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T1 - Simulation of Si nanowire quantum-dot devices for authentication
AU - Carrillo-Nunez, H.
AU - Wang, C.
AU - Asenov, A.
AU - Young, R.
AU - Georgiev, V.
N1 - Export Date: 29 April 2020
PY - 2019/4/1
Y1 - 2019/4/1
N2 - This paper shows quantum mechanical simulations of quantum-dots (QDs) embedded within Si nanowires. To capture the effect of statistical sources of variability, we simulated 60 wires with differing numbers and positions of dopants, not only in the quantum dot but also at the source and the drain regions also. Our work shows that the specific number of dopants and their positions give rise to unique current-voltage characteristics, providing unique signatures for use as the basis of physical unclonable functions (PUFs). Adoption of hardware security devices for authentication is on the rise; the technology proposed here delivers a practical means to extract fingerprints from quantum confined systems that could provide robust security to silicon electronics. © 2019 IEEE.
AB - This paper shows quantum mechanical simulations of quantum-dots (QDs) embedded within Si nanowires. To capture the effect of statistical sources of variability, we simulated 60 wires with differing numbers and positions of dopants, not only in the quantum dot but also at the source and the drain regions also. Our work shows that the specific number of dopants and their positions give rise to unique current-voltage characteristics, providing unique signatures for use as the basis of physical unclonable functions (PUFs). Adoption of hardware security devices for authentication is on the rise; the technology proposed here delivers a practical means to extract fingerprints from quantum confined systems that could provide robust security to silicon electronics. © 2019 IEEE.
KW - Physical Unclonable Function
KW - quantum mechanical simulations
KW - resonant tunneling quantum-dots
KW - Authentication
KW - Cryptography
KW - Current voltage characteristics
KW - Hardware security
KW - Nanocrystals
KW - Nanowires
KW - Network security
KW - Drain region
KW - Quantum confined systems
KW - Quantum dot devices
KW - Quantum mechanical simulations
KW - Robust security
KW - Si nanowire
KW - Silicon electronics
KW - Statistical sources
KW - Semiconductor quantum dots
U2 - 10.1109/EUROSOI-ULIS45800.2019.9041864
DO - 10.1109/EUROSOI-ULIS45800.2019.9041864
M3 - Conference paper
T2 - 2019 Joint International EUROSOI Workshop and International Conference on Ultimate Integration on Silicon
Y2 - 1 April 2019 through 3 April 2019
ER -