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NASA NTRS1999

Excitation Spectroscopy as a Tool of Microelectronics Reliability

The main objective of this task was to experimentally determine the feasibility of using a non-contact IR emission spectroscopy technique to measure the hot spot channel temperature of sub-micron GaAs metal semiconductor field effect transistor gate during operation.

Excitation Spectroscopy Microspot Temperature Asse↗
NASA NTRS2017

Update on NASA Microelectronics Activities

Mission Statement: The NASA Electronic Parts and Packaging (NEPP) Program provides NASA's leadership for developing and maintaining guidance for the screening, qualification, test. and usage of EEE parts by NASA as well as in collaboration with other government Agencies and industry. NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) "STMD rapidly develops, demonstrates, and infuses revolutionary, high-payoff technologies through transparent, collaborative partnerships, expanding the boundaries of the aerospace enterprise." Mission Statement: The Space Environments Testing Management Office (SETMO) will identify, prioritize, and manage a select suite of Agency key capabilities/assets that are deemed to be essential to the future needs of NASA or the nation, including some capabilities that lack an adequate business base over the budget horizon. NESC mission is to perform value-added independent testing, analysis, and assessments of NASA's high-risk projects to ensure safety and mission success. NASA Space Environments and Avionics Fellows as well as Radiation and EEE Parts Community of Practice (CoP) leads.

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NASA NTRS1999

Integrated Design and Optimization of Microelectronic Devices

A genetic algorithm is used for design of infrared filters and in the understanding of the material structure of a resonant tunneling diode. These two components are examples of microdevices and nanodevices that can be numerically simulated using fundamental mathematical and physical models.

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DOE OSTI2022

Materials for a Sustainable Microelectronics Future: Electric Field Control of Magnetism with Multiferroics

This article is written on behalf of many colleagues, collaborators, and researchers in the field of complex oxides as well as current and former students and postdocs who continue to enable and undertake cutting-edge research in the field of multiferroics, magnetoelectrics, and the pursuit of electric-field control of magnetism. What I present is something that is extremely exciting from both a fundamental science and applications perspective and has the potential to revolutionize our world, particularly from a sustainability perspective. To realize this potential will require numerous new innovations, both in the fundamental science arena as well as translating these scientific discoveries into real applications. Thus, this article will attempt to bridge the gap between fundamental materials physics and the actual manifestations of the physical concepts into real-life applications. Further, I hope this article will help spur more translational research within the broad materials community.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗
DOE OSTI2022

Analog Quantum Simulation of the Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems with Quantum Dots and Microelectronic Circuits

We introduce a general setup for the analog quantum simulation of the dynamics of open quantum systems based on semiconductor quantum dots electrically connected to a chain of quantum RLC electronic circuits. The dots are chosen to be in the regime of spin-charge hybridization to enhance their sensitivity to the RLC circuits while mitigating the detrimental effects of unwanted noise. In this context, we establish an experimentally realizable map between the hybrid system and a qubit coupled to thermal harmonic environments of arbitrary complexity that enables the analog quantum simulation of open quantum systems. We assess the utility of the simulator by numerically exact emulations that indicate that the experimental setup can faithfully mimic the intended target even in the presence of its natural inherent noise. We further provide a detailed analysis of the physical requirements on the quantum dots and the RLC circuits needed to experimentally realize this proposal that indicates that the simulator can be created with existing technology. The approach can exactly capture the effects of highly structured non-Markovian quantum environments typical of photosynthesis and chemical dynamics, and offer clear potential advantages over conventional and even quantum computation. The proposal opens a general path for effective quantum dynamics simulations based on semiconductor quantum dots.

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSIC↗
DOE OSTI2018

Diversity for Microelectronics Lifecycle Security

In this work we examine approaches for using implementation diversity to disrupt or disable hardware trojans. We explore a variety of general frameworks for building diverse variants of circuits in voting architectures, and examine the impact of these on attackers and defenders mathematically and empirically. This work is augmented by analysis of a new majority voting technique. We also describe several automated approaches for generating diverse variants of a circuit and empirically study the overheads associated with these. We then describe a general technique for targeting functional circuit modifications to hardware trojans, present several specific implementations of this technique, and study the impact that they have on trojanized benchmark circuits.

97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING↗
DOE OSTI2021

Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and Radiation Tolerant Microelectronics

Sandia National Laboratories was asked to provide a technical feasibility assessment on whether programmability is a viable means to address the radiation levels in the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Most (if not all) modern Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technologies will exceed at least one of the EAR radiation criteria inherently, there is no longer anything “special” about domestic parts or technologies that exceed EAR radiation criteria. A modern part today is not “designed” to exceed EAR criteria and in fact a part would need to be “specially designed” to fail to meet all of these criteria. And although it is possible to design a part to fail to meet the EAR radiation criteria in an unprogrammed state, such a part would be difficult to design in some technologies, may not achieve the ultimate radiation levels desired, would fail to meet core reliability principles, and may be unsuitable for high consequence applications.

07 ISOTOPE AND RADIATION SOURCES↗