Invited Speakers

 

Pierpaolo Palestri
Associate Professor, DPIA, University of Udine, Udine, Italy

Title: Semi-classical modeling of nanoscale nMOSFETs with III-V channel

Abstract: We review recent results on the modeling of nanoscale nMOSFETs with III-V compounds channel material. The focus will be on semi-classical transport modeling in short channel devices; we will show that back-scattering in the channel still influences the device performance, and thus affects the choice of the channel material. The model ingredients necessary to describe III-V MOSFETs will be discussed, and major differences compared to modeling of silicon FETs will be highlighted.

Biography: Pierpaolo Palestri received the Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1998, and the Ph.D. in Industrial and Information Technologies from the University of Udine, Italy, in 2003. From July 2000 to September 2001 he held a post-doctoral position at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies (then Agere Systems), Murray Hill, NJ.  In October 2001 he became Research Associate and in November 2005 Associate Professor at the University of Udine, Italy. His research interests include the modeling of carrier transport, hot-carrier and tunneling phenomena in nanoscale devices and Non-Volatile-Memory cells, as well as the design of integrated circuits for high-frequency applications. Pierpaolo Palestri has coauthored about 250 paper in international journal and conferences with peer review.