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48
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9110
World Ranking
3077
National Ranking
55

Overview

Aaron Thean is affiliated with the National University of Singapore and specializes in engineering, with a focus on electrical and electronic engineering. Their research spans several interconnected fields, including biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, artificial intelligence, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Thean's primary research topics include semiconductor materials and devices, advanced memory and neural computing, ferroelectric and negative capacitance devices, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, photonic and optical devices, advancements in semiconductor devices and circuit design, and thin-film transistor technologies.

Thean has published extensively, including notable papers such as:

  • "Technology Roadmap for Flexible Sensors" (2023) published in ACS Nano
  • "Low Subthreshold Swing and High Mobility Amorphous Indium-Gallium-Zinc-Oxide Thin-Film Transistor With Thin HfO2 Gate Dielectric and Excellent Uniformity" (2020) published in IEEE Electron Device Letters
  • "An Artificial Peripheral Neural System Based on Highly Stretchable and Integrated Multifunctional Sensors" (2021) published in Advanced Functional Materials
  • "A Wireless Multi-Channel Capacitive Sensor System for Efficient Glove-Based Gesture Recognition With AI at the Edge" (2020) published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems II Express Briefs
  • "Reconfigurable nonlinear photonic activation function for photonic neural network based on non-volatile opto-resistive RAM switch" (2022) published in Light Science & Applications

Thean frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Jieming Pan, Evgeny Zamburg, Yida Li, Baoshan Tang, and Sonu Hooda. These collaborations have contributed to a substantial number of joint publications across multiple venues.

Thean's work appears regularly in a number of scientific journals and conferences. Frequent publication venues include:

  • IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
  • ACS Nano
  • 2022 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM)
  • IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

Best Publications

  • Vertical GAAFETs for the Ultimate CMOS Scaling

    Dmitry Yakimets;Geert Eneman;Pieter Schuddinck;Trong Huynh Bao

  • Gate-all-around MOSFETs based on vertically stacked horizontal Si nanowires in a replacement metal gate process on bulk Si substrates

    H. Mertens;R. Ritzenthaler;A. Hikavyy;M. S. Kim

  • A Fully Printed Flexible MoS 2 Memristive Artificial Synapse with Femtojoule Switching Energy

    Xuewei Feng;Yida Li;Lin Wang;Shuai Chen

  • Fabrication and Analysis of a ${ m Si}/{ m Si}_{0.55}{ m Ge}_{0.45}$ Heterojunction Line Tunnel FET

    Amey M. Walke;Anne Vandooren;Rita Rooyackers;Daniele Leonelli

  • All WSe2 1T1R resistive RAM cell for future monolithic 3D embedded memory integration.

    Maheswari Sivan;Yida Li;Hasita Veluri;Yunshan Zhao

  • Self-powered glove-based intuitive interface for diversified control applications in real/cyber space

    Tianyiyi He;Zhongda Sun;Qiongfeng Shi;Minglu Zhu

  • Understanding Energy Efficiency Benefits of Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors for Digital VLSI

    Gage Hills;Marie Garcia Bardon;Gerben Doornbos;Dmitry Yakimets

  • CMOS Vertical Multiple Independent Gate Field Effect Transistor (MIGFET)

    L. Mathew;Y. Du;A.V.-Y. Thean;M. Sadd

  • A cost effective 32nm high-K/ metal gate CMOS technology for low power applications with single-metal/gate-first process

    X. Chen;S. Samavedam;V. Narayanan;K. Stein

  • Impact of Wire Geometry on Interconnect RC and Circuit Delay

    Ivan Ciofi;Antonino Contino;Philippe J. Roussel;Rogier Baert

  • Heteroepitaxy of InP on Si(001) by selective-area metal organic vapor-phase epitaxy in sub-50 nm width trenches: The role of the nucleation layer and the recess engineering

    Clement Merckling;Niamh Waldron;Sijia Jiang;W Guo

  • InGaAs Gate-All-Around Nanowire Devices on 300mm Si Substrates

    Niamh Waldron;Clement Merckling;Lieve Teugels;Patrick Ong

  • Low-Frequency Noise Analysis and Modeling in Vertical Tunnel FETs With Ge Source

    Felipe S. Neves;Paula G. D. Agopian;Joao Antonio Martino;Bogdan Cretu

  • An InGaAs/InP quantum well finfet using the replacement fin process integrated in an RMG flow on 300mm Si substrates

    N. Waldron;C. Merckling;W. Guo;P. Ong

  • Self-heating on bulk FinFET from 14nm down to 7nm node

    D. Jang;E. Bury;R. Ritzenthaler;M. Garcia Bardon

  • Polarity control in WSe2 double-gate transistors

    Giovanni V. Resta;Surajit Sutar;Surajit Sutar;Yashwanth Balaji;Dennis Lin

  • Low temperature deposition of 2D WS2 layers from WF6 and H2S precursors: impact of reducing agents

    A. Delabie;M. Caymax;B. Groven;M. Heyne

  • Controlled Sulfurization Process for the Synthesis of Large Area MoS2 Films and MoS2/WS2 Heterostructures

    Daniele Chiappe;Inge Asselberghs;Surajit Sutar;Serena Iacovo

  • An Artificial Peripheral Neural System Based on Highly Stretchable and Integrated Multifunctional Sensors

    Xinqin Liao;Xinqin Liao;Weitao Song;Xiangyu Zhang;Haoran Jin

  • Low Subthreshold Swing and High Mobility Amorphous Indium–Gallium–Zinc-Oxide Thin-Film Transistor With Thin HfO 2 Gate Dielectric and Excellent Uniformity

    Subhranu Samanta;Umesh Chand;Shengqiang Xu;Kaizhen Han

  • Multiring Circular Transmission Line Model for Ultralow Contact Resistivity Extraction

    Hao Yu;Marc Schaekers;Tom Schram;Erik Rosseel

  • 32nm general purpose bulk CMOS technology for high performance applications at low voltage

    F. Arnaud;J. Liu;Y.M. Lee;K.Y. Lim

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