Landau Electronics: A Reading List
Elementary Physics of Phase Transition
Elementary Physics of Phase Transition
- H. Haken, Synergetics, An Introduction, Springer-Verlag. Haken was among the first to highlight the importance and ubiquity of phase transitions in electronics, optics, economics, and sociology.
- Phase Transitions: Ricard Sole, PDF A Haken-style broad analysis of systems involving phase transition.
- The Many Phases of Matter, G. Venkataraman, University Press. Connections symmetry breaking and phase transition
- Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, S. H. Strogatz Phase transition in time, connects to catastrophe theory
- Response and Stability, A. B. Pippard, PDF A highly readable book that uses classical electronic components to create remarkably complex phase transition systems.
- A nice paper that connects hysteresis, avalanche, and critical phenomena PDF
- Statistical Mechanics, Kinetic Theory, and Stochastic Processes C. V. Heer
- Noise in nonlinear dynamic systems Volume 1, Frank Moss & P. V. E. McClintock
- Noise in nonlinear dynamic systems Volume 2, Frank Moss & P. V. E. McClintock
Perspectives, Review Articles, and Books on Ferroelectrics
Perspectives, Review Articles, and Books on Ferroelectrics
- History of Ferroelectrics PDF
- A simple first-principle model of ferroelectrics PDF Connects Piezoelectric and ferroelectrics in an elementary framework.
- M.E. Lines and M. A. Glass, Principles and Applications of Ferroelectrics, Oxford Classics. PDF (Advanced, Reference)
- J. F. Scott, Ferroelectric Memories, Springer 2000.
- Landau Free Energy Coefficients PDF
Landau Switch: Microelectromechanical Switches
Landau Switch: Microelectromechanical Switches
- Foundations of Nanomechanics, From solid state theory to device applications, Andrew N. Clelan
- Mechanics of Materials, R. C. Hibbler
- Linear Control Systems: Analysis and Design by J.J. D'Azzo and C.H. Houpis, discusses Lagrange's method of unified electrical, chemical, mechanical systems represented by circuit elements
- Review of Instability in MEMS/NEMS, PDF
- Scaling of Electrical and Mechanical Forces PDF
- Modeling of MEMS PDF1, PDF2, PDF3, PDF4
- RF-MEMS: Switches for Communication PDF1, PDF2
- NEMS Relays: Switches for Computation PDF
- Soft-Landing in MEMS Switches PDF
- Nanometer gap MEMS PDF
Landau Switch: Ferroelectrics
Landau Switch: Ferroelectrics
- Proposal of Negative Capacitance in Transistors using Ferroelectrics PDF
- Experimental Proof of Negative Capacitance in Ferroelectrics PDF1 PDF2 PDF3
- Proposal of MEMS for Negative Capacitance and Landau Switches PDF
- Indirect Proof of Negative Capacitance in MEMS PDF
- Fundamental Limits of Sub-threshold Swing in NC-FETs PDF
- 0-mV/dec switching with series MEMS and FE PDF
- A sub-60 switch based on Piezoelectric gate material ( Raj Jana et al.. Physica status solidi (c) 10.11 (2013): 1469-1472.)
- A Short Historical Review of Development of Negatronics (NA Filinyuk and AA Lazarev. Int. J. Electron. Commun. 68, 172-177,2014)
- Negative capacitance using circuits PDF
- Negative Stiffness in composite materials PDF
- Papers: Alldredge, Nanolett 2010 PDF A criticism of Landau switches.
- A FE-AFE switch to improve subthreshold performance PDF
- Observation and control of hot atom damage in Ferroelectrics PDF
Landau Sensors and Actuators
Landau Sensors and Actuators
- Resonant Gate Transistor PDF
- Deformable Mirrors PDF
- Mirasol Displays PDF
- Travel Range of Tunable Actuators PDF1 PDF2 PDF3 PDF4
- Nanoelectromechanical Systems PDF
- Mechanical Biosensors PDF1 PDF2
- Limits of Mass Sensing PDF
- Spring Softening PDF
- Nonlinear mechanical biosensors PDF1, PDF2, PDF3, PDF4
- Noise suppression in Flexure FET PDF
Logic-in-Memory Systems
Logic-in-Memory Systems
- H. Stone, "A Logic in Memory Computer", IEEE Trans. on Computers, 1970. (One of the first papers)
- A. M. Peskin, "A Logic-in-Memory Architecture for LSI Circuits", IEEE Trans. on Computers, 1972.
- S. Matsunaga et al. MTJ-based Nonvolatile Logic-in-Memory Circuits: Future Prospects and Issues, EDAA, 2009.
- T. Hanyu, "Challenges of MTJ/MOS-Hybrid Logic-in-Memory Architecture", p. 117, 2013.
- A logic-in-memory Architecture for Large Scale Integrated Circuits, Q. Zhu et al. IEEE Int. Conf. Appl.-Specific Systems, p. 125, 2012.
Other Systems that Rely on Phase Transition
Other Systems that Rely on Phase Transition
- Solar Cells: Annealing Dependent Performance of Organic Solar Cells PDF
- Population biology: A series of papers on population biology by Jeff Gore PDF1, PDF2, PDF3, PDF4
- Reaction-diffusion model demonstrates spatial phase transition (self organization), just as the Landau theory relies on transition in energy
- Key papers are: A. M. Turing, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B. Biol Sci. 237, 37, 1952. S. Kondo and T. Mirura, Science, 329, 1616, 2010; A related theory based on graded Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) signaling (spatiotemporal morphogen gradient, R. Zeller et al., Nat. Rev. Genet. 10, 845, 2009.) also explains self-organization.
- Phase Transitions: Ricard Sole, Princeton University Press(2011-08-14)Book
Tutorial Materials
Tutorial Materials
- Piezoelectrics: http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/piezoelectrics/index.php
- Ferromagnetics: http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/ferromagnetic/index.php
- Ferromagnetics: http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/ferroelectrics/index.php
- Dielectrics: http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/dielectrics/index.php