Category: Semiconductor
Semiconductor/IC
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Laying n-Type Epi
Dopants used to be there just for their doping. But stress is now an important aspect as well, which means the dopant atoms must be…
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Interconnect @ 7 nm
IC interconnect is supposed to do two things: provided a path for electrons with as little resistance as possible and ensure that different paths don’t…
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Are Diamonds the Coolest?
It’s not every day you get to hold a diamond whose size is on the order of inches (or cm, for those of you that…
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Cleaning Up After You
This is something of a more off-the-beaten path story that I ran into at Semicon West. I talked with a German company called DAS that…
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What Is “Good” Yield?
In a recent piece on antenna tuning, I addressed circuit and MEMS approaches, and one of the advantages of circuits was said to be better…
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Could Mechanical Replace Electrical?
The MEMS Industry Group sponsored a webinar recently with a focus on switches. Literally; mechanical switches. Just really tiny ones made of a beam that…
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New Process Modeling Mechanism
Simulation is all about using the simplest possible modeling technique that gives enough accuracy to make the results useful. Simplicity typically speeds up simulation –…
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MEMS Measurement Standards
Consistent with a move towards standards in MEMS, NIST has released two reference chips that fabs can use to cross-check their measurement techniques. There are…