Water soluble nano-scale transient material germanium oxide for zero toxic waste based environmentally benign nano-manufacturing
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Almuslem, A. S.Hanna, Amir

Yapici, Tahir
Wehbe, N.
Diallo, Elhadj
Kutbee, Arwa T.

Bahabry, Rabab R.

Hussain, Muhammad Mustafa

KAUST Department
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) DivisionElectrical Engineering Program
Environmental Lab Inorganics
Imaging and Characterization Core Lab
Integrated Disruptive Electronic Applications (IDEA) Lab
Integrated Nanotechnology Lab
Material Science and Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Thermal & Deposition
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2017-02-14Online Publication Date
2017-02-14Print Publication Date
2017-02-13Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/622963
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In the recent past, with the advent of transient electronics for mostly implantable and secured electronic applications, the whole field effect transistor structure has been dissolved in a variety of chemicals. Here, we show simple water soluble nano-scale (sub-10 nm) germanium oxide (GeO) as the dissolvable component to remove the functional structures of metal oxide semiconductor devices and then reuse the expensive germanium substrate again for functional device fabrication. This way, in addition to transiency, we also show an environmentally friendly manufacturing process for a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology. Every year, trillions of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) electronics are manufactured and billions are disposed, which extend the harmful impact to our environment. Therefore, this is a key study to show a pragmatic approach for water soluble high performance electronics for environmentally friendly manufacturing and bioresorbable electronic applications.Citation
Almuslem AS, Hanna AN, Yapici T, Wehbe N, Diallo EM, et al. (2017) Water soluble nano-scale transient material germanium oxide for zero toxic waste based environmentally benign nano-manufacturing. Applied Physics Letters 110: 074103. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4976311.Sponsors
This publication is based on the work supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).Publisher
AIP PublishingJournal
Applied Physics LettersAdditional Links
http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4976311ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1063/1.4976311