BIOGRAPHY

Assoc. Prof. Zhou Xing has been with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering since he joined NTU in 1992. He obtained his BEng degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University in 1983, MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester in 1987 and 1990, respectively. His past research interests include Monte Carlo simulation of photocarrier transport and ultrafast phenomena as well as mixed-mode circuit simulation and CAD tool development. His recent research focuses on nanoscale CMOS compact model development. His research group has been developing a unified core model for nanoscale bulk, SOI, double-gate, nanowire CMOS, as well as III-V HEMTs. He has given more than 140 IEEE EDS distinguished lectures and invited talks at various universities as well as industry and research institutions. He is the founding chair for the Workshop on Compact Modeling (WCM) in association with the NSTI Nanotechnology Conference since 2002. Dr. Zhou was an editor for the IEEE Electron Device Letters during 2007–2016, a guest Editor-in-Chief for the special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (Feb. 2014) on compact modeling of emerging devices, and a member of the Modeling & Simulation subcommittee for IEDM (2016, 2017). He has been an EDS distinguished lecturer since 2000.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Semiconductor device physics
• Modeling
• Simulation
• Technology CAD
• Mixed-signal CAD
• Monte Carlo
• Ultrafast phenomena

His current research works focus on nanoscale compact model development for bulk/SOI/multigate/nanowire CMOS.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Compact Modeling for Novel III-V Devices
• Device Characterization and Process-Design-Kit (PDK) Establishment
• Optical Model and Simulation Tool for Poly-Si Thin-Film On Textured Glass (CERP grant title: Advanced Poly-Silicon Thin-Film Solar Cells and Modules- Application of Solid Phase Crystallization)
• Optical Modeling and Analysis of Nano-structured Glass Architectures (CERP Title: Advanced Superstrates for Micromorph Silicon Solar Cells)
• SOI Model Validation and Characterization

CURRENT GRANTS

• Advanced ReRAM Technology For Embedded Systems
• Scalable Compact Model for High-frequency GaN-HEMTs/Si-MOSFETs

KEY PUBLICATIONS

1. A. Ajaykumar, X. Zhou, and S. B. Chiah. (2017). A New Interpretation for the Anomalous Channel-Length Dependence of Low-Frequency Noise in Quasi-Ballistic Transistors. IEEE Electron Device Letters, 38(8), 1113–1116.
2. A. Ajaykumar, X. Zhou, S. B. Chiah, and B. Syamal. (2017). Impact of Subthreshold Carrier Statistics on the Low-Frequency Noise in MOSFETs. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 64(4), 1702–1707.
3. N. Ge, J. H. Yoon, M. Hu, E. J. Merced-Grafals, N. Davila, J. P. Strachan, Z. Li, H. Holder, Q. Xia, R. S. Williams, X. Zhou, and J. J. Yang. (2017). An efficient analog Hamming distance comparator realized with a unipolar memristor array: a showcase of physical computing. Scientific Reports, 6, 40135.
4. A. Ajaykumar, X. Zhou, S. B. Chiah, and B. Syamal. (2016). Quasi-2D Surface-Potential-Based Critical Length for Drift-Diffusion to Quasi-Ballistic Transport. IEEE Electron Device Letters, 37(8), 1051–1054.
5. B. Syamal, X. Zhou, S. B. Chiah, M. J. Anand, S. Arulkumaran and G. I. Ng. (2016). A Comprehensive Compact Model for GaN HEMTs, Including Quasi-Steady-State and Transient Trap-Charge Effects. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 63(4), 1478.