Provided are nonvolatile memory devices including 2-dimensional (2D) material and apparatuses including the nonvolatile memory devices. A nonvolatile memory device may include a storage stack including a plurality of charge storage layers between a channel element and a gate electrode facing the channel element. The plurality of charge storage layers may include a 2D material. An interlayer barrier layer may be further provided between the plurality of charge storage layers. The nonvolatile memory device may have a multi-bit or multi-level memory characteristic due to the plurality of charge storage layers.

A TFT structure based on a flexible multi-layer graphene quantum carbon substrate material and a method for manufacturing the same. The TFT structure includes a multi-layer graphene quantum carbon substrate, a first source, a first drain, a first gate insulating layer, and a first gate. The multi-layer graphene quantum carbon substrate includes a first channel area, and a first drain area and a first source area that are located at corresponding recessed positions on the multi-layer graphene quantum carbon substrate that are separated from each other. The first channel area is located between the first drain area and the first source area, the first source is filled in the first source area, the first drain is filled in the first drain area, the first gate insulating layer is disposed on the first channel area, and the first gate is disposed on the first gate insulating layer.

A thin film transistor according to the inventive concept includes: a substrate; an insulating layer provided on the substrate; a superlattice channel layer provided on the insulating layer; and a source electrode and a drain electrode configured to cover a pair of opposite lateral surfaces of the superlattice channel layer, wherein the superlattice channel layer includes alternately stacked semiconductor layers and organic layers. A thickness of each semiconductor layer may be greater than about 3 nm to less than about 5 nm, and a thickness of each organic layer may be about 1 Å to about 1 nm.

A crystalline channel layer of a semiconductor material is formed in a backend process over a crystalline dielectric seed layer. A crystalline magnesium oxide MgO is formed over an amorphous inter-layer dielectric layer. The crystalline MgO provides physical link to the formation of a crystalline semiconductor layer thereover.

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first semiconductor layer having a first composition over a semiconductor substrate, and forming a second semiconductor layer having a second composition over the first semiconductor layer. Another first semiconductor layer having the first composition is formed over the second semiconductor layer. A third semiconductor layer having a third composition is formed over the another first semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layers, second semiconductor layer, and third semiconductor layer are patterned to form a fin structure. A portion of the third semiconductor layer is removed thereby forming a nanowire comprising the second semiconductor layer, and a conductive material is formed surrounding the nanowire. The first semiconductor layers, second semiconductor layer, and third semiconductor layer include different materials.

A semiconductor device may include a substrate and a hyper-abrupt junction region carried by the substrate. The hyper-abrupt junction region may include a first semiconductor layer having a first conductivity type, a superlattice layer on the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer on the superlattice layer and having a second conductivity type different than the first conductivity type. The superlattice may include stacked groups of layers, with each group of layers including stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a base semiconductor portion, and at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base semiconductor portions. The semiconductor device may further include a first contact coupled to the hyper-abrupt junction region, and a second contact coupled to the substrate to define a varactor.

Provided herein are devices, systems, and methods of employing the same for the performance of bioinformatics analysis. The apparatuses and methods of the disclosure are directed in part to large scale graphene FET sensors, arrays, and integrated circuits employing the same for analyte measurements. The present GFET sensors, arrays, and integrated circuits may be fabricated using conventional CMOS processing techniques based on improved GFET pixel and array designs that increase measurement sensitivity and accuracy, and at the same time facilitate significantly small pixel sizes and dense GFET sensor based arrays. Improved fabrication techniques employing graphene as a reaction layer provide for rapid data acquisition from small sensors to large and dense arrays of sensors. Such arrays may be employed to detect a presence and/or concentration changes of various analyte types in a wide variety of chemical and/or biological processes, including DNA hybridization and/or sequencing reactions. Accordingly, GFET arrays facilitate DNA sequencing techniques based on monitoring changes in hydrogen ion concentration (pH), changes in other analyte concentration, and/or binding events associated with chemical processes relating to DNA synthesis within a gated reaction chamber of the GFET based sensor.

A field-effect transistor including: a gate electrode, which is configured to apply gate voltage; a source electrode and a drain electrode, which are configured to transfer an electrical signal; an active layer, which is formed between the source electrode and the drain electrode; and a gate insulating layer, which is formed between the gate electrode and the active layer, the active layer including at least two kinds of oxide layers including layer A and layer B, and the active layer satisfying at least one of condition (1) and condition (2) below: condition (1): the active layer includes 3 or more oxide layers including 2 or more of the layer A; and condition (2): a band-gap of the layer A is lower than a band-gap of the layer B and an oxygen affinity of the layer A is equal to or higher than an oxygen affinity of the layer B.

Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can include a nanowire channel. The nanowire channel can include nanowires and the nanowires can be about fifteen (15) or less angstroms apart. The nanowire channel can include more than ten (10) nanowires and can be created from a MXene material.

Disclosed herein are quantum dot devices, as well as related computing devices and methods. For example, in some embodiments, a quantum dot device may include: a quantum well stack including a quantum well layer, a doped layer, and a barrier layer disposed between the doped layer and the quantum well layer; and gates disposed above the quantum well stack. The doped layer may include a first material and a dopant, the first material may have a first diffusivity of the dopant, the barrier layer may include a second material having a second diffusivity of the dopant, and the second diffusivity may be less than the first diffusivity.