Low Power Designs in Nanodevices and Circuits for Emerging Applications (Paperback)

This reference textbook discusses low power designs for emerging applications. This book focuses on the research challenges associated with theory, design, and applications towards emerging Microelectronics and VLSI device design and developments, about low power consumptions. The advancements in large-scale integration technologies are principally responsible for the growth of the electronics industry.

This book is focused on senior undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals in the field of electrical and electronics engineering, nanotechnology. This book:

• Discusses various low power techniques and applications for designing efficient circuits
• Covers advance nanodevices such as FinFETs, TFETs, CNTFETs
• Covers various emerging areas like Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata Circuits and FPGAs and sensors
• Discusses applications like memory design for low power applications using nanodevices

The number of options for ICs in control applications, telecommunications, high-performance computing, and consumer electronics continues to grow with the emergence of VLSI designs. Nanodevices have revolutionized the electronics market and human life; it has impacted individual life to make it more convenient. They are ruling every sector such as electronics, energy, biomedicine, food, environment, and communication. This book discusses various emerging low power applications using CMOS and other emerging nanodevices.

Shilpi Birla is currently working as an Associate Professor at Manipal University, Jaipur. She has done B.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering, M.Tech in VLSI Design and Ph.D. in Low power VLSI Design from Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun India. She is having a total 14 years of experience, which includes teaching and industrial experience. She is a senior member of IEEE. She has authored and co-authored 80 research papers in journals of repute and international conferences. She is a reviewer and TPC member of several International Conferences. She is currently teaching, Microelectronics and VLSI Design courses at UG & PG level. She is also a reviewer of several journals like Microelectronics Journal, International Journal of Electronics, and many more IEEE-sponsored conferences. Two Doctoral degrees have been awarded under her guidance. She is guiding four Ph.D. students in Low Power VLSI & Nano devices. She has set up VLSI Lab in different institutes. She has conducted short-term courses in TCAD, HSPICE and Fabrication and workshops at National Level in VLSI Domain. Her research area is VLSI Design, Digital System design, Analog VLSI & Image Processing.

Dr. Shashi Kant Dargar is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Electronics & Communication Engineering Department at Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Tamilnadu, India. He received his Ph.D. degree (2017) in microelectronics, Master's (2013) in digital communication, and Bachelor's (2005) in electronics and communication engineering. He completed his three-year post-doctoral research in electronic engineering at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. He has contributed to research and academics for 16 years, including microelectronics, thin-film device design, VLSI, wireless communication, and microwave & communication engineering. He taught Analog Integrated circuits, VLSI signal processing, VLSI Technology, Analog Devices, Circuits, Signals and Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Communications and Low Power VLSI design. At the postgraduate level, Thin Film Electronics, Flexible Electronics, Sensor devices, Microwave and Communication, Semiconductor Device Modelling and Quantum electronics. He has authored 41 scientific research articles in reputed journals and conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and Life Member of IEEE HKN- Mu Eta Chapter.

Dr Neha Singh is a well-rounded and dynamic teaching professional with 19 years of in-depth experience in educating undergraduate and postgraduate engineering students in Electronics & Communication Engineering. She is currently working as Assistant Professor, in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering at Manipal University Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. She did her PhD in the year 2020. Her areas of research interest include Image Processing, Machine learning, VLSI design and nanodevices. She has several papers and book chapters published in Journals and conferences of repute. She has co-authored engineering textbooks and edited a book on Nanotechnology: Device Design and Applications. She has served as reviewer in various International and peer reviewed Journals and conferences. She has also worked as Convener, Session Chair and organizer of various international conferences, summer internships in Diode Fabrication and Faculty Development Programs. She has guided several M Tech Dissertations and B Tech projects and guiding PhD scholars as well.

Dr P Sivakumar is presently working as a Professor & Dean School of Electronics, Electrical and Biomedical Technology at the Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education in India. He received his Undergraduate degree from Madurai Kamaraj University, India, in 2001, and his PhD degree in VLSI design from Anna University, Chennai, India, in 2013. He has published 80 papers in peer and refereed Journals and chapters in books. He participated in his research in the various forums of VLSI Design. He is currently teaching RTL logic and system design course. He also presented various academic and research-based papers related to VLSI, Image processing and Optimization at several national and international conferences. He has teaching experience of almost 20 years of in Electronics and Communication. He is in the reviewer panel of many Journals for reviewing scientific manuscripts. And he has supervised more than 30 PG and PhD Scholars. He has also been involved as an investigator and co-investigator in several Projects & Consultancy supported by Government agencies in India.