Category: Semiconductor
Semiconductor/IC
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Accounting for bondwire effects
It’s ISSCC week, and I got to see some interesting things, some of which go beyond interesting and possibly to significant. My focus was on…
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Missing LED Details
Two releases came out within a few days of each other that make very similar claims for very different reasons, with neither of them providing…
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A Diving Board, Water Drop, and Flashlight
Two gentlemen at the Institut d’Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie (IEMN) at the University of Lille in France, have demonstrating an interesting proof of…
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Engineering GaN Wafers
We talked before about wide bandgap materials such as GaN and SiC, but how are the base wafers for those materials created? Full wafers of…
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From Conductor to Insulator
Graphene is one of those materials under vigorous study for use in future electronics. A single honeycomb layer of carbon atoms, it features high electron…
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Establishing 3D IC Standards – Or Not
For those of you watching 3D IC advancements, there’s a discussion you might want to come join next week at DesignCon in Santa Clara. Bill…
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Speeding up FLASH
Most of what you hear about FLASH developments relates to capacity. But bandwidth is becoming more critical as we stream more data around – particularly…
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News from the Inside
We all know that process control is everything. And this is true more than ever before at each node. That is, if there is a…
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A Mysterious New Roll-On Material… or Two 2
Back when we looked at organic semiconductors, CMOS was a hard thing to do because the standard organic materials were generally p-type. Meaning that organic…
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Shock Value
The area of sensors is tightly intertwined with that of energy harvesting, since many sensors are in far-flung installations that are hard to power. Early…