Economic Dependencies in Integrated Circuits

Characterization and modeling of pattern dependencies in copper interconnects for integrated circuits

Dielectrics in Integrated Circuits

This paper presents details on ultra thin (silicon dioxide and silicon nitride based composite structures) dielectrics that have the potential for meeting future device requirements. The increase in gate leakage current is a major problem for scaled conventional gate oxide in advanced device technology. Approaches to minimize this problems have been reviewed. Various Gate, Interlayer and DRAM d...

Polymers in Integrated Circuits

The last three decades have seen an explosive growth in silicon-based microelectronics. In search of flexible and low-cost substrates, organic semiconductorbased integrated circuits (ICs) have been suggested as an alternate to silicon ICs. The discovery that the electrical conductivity of some polymers can be increased from insulator to semiconductor range or metallic range by doping, has been ...

Integrated Circuits

A MEMS Capacitive Microphone Modelling for Integrated Circuits

In this paper, a model for MEMS capacitive microphone is presented for integrated circuits.  The microphone has a diaphragm thickness of 1 μm, 0.5 × 0.5 mm2 dimension, and an air gap of 1.0 μm. Using the analytical and simulation results, the important features of MEMS capacitive microphone such as pull-in voltage and sensitivity are obtained 3.8v and 6.916 mV/Pa, respectively while there is no...