Modern Integrated Circuits: The Ultimate Engineered Material

Radiation Testing and Evaluation Issues for Modern Integrated Circuits

Changes in modern integrated circuit (IC) technologies have modified the way we approach and conduct radiation tolerance and testing of electronics. These changes include scaling of geometries, new materials, new packaging technologies, and overall speed and device complexity challenges. In this short course section, we will identify and discuss these issues as they impact radiation testing, mo...

Integrated Circuits

Designer Genes and Engineered Circuits

The recent design andassembly of the first synthetic eukaryotic chromosome (Annaluru et al., 2014) inspires great confidence in our burgeoning ability to engineer life with desired properties and for new purposes. The creation, called synIII (it was modeled on Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosome III), is matched in scale only by previous efforts in bacteria, and its successful assembly issues a...

An Electrically Engineered Meta - Material

Recent developments in artificially engineered metamaterials have enabled the creation of electromagnetic materials with properties not found in nature. Much work has centered on designing split ring resonators (SRR's) and electrical coupled LC resonators (ELC's) to create bulk mediums with desired effective permittivity and permeability. Recent work has demonstrated the feasibility of developi...

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...