Browsing Theses by Supervisor "Wei, Lan"
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Addressing the RRAM Reliability and Radiation Soft-Errors in the Memory Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-11)With the continuous and aggressive technology scaling, the design of memory systems becomes very challenging. The desire to have high-capacity, reliable, and energy efficient memory arrays is rising rapidly. However, from ... -
Appropriateness of Imperfect CNFET Based Circuits for Error Resilient Computing Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-06)With superior device performance consistently reported in extremely scaled dimensions, low dimensional materials (LDMs), including Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor (CNFET) based technology, have shown the potential ... -
Cryogenic CMOS Compact Modeling for Cryo-Electronic Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-27)Quantum computing holds the promise of a monumental leap in computational power, enabling the resolution of previously insurmountable problems with astonishing speed compared to classical computers. Emerging computing ... -
Design and Development of a Self-contained and Non-Invasive Integrated System for Electricity Monitoring Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-30)Growing interest in improving the energy consumption efficiency in residential and commercial buildings has led to the emergence of intelligent energy management systems. This growing technology allows the transformation ... -
Design, Modelling, and Fabrication of a Low Frequency Piezoelectromagnetic Energy Harvester
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-31)The growing demand for electricity has put enormous pressure on the current power grid infrastructure and has caused several major blackouts over the past few decades. As a result, there has been a shift towards a modernized ... -
Development of a Simulation Framework for 2D-Material MOSFETs: Investigating Cryogenic Behaviors and Enhancing Performance Optimization
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-01)The relentless pursuit of miniaturization in semiconductor technology has ushered in the era of nanotransistors, which operate at the cutting edge of physical limits. This thesis presents significant advancements in ... -
Development of Control Circuits for Silicon MOS Quantum Dot Qubit Network
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-23)Future quantum processors intend to operate on millions of qubits and Silicon Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) Quantum Dot qubits are a good fit for such a large-scale system due to their compactness in size and large ... -
Leveraging RRAM to Design Efficient Digital Circuits and Systems for Beyond Von Neumann in-Memory Computing
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-22)Due to the physical separation of their processing elements and storage units, contemporary digital computers are confronted with the thorny memory-wall problem. The strategy of in-memory computing has been considered as ... -
Physics Based Virtual Source Compact Model of Gallium-Nitride High Electron Mobility Transistors
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-19)Gallium Nitride (GaN) based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) outperform Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) and silicon based transistors for radio frequency (RF) applications in terms of output power and efficiency due to ... -
RRAM in High-speed TCAM Design and Its Applications with New Switching Materials
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-17)With the continuous scaling of transistor devices reaching their physical limits, emerging non-volatile memory (eNVM) devices such as resistive random-access memory (RRAM) is considered one of the alternatives to maintain ... -
Struck-at Fault Tolerance with Emerging Technology RAM in the NeuroSim MLP Neural Network System
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-15)After decades of technology advancements, benefits from conventional dimensional scaling and effective scaling such as strain and high-k gate dielectrics are diminishing. In the post-Moore era, interests gathers around ... -
TiO2 and Biomaterials based Memristor Devices and its In-Memory Computing Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-01)As information technology is moving toward a big data era, the conventional Von Neumann architecture has shown limitation in performance. This is constrained by the large volume of data being continuously fetched and stored ...