ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the properties of Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) devices with respect to security applications and investigate novel applications of NEMS devices in implementing high-quality hardware security primitives with unique beneficial properties, which are difficult or impossible to achieve with alternative nanoscale devices. The major challenge in designing hardware-based security primitives with NEMS devices lies in understanding device behavior that can be utilized to build these primitives. NEMS switches have also been explored for high-density nonvolatile memory design. In parallel to the contact-mode NEMS switches and antifuses are dynamic NEMS that operate with their resonance modes. Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are integrated circuits that are prefabricated to be electrically programmed and configured in the field to serve individual users' different needs for digital circuits or systems. The FPGA is able to implement a new function on the chip after it is fabricated by the manufacturers. Antifuses are among the commonly used interconnect devices for FPGA.
