Tara Ghafouri

• PhD candidate
• K.N.Toosi University of Technology

Current advancements in neuromorphic computing systems are focused on decreasing power consumption and enriching computational functions. Correspondingly, state-of-the-art system-on-chip developers are encouraged to design nanoscale devices with minimum power dissipation and high-speed operation. This paper deals with designing a sense amplifier ba...

Nanostructured solid-state devices demonstrate prominent electronic transport properties and thus represent powerful building blocks for a wide range of analog and digital integrated circuits and systems. In this study, the integration of the side-contacted field effect diode (S-FED) with the silicon nanowire concept is pursued to create a device t...

This paper suggests a straightforward and rapid fabrication method applying the integration of 3D printing and triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) technologies to realize milli/microfluidic multipurpose devices. The proposed liquid-solid TENG device is served as an energy harvester and sensor at the same time with flexibility in operation modes. Acc...

Oxide semiconductor-based heterojunction bipolar transistors are widely applicable in flexible, printable, and cost-effective circuit applications. Among earth-abundant metal oxides, zinc oxide and copper oxide inherently show n-type and p-type characteristics, respectively, and their electronic properties can be easily modified during the fabricat...

Background: In the current study, a hybrid feature selection approach involving filter and wrapper methods is applied to some bioscience databases with various records, attributes and classes; hence, this strategy enjoys the advantages of both methods such as fast execution, generality, and accuracy. The purpose is diagnosing of the disease status...

In this paper, a nanostructured solid-state biosensor is proposed for the non-enzymatic detection of creatine as a possible stimulus for skeletal/cardiac muscle hypertrophy. Phonon dispersion curve reveals that two-dimensional honeycomb-like ZnO nanostructure applied here has true local minima. Sensing properties of the device toward creatine are t...

Differential diagnosis of pathogenic diseases, presently coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and influenza, is crucial with due attention to their superspreading events, presumably long incubation period, particular complications, and treatments. In this paper, a label-free, self-powered, and ultrafast immunosensor device working based on triboelec...

Low-power and high-speed logic gates and memory cells based on side-contacted field-effect diodes (S-FED) exhibit considerably less overshoot and Miller-effect degradation compared to their CMOS counterparts. Numerical simulations of current and carrier densities during ON/OFF transitions are used to develop a rigorous model of internal capacitance...

Modern system-on-chip (SoC) designers are trying to include more considerations in designing building blocks to present reliable integrated digital circuits as well as high-density, high-speed, and low-power ones. In this paper, an innovative device so-called High Electron Mobility Field-Effect Diode (HEMFED) is successfully designed based on AlGaN...

Numerical approaches play an outstanding role in solution of quantum mechanical problems with due attention to the complexity of analytic solutions for open systems. This paper studies quantum characteristics of the previously proposed side-contacted field-effect diode (S-FED) as an emerging device in the modern system-on-chips (SoCs) using the fin...

Modern system-on-chip (SoC) designers are trying to include more considerations in designing building blocks to present reliable integrated digital circuits as well as high-density ones. In this article, an innovative static random access memory (SRAM) bit-cell architecture is successfully designed based on the previously proposed side-contacted fi...

Designing a high-quality switch block ensures the efficient data transmission in digital circuits and systems. In this paper, an innovative 2:1 multiplexer is successfully designed based on the previously proposed side-contacted field-effect diodes (S-FEDs) at 180 nm SOI technology node. Optimization of the reservoir thickness and gate work functio...

Designing a Static Random-Access Memory (SRAM) cell configuration that copes with conventional complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) constraints on the cell area is desired to satisfy high packing density in integrated digital circuits. This paper analyzes and compares performance parameters of 6T SRAM bit-cells based on the side-contacted...

Nanostructure-based sensors working based on the adsorption-desorption mechanism received much attention in a wide variety of applications as a way to achieve both ultrasensitive sensing and small dimensions. In this paper, the adsorption of ammonia molecule on silicon nanowire surface with square, circular, and triangular cross-sectional shapes, w...