Investigation of time domain characteristics of negative capacitance FinFET by pulse-train approaches

Yuwei Cai; Zhaohao Zhang; Qingzhu Zhang; Jinjuan Xiang; Gaobo Xu; Zhenhua Wu; Jie Gu; Huaxiang Yin

doi:10.1088/1674-4926/42/11/114101

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