Silicon Nanowire Transistors (PDF)

Ahmet Bindal received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
Electrical Engineering Department from the University of California, Los
Angeles CA. His doctoral research was the material characterization and
analysis of HEMT GaAs transistors. During his graduate studies, he was a
research associate and technical consultant for Hughes Aircraft Co. In 1988, he
joined the technical staff of IBM Research and Development Center in Fishkill,
NY, where he worked as a device design and characterization engineer. He
developed asymmetrical MOS transistors and ultra thin Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI)
technologies for IBM. In 1993, he transferred to IBM in Rochester, MN, as a
senior circuit design engineer to work on the floating-point unit for AS-400
main frame processor. He continued his circuit design career at Intel
Corporation in Santa Clara, CA, where he designed 16-bit packed multipliers and
adders for the MMX unit for Pentium II processors. In 1996, he joined Philips
Semiconductors in Sunnyvale, CA, where he was involved in the designs of
instruction and data caches, and various SRAM modules for the Trimedia
processor. His involvement with VLSI architecture also started in Philips
Semiconductors and led to the design of the Video-Out unit for the same
processor. In 1998, he joined Cadence Design Systems as a VLSI architect and
directed a team of engineers to design self-timed asynchronous processors.
After approximately 20 years of industry work, he joined the Computer
Engineering faculty at San Jose State University in 2002. His current research
interests range from nano-scale electron devices to nano-scale architectures
and robotics. Dr. Bindal has over 30 refereed scientific publications and 10
invention disclosures with IBM. He currently holds three U.S. patents with IBM
and one with Intel Corporation.Dr. Hamedi-Hagh received his Ph.D. from the University
of Toronto, Canada in 2004. He joined the Electrical Engineering Department at
San Jose State