After many years as a hypothetical possibility, 3D integrated circuits (3D IC) stacking has emerged as a potential key enabler for maintaining semiconductor performance trends. Implementing 3D, however, will almost certainly require development of through-silicon vias (TSVs), which in the past few years have been elevated by the semiconductor industry to the status of a crucial mainstream techn...

1 Abstract – Recore Systems provides semiconductor IP solutions for programmable systems-on-chip. The coarse-grained reconfigurable technology of Recore promises to solve the flexibility, performance, power consumption and cost requirements of semiconductor businesses. In this paper, the Montium DSP core is introduced and an example is given of how this core can be used in programmable systems-...

Semiconductor manufacturing process variations are worsening with continued reduction in transistor feature sizes. However, technology scaling is the engine driving the semiconductor industry and must continue. When variations worsen to the point that they can no longer be addressed solely at the device and circuit levels, the next logical step is to develop variation-tolerant

moving towards nanometer scales, quantum-dot cellular automata (qca) technology emerged as a novel solution, which can be a suitable replacement for complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (cmos) technology. the 3-input majority function and inverter gate are fundamental gates in the qca technology, which all logical functions are produced based on them. like cmos technology, making the basic c...

The challenges to extending the delivered computing capabilities of semiconductor technology through Moore's Law, while manageable in the short term, may prove difficult or possibly impractical in the long term. Even now, the complex interplay of power and performance is resulting in significant changes in previous trends. Clock rates of commodity microprocessors are flattening even as multi-co...

The applications of molecular surface chemistry in heterogeneous catalyst technology, semiconductor-based technology, medical technology, anticorrosion and lubricant technology, and nanotechnology are highlighted in this perspective. The evolution of surface chemistry at the molecular level is reviewed, and the key roles of surface instrumentation developments for in situ studies of the gas-sol...

   Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology has been the industry standard to implement Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) devices for the last two decades. Due to the consequences of miniaturization of such devices (i.e. increasing switching speeds, increasing complexity and decreasing power consumption), it is essential to replace them with a new technology. Quantum-dot c...

Sensor technology is one of the most significant technology for the future with a constantly growing number of applications, ranging from toxic gas detection, manufacturing process monitoring to medical diagnosis and health monitoring. Among the different existing sensor technologies, the semiconductor sensors are most attractive for their high sensitivity, small size and light-weight construct...

Semiconductor heterogeneous photocatalysis, the subject of this review, is a versatile, low-cost and environmentally benign treatment technology for a host of pollutants. These may be of biological, organic and inorganic in origin within water and air. The efficient and successful application of photocatalysis demands that the pollutant, the catalyst and source of illumination are in close prox...