new flexible device offers two functions: it not only can serve as a drug delivery device, but also can be used as a pressure sensor as well. Specifically, the per... View full abstract»

• ### Fast and Energy Efficient CNFET Adders with CDM and Sensitivity Based Device-Circuit Co-Optimization

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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Since integrated circuits technology entered into the nanoscale regime, energy efficiency has become one of the most significant challenges. The Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor (CNFET), which consists of Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWCNTs), is one of the highly appreciated nanoscale devices for replacement, due to its similar process to the current CMOS technology. The b... View full abstract»

• ### PFM Characterization of PVDF Nanocomposite Films with Enhanced Piezoelectric Response

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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The piezoelectric properties of PVDF mainly depend on its β-phase. In this work, we investigated through Piezoresponse Force Microscopy (PFM) the piezoelectric properties of PVDF composite films when we induce the formation of β-phase crystals adding a nanofiller, like graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) or zinc-oxide nanorods (ZnO-NRs), but without applying any electrical poling. At first... View full abstract»

• ### Design of High Speed and Power Efficient Ternary Prefix Adders using CNFETs

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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Ternary logic circuits have advantage over the corresponding binary counterparts with respect to area and interconnect complexity. CNFET technology is ideal to implement ternary logic circuits because the threshold voltage of CNFETs depends on the physical dimensions of their channel. This work presents the methodology and implementation of ternary prefix adders using CNFETs. While the concept of ... View full abstract»

• ### Development and investigation on a Silver Nanoparticle-Incorporated Electrofiltration System for Biofouling Control

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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Membrane technologies have gained wide acceptance and made significant progress in water and wastewater treatment. However, biofouling, caused by microorganisms, remains to be one of the most pervasive problems that substantially impedes the system efficiency. This study developed and investigated a novel water ultrafiltration system which integrates silver nanoparticles (AgNP) and low intensity d... View full abstract»

• ### A Unified Quasi-3D Subthreshold Behavior Model for Multiple-Gate MOSFETs

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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Based on the quasi-3D potential approach, a unified subthreshold potential, threshold voltage and subthreshold current model is developed for multiple-gate (MG) MOSFETs including quadruple-gate (QG), triple-gate (TG), and omega-gate (ΩG) MOSFET. This work indicates that the scaling-length-oriented subthreshold current roll-up ΔIsub and threshold voltage roll-off ΔV View full abstract»

• ### Fabrication of a novel ZnO/NiMoO4 nanocomposite and evaluation of its visible light driven photocatalytic performance

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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A new heterojunction of ZnO/NiMoO4 was developed via a facile hydrothermal followed by calcination method at a relatively low temperature. Multiple characterization techniques such as X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), energy dispersive analysis of X-rays (EDS), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and UV-Vis diffuse reflectance s... View full abstract»

• ### A versatile mass-sensing platform with tunable nonlinear self-excited microcantilevers

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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A versatile mass-sensing platform based on the nonlinear dynamical response of a microcantilever embedded in a self-excitation feedback loop is proposed. It is experimentally shown that the delay imposed in the feedback loop by an adjustable phase-shifter can be used to finely tune this system to work in three different modalities, according to the desired mass sensing application: i) as a continu... View full abstract»

• ### Solution-processing of Copper Nanowires for Transparent Heaters and Thermo-Acoustic Loudspeakers

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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In this study, we present a copper nanowires (CuNWs) based spray deposition process for the fabrication of transparent heaters and thermo-acoustic loudspeakers. We developed a scalable and solution-based synthesis process for CuNWs, which allows to fabricate spray deposited transparent electrodes (TEs) that show performances comparable to indium tin oxide (ITO) based TEs, at much lower material an... View full abstract»

• ### VOCs monitoring using differential microwave capacitive resonant transducer and conductive PEDOT:PSS-MWCNTs nanocomposite film for environmental applications

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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This paper presents the feasibility of a low-cost fully inkjet printed capacitive microwave flexible gas sensor based on a resonant electromagnetic transducer in micro-strip technology with poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate and multi wall carbon nanotubes (PEDOT:PSS-MWCNTs) as sensitive material for Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) detection. The design and simulation result... View full abstract»

• ### Electrospun SF/PVA nanofiber filters for highly-efficient PM$_{2.5}$ capture

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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Particulate matter (PM) air pollution is associated with various adverse health effects. Heavy outdoor air pollution, especially smog, has significantly impacted the living quality of residential environments. Here, we report the fabrication of silk fibroin/polyvinyl alcohol (SF/PVA) nanofiber air filters for the filtration of PM pollution using the electrospinning technique. Silk fibroin is a typ... View full abstract»

• ### Predictive Models of Nanodevices

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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Chua's concept of nonlinear higher-order elements is generalized with the aim of extending the procedures of predictive modeling of complex electrical systems to various nonelectrical domains. Special attention is paid to nanodevices with ambiguous hysteretic characteristics and their predictive modeling via unambiguous constitutive relations. It is shown on an example of spin-torque nano-oscillat... View full abstract»

• ### A ball-impact piezoelectric converter wrapped by copper coils

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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This paper presents a composite piezoelectric and electromagnetic converter with a ball-impact structure. It is composed of a magnet ball enclosed among two piezoelectric diaphragms, which arranged in a copper coils wrapped cube. A theoretical model is proposed to simplify the motion of the ball in a cycle as three steps and to estimate output voltages. Experiments were conducted to measure output... View full abstract»

• ### Maximizing the Number of Threshold Logic Functions Using Resistive Memory

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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A new method to implement threshold logic functions using memristors is presented. This method benefits from the high range of memristor's resistivity which is used to define different weight values, and reduces significantly the transistor count. When considering an upper bound on transistor count, the proposed approach implements many more functions as threshold logic gates when comparing... View full abstract»

• ### Design of Broadband CNFET LNA Based on Extracted I-V Closed-Form Equation

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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A procedure of extracting a closed-form user-friendly I-V equation for short channel carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNFET) in the saturation region is presented by employing a relation between CNFET parameters meeting the experimental results. The methodology is based on the Stanford model and ballistic relation of one channel CNFET. In this regard, the ballistic relation is simplified ... View full abstract»

• ### On local sensing of spin Hall effect in tungsten films by using STM based measurements

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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The spin Hall effect in tungsten films has been experimentally studied by using STM-based measurements. These measurements have been performed by using tungsten and iron coated tungsten tips. In the case of tungsten tips, it has been observed that the current flow through the tungsten film results in an appreciable asymmetry in the tunneling current with respect to the change in the polarity of th... View full abstract»

• ### A review of nanoscale characterizing individual DNA behaviors using atomic force microscopy

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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DNA, the structural basis of genetic, plays a crucial role in the life of cells. The abnormal behaviors of DNA are closely related to the pathological changes of living organisms. The advent of atomic force microscopy (AFM) provides an exciting instrument for biophysically probing the nanoscale dynamic activities of individual native molecules, considerably complementing the results obtained by tr... View full abstract»

• ### Optical Features of Nanowire Forests Prepared by A Plasma Repolymerization Technique

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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In this work, nanowire forests are prepared by using a plasma repolymerization technique. The preparation process involves only a spin-coating step of polyimide and plasma bombardment of the polymer, the entire process is lithography-free, micromachining-compatible, fast and extremely simple. Moreover, the nanowire forests can further be utilized as nanomasks in reactive ion etching of silicon for... View full abstract»

• ### MEMS Resonant Mass Sensor Integrated with Optical Manipulation

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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We investigate optical manipulation of particles in fluid as a viable method to achieve better experimental fidelity and extend the application of integrated-fluidic resonant-mass sensing. Fluctuations in sample position or trajectory can lead to measurement error, thereby degrading the resolution with which these devices can accurately characterize mass. Optical trapping offers precise location c... View full abstract»

• ### Variability Induced Sensitivity Degradation in Coupled Nano/Micro Resonant Sensors

Publication Year: 2018, Page(s): 1
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Coupled M/NEMS resonators arrays have recently emerged as a promising candidate for multi-sensing. The collective behaviour of coupled system offers new sensing methods such as eigenvalue and eigenvector with enhanced sensitivity and functionality. However, placing more than one nano-device on a chip leads to problems due to process-induced variability. This paper characterises the sensitivity of ... View full abstract»

## Aims & Scope

The IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology is devoted to the publication of manuscripts of archival value in the general area of nanotechnology, which is rapidly emerging as one of the fastest growing and most promising new technological developments for the next generation and beyond.

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## Meet Our Editors

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Fabrizio Lombardi
Dept. of ECE
Northeastern Univ.