Activation Enhancement and Grain Size Improvement for Poly-Si Channel Vertical Transistor by Laser Thermal Annealing in 3D NAND Flash.

The bit density is generally increased by stacking more layers in 3D NAND Flash. Lowering dopant activation of select transistors results from complex integrated processes. To improve channel dopant activation, the test structure of vertical channel transistors was used to investigate the influence of laser thermal annealing on dopant activation.

A Novel Capacitorless 1T DRAM with Embedded Oxide Layer.

A novel vertical dual surrounding gate transistor with embedded oxide layer is proposed for capacitorless single transistor DRAM (1T DRAM). The embedded oxide layer is innovatively used to improve the retention time by reducing the recombination rate of stored holes and sensing electrons. Based on TCAD simulations, the new structure is predicted to not only have the characteristics of fast access, random read and integration of 4F cell, but also to realize good retention and deep scaling.

Auditory event-related potentials based on name stimuli: A pilot study.

In recent years, diagnostic studies of brain disorders based on auditory event-related potentials (AERP) have become a hot topic. Research showed that AERP might help to detect patient consciousness, especially using the subjects' own name (SON). In this study, we conducted a preliminary analysis of the brain response to Chinese name stimuli.

Study on the effect of nontarget types on name based auditory event-related potentials.

Exploring the brain response to stimuli of healthy people in passive state is helpful to understand the brain response mechanism of unresponsive people. Event-related potential (ERP) can reflect the time synchronization of potentials, which is a feasible objective electrophysiological index reflecting the functional status of the brain. In this paper, we used the subjects' own name (SON) as target stimuli and compared with the nontarget stimuli (others' name) of Three Chinese Characters (3CC) and Two Chinese Characters (2CC) with the same stimuli duration (600ms) and inter stimuli interval (500ms-800ms）.

Multi-terminal ionic-gated low-power silicon nanowire synaptic transistors with dendritic functions for neuromorphic systems.

Neuromorphic computing systems have shown powerful capability in tasks, such as recognition, learning, classification and decision-making, which are both challenging and inefficient in using the traditional computation architecture. The key elements including synapses and neurons, and their feasible hardware implementation are essential for practical neuromorphic computing. However, most existing synaptic devices used to emulate functions of a single synapse and the synapse-based networks are more energy intensive and less sustainable than their biological counterparts.