Carnegie Mellon University

Publications

Pushing the Boundary of Quantum Advantage in Hard Combinatorial Optimization with Probabilistic Computers

S. Chowdhury, N. A. Aadit, A. Grimaldi, E. Raimondo, A. Raut, P. A. Lott, J. H. Mentink, M. M. Rams, F. Ricci-Tersenghi, M. Chiappini, L. S. Theogarajan, T. Srimani, G. Finocchio, M. Mohseni, and K. Y. Camsari, Nature Communications, 2025 (to appear).

Scalable connectivity for Ising machines: Dense to Sparse

M.M.H. Sajeeb, N.A. Aadit, S. Chowdhury, T. Wu, C. Smith, D. Chinmay, A. Raut, K.Y. Camsari, C. Delacour, and T. Srimani, Physical Review Applied (PRApplied), 2025

Probabilistic Bits using Perimeter-Gated Single Photon Avalanche Diodes

M.S. Sajal, T. Wu, M. Dandin, and T. Srimani, IEEE Electron Device Letters (EDL), 2025.

Overcoming Ambient Drift and Negative-Bias Temperature Instability in Foundry Carbon Nanotube Transistors

A.C. Yu, T. Srimani, and M. Shulaker, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (ACS AMI), 2025.

Omni 3D: BEOL-Compatible 3-D Logic With Omnipresent Power, Signal, and Clock

S. Choi, C. Gilardi, P. Gutwin, R.M. Radway, T. Srimani, and S. Mitra, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 2025.

Efficient Ultra-Dense 3D IC Power Delivery and Cooling Using 3D Thermal Scaffolding

D. Rich, T. Srimani, M. Malakoutian, S. Chowdhury, S. Mitra, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2024.

Barrier Booster for Remote Extension Doping and its DTCO in 1D & 2D FETs

C. Gilardi, G. Zeevi, S. Choi, S. Su, T. Hung, S. Li, N. Safron, Q. Lin, T. Srimani, M. Passlack, G. Pitner, E. Chen, I. Radu, H. P. Wong, S. Mitra, IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), December 2023.

N3XT 3D Technology Foundations and Their Lab-to-Fab: Omni 3D Logic, Logic+Memory, Ultra-Dense 3D, 3D Thermal Scaffolding

T. Srimani, A. Bechdolt, S. Choi, C. Gilardi, A. Kasperovich, S. Li, Q. Lin, M. Malakoutian, P. McEwen, R. M. Radway, D. Rich, A. C. Yu, S. Fuller, S. Achour, S. Chowdhury, H.-S. P. Wong, M. Shulaker, S. Mitra, IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), December 2023.

Foundry Monolithic 3D BEOL Transistor + Memory Stack: Iso-performance and Iso-footprint BEOL Carbon Nanotube FET+RRAM vs. FEOL Silicon FET+RRAM

T. Srimani, A.C. Yu, R. Radway, D. Rich, M. Nelson, S. Wong, D. Murphy, S. Fuller, G. Hills, S. Mitra, M. Shulaker, IEEE Symp. VLSI Technology, June 2023 (Technology Focus Session & Best Paper).

Ultra-dense 3D Physical Design enables New Architectural Design Points with Large Benefits

T. Srimani, R. Radway, K. Prabhu, J. Kim, et al., 2023 ACM/IEEE Design Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE).

Comprehensive Study on High Purity Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube Extraction

T. Srimani, A.C. Yu, J. Ding, et al., Advanced Electronic Materials, 2022.

Lift-off-Free Complementary Carbon Nanotube FETs Fabricated with Conventional Processing in a Silicon Foundry

T. Srimani, A.C. Yu, and M. Shulaker, IEEE VLSI-TSA, 2022, pp. 1-2.

Foundry Integration of Carbon Nanotube FETs at the 90 nm Node with New Lift-off-free Process

A.C. Yu, T. Srimani, IEEE EDL, 2022, 43(3), pp. 486-489.

Heterogeneous Integration of BEOL Logic and Memory in a Commercial Foundry: Multi-tier Complementary Carbon Nanotube Logic and Resistive RAM at a 130 nm node

T. Srimani, G. Hills, M. Bishop, C. Lau, et al., IEEE Symp. on VLSI Technology and Circuits, 2020, pp. 1-2.

Manufacturing Methodology for Carbon Nanotube Electronics

C. Lau, G. Hills, M. D. Bishop, T. Srimani, R. Ho, P. Kanhaiya, A. Yu, A. Amer, M. Chao, M. M. Shulaker, IEEE VLSI-TSA, 2020, pp. 134-135.

Advances in Carbon Nanotube Technologies: From Transistors to a RISC-V Microprocessor

G. Hills, C. Lau, T. Srimani, M.D. Bishop, P. Kanhaiya, R. Ho, A. Amer, M. M. Shulaker, ISPD, 2020, pp. 33-38.

Fabrication of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors in commercial silicon manufacturing facilities

M. D. Bishop, G. Hills, T. Srimani, C. Lau, et al., Nature Electronics, 2020, 3(8), pp. 492-501.

Modern microprocessor built from complementary carbon nanotube transistors

G. Hills, C. Lau, A. Wright, S. Fuller, M. D. Bishop, T. Srimani, P. Kanhaiya, et al., Nature, 2019, 572(7771), pp. 595-602.

Monolithic Three-Dimensional Imaging System: Carbon Nanotube Computing Circuitry Integrated Directly Over Silicon Imager

T. Srimani, G. Hills, C. Lau, M. Shulaker, IEEE Symp. on VLSI Tech., 2019, pp. T24-T25.

Asymmetric gating for reducing leakage current in carbon nanotube field-effect transistors

T. Srimani, G. Hills, X. Zhao, D. Antoniadis, J. A. del Alamo, M. M. Shulaker, APL, 2019, 115(6), pp. 063107.

30-nm Contacted Gate Pitch Back-Gate Carbon Nanotube FETs for Sub-3-nm Nodes

T. Srimani, G. Hills, M. D. Bishop, M.M. Shulaker, IEEE TNANO, 2018, 18, pp. 132-138.

Tunable n-type doping of carbon nanotubes through engineered atomic layer deposition HfOX films

C. Lau, G. Hills, M. D. Bishop, T. Srimani, A. Yu, M. M. Shulaker, ACS Nano, 2018, 12(11), pp. 10924-10931.

Negative capacitance carbon nanotube FETs

T. Srimani, G. Hills, M.D. Bishop, IEEE EDL, 2017, 39(2), pp. 304-307.

Robust and high sensitivity biosensor using injection locked spin torque nano-oscillators

T. Srimani, B. Manna, A.K. Mukhopadhyay, K. Roy, M. Sharad, In 2016 IEEE DRC, pp. 1-2.

Presentations

Towards Multi-Chip Distributed Accelerators for Probabilistic Algorithms

T. SrimaniDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India (Aug 2025).

Ultra-dense 3D Heterogeneous Integration of Logic and Memory and their Lab-to-Fab

T. SrimaniIEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO) (July 2025).

NanoSystems: Lab-to-fab

T. Srimani, Semiconductors: Opportunities and Challenges, INL, Braga Portugal (Mar 2025).

The next leap in computing systems: powered by beyond-silicon technologies and their lab-to-fab

T. Srimani, ECE Graduate Seminar Series, Carnegie Mellon University (Sep 2024).

Next-generation Probabilistic Computing Hardware with 3D MOSAICs, Illusion Scale-up, and Co-design

T. Srimani, DOE ASCR Analog Computing for Science Workshop, Bethesda, Maryland (Sep 2024).

NanoSystems: Lab-to-fab and Co-design

T. Srimani, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India (Aug 2024).

The next leap in computing systems: powered by beyond-silicon technologies and their lab-to-fab

T. Srimani, Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (Aug 2024).

Foundry Monolithic 3D Logic+Memory Stack unlocks Large IC Architectural Benefits

T. Srimani, 3D Integration Workshop, IEEE DATE Conference (Mar 2024).

New Foundry Monolithic 3D Transistor+Memory Unlocks Large Benefits vs. Conventional Silicon Transistor+Memory within the Same Footprint

T. Srimani, R.M. Radway, SystemX Fall Conference, Stanford University (Nov 2023).

New Foundry Monolithic 3D BEOL Transistor+Memory Stack Unlocks Large IC Architectural Benefits Within the Same Design Footprint at the Same Technology Node

T. Srimani, IEEE/ACM ICCAD SLIP Workshop, San Francisco, USA (Nov 2023).

NanoSystems: Lab to Fab

T. Srimani, IEEE IISc Bangalore, Bangalore, India (Jul 2023).

NanoSystems: Lab to Fab

T. Srimani, IEEE Leuven/MICAS, KU Leuven (Apr 2023).

Talk is Cheap: It Takes Money to Ride the Train

T. Srimani, M. Shulaker, 6.nano seminar series, EECS, MIT (Nov 2022).

Foundry Monolithic 3D Technology Enables New Architectural Design Points with Large Benefits

T. Srimani, R.M. Radway, SystemX Fall Conference, Stanford University (Nov 2022).

NanoSystems: Lab to Fab

T. Srimani, ECE Graduate Seminar Series, Carnegie Mellon University (Nov 2022).

The Future of Hardware Technologies for Computing: N3XT 3D MOSAIC, Illusion Scaleup, Co-Design

T. Srimani, R.M. Radway, H.-S.P. Wong, S. Mitra, TCVLSI newsletter (May 2022).

Nanosystems for Energy-Efficient Computing using Carbon Nanotube FETs and Monolithic 3D Integration

T. Srimani, 3D Integration Workshop, IEEE DATE Conference (Mar 2022).

Commercial Opportunities for RRAM, CNTs, and Monolithic 3D in the US

T. Srimani, CICS Meeting, MTL, MIT (Nov 2021).

Beyond-Silicon Technologies for Beyond-Silicon Applications

T. Srimani, CICS Meeting, MTL, MIT (May 2021).

Establishing Emerging Nanotechnologies to Supplement Silicon CMOS within Commercial Fabs and Foundries

T. Srimani, CICS Meeting, MTL, MIT (May 2020).

Back Gate Transistors for Highly Scaled and Energy Efficient Digital Electronics

T. Srimani, Best Poster, Masterworks, EECS, MIT (Apr 2018).

Energy-efficient Digital VLSI using Carbon Nanotube Transistors

T. Srimani, Department of E&ECE, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India (Mar 2018).

Back Gate Transistors for Highly Scaled and Energy Efficient Digital Electronics

T. Srimani, MTL Annual Research Conference, MIT (Feb 2018).

Beyond silicon technologies and heterogeneous integration

T. Srimani, Guest Lecture, 6.374, Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuits, MIT (Nov 2017).

Electronics and optoelectronics of a novel transition metal dichalcogenide

T. Srimani, L. Chen, Y. Ma, C. Zhou, Poster, Indian National Science Academy, Delhi (Aug 2015).

Patents

Back-gate field-effect transistors and methods for making the same

M. Shulaker, T. Srimani, S. Fuller, Y. Stein, D. Murphy, U.S. Patent 11626486, issued April 11, 2023.