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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"silicon technology"”.
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Nanostructuring with diblock copolymers
To date silicon technology remains the predominant tool for semiconductor engineering and device fabrication. In future, scalable nanotechnologies will complement current silicon technology and promise to extend the functionality of today’s semiconductor devices. In keeping up with the demands of …
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Toward accurate and large-scale silicon photonics
Silicon photonics, emerging from the interface of silicon technology and photonic technology, is expected to inherit the incredible integration ability of silicon technology that has boomed the microelectronic industry for half a century, as well as the unparalleled communication capability of …
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Millimeter-Wave Harmonically-Tuned Silicon Power Amplifiers for High Efficiency
… harmonic tuning approach for mm-wave silicon PAs. This research addresses the challenges and limitations of the high efficiency inverse-Class-F PAs for mm-wave silicon technology. This work proposes different load networks to mitigate the challenges which are verified with …
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Novel dopants for n-type doping of electron transport materials: cationic dyes and their bases
The history of silicon technology showed that controlled doping was a key step for the realization of e®ective, stable and reproducible devices. When the conduction type was no longer determined by impurities but could be controlled by doping, the breakthrough of classical microelectronics became …
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A high resolution programmable thermal test chip
As silicon technology continues to scale, power densities in integrated circuits are rising, driving the need for more accurate and fine-grained thermal characterization methods. While numerical simulation remains a powerful tool for predicting on-chip temperature distributions, its accuracy …
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CMoS lab-on-a-chip devices for individual cell biology
… be pursued thanks to the continous advances in silicon technology. LOACs are miniaturized devices whose aim is to perform in a more efficient way specific chemical or biological analysis protocols which are usually carried out with traditional laboratory equipment. In this application area, CMOS …
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Fully Integrated Data and Power Transfer Systems with Galvanic Isolation
… at the RF ADC by exploiting STMicroelectronics technology platforms providing on chip galvanic isolation. This technology was previously addressed to the implementation of isolated data transfer and it is currently used for mass production. In this context, the principal purpose of my work was …
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Digital phase tightening for improved spatial resolution in millimeter-wave imaging systems
… radar and concealed weapons detection. By using silicon technology, the integration of millimeter-wave circuits can reach new levels that were previously impossible. This thesis discusses the challenge and design of a mm-wave imaging system using a technique called digital phase tightening for …
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High-speed silicon electro-optic modulator for electronic photonic integrated circuits
… integrated circuits (EPIC) based on silicon technology critically depends on the availability of CMOS-compatible high-speed modulators that enable the interaction of electronic and optical signals. This thesis investigates electrically driven Mach-Zehnder modulators based on …
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Through-substrate interconnects for 3-D integration and RF systems
Interconnects on silicon chips are fabricated on the top surface with an ever-increasing number of metal layers necessary to just meet performance needs. While devices have scaled according to Moore's law, interconnects have lagged. As metal line widths shrink and line lengths increase, parasitic …
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Development of Compound Semiconductor FET and Integrated Low -Voltage RF MEMS Switch Technology for Reconfigurable MMIC Applications
… due to material advantages over established silicon technology. This work presents results from three different compound semiconductor device technologies that each have appealing characteristics for various uses: the ion-implanted GaAs MESFET, the AlGaN/GaN HEMT, and the RF MEMS switch. The …
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Software orchestration of instruction level parallelism on tiled processor architectures
Projection from silicon technology is that while transistor budget will continue to blossom according to Moore's law, latency from global wires will severely limit the ability to scale centralized structures at high frequencies. A tiled processor architecture (TPA) eliminates long wires from its …
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A Compact Three-Phase Multi-stage EMI Filter with Compensated Parasitic-Component Effects
… frequencies compared to the traditional silicon technology. To comply with the stringent conducted emission requirements, EMI filters are adopted to attenuate the high frequency common mode (CM) and differential mode (DM) noise through the propagation path. However, self and mutual …
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Commercialization of germanium based nanocrystal memory
… time, and yet is compatible with conventional silicon technology. This thesis provides an analysis of competing technologies, an intellectual property analysis, costs modeling as well as ways to improve nanocrystal memories in order to compete with other forms of emerging technologies to …
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Simulation of graphene electronic devices
… and, as it is planar, it is compatible with silicon technology. When patterned into nanoribbons graphene can be made into regions that are semiconducting or conducting and even into entire circuits. Graphene nanoribbons can also be used to form the channel of a MOSFET. This thesis describes …
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Probing two-dimensional magnetic phenomena with diamond quantum microscopy
… character- isation of novel materials for post-silicon technology. The development of high-density memory devices based on novel magnetic materials has promising aspects such as un- matched data retention and low power consumption. However, this technology is still in its early stages and …
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A survey of thin-film solar photovoltaic industry & technologies
A new type of solar cell technology using so-called thin-film solar photovoltaic material has the potential to make a great impact on our lives. Because it uses very little or no silicon at all, thin- film (TF) solar technology promises to reduce the cost of solar modules to a level where solar …
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Process based cost modeling of emerging optoelectronic interconnects : implications for material platform choice
… the past few years have given new strength to a silicon-technology platform for optoelectronics. The possibility of extending a mature and high-yield Si CMOS manufacturing platform of the electronic industry into the optical domain is an area of intensive interest. Introducing new photonic …
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