Semiconductor photonic devices such as laser diodes, light-emitting diodes, optical waveguides, directional couplers, electrooptic modulators, and photodetectors have important applications in lightwave technology systems. To understand the physics and the operational characteristics of these photonic devices, we have to understand the fundamental principles. In this chapter, we review some of ...

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Superconductor films on semiconductor substrates have drawn much attention recently since the derived superconductor-based electronics have been shown to be promising for future data processing and storage technologies. By growing atomically uniform single-crystal epitaxial Pb films of several nanometers thick on Si wafers to form a sharp superconductor-semiconductor heterojunction, we have obt...

F ar from Silicon Valley, amid the green and rolling hills of North Carolina, is an organization that propels the multibillion dollar semiconductor industry. It's one of the few organizations to get fierce competitors like Intel, Motorola, Texas Instruments, and IBM to the same table, let alone cooperate. These companies and many others contribute fees of about $37 million annually to fund futu...

Technology advancement that can provide new solutions and enable augmented capabilities to complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS)-based technology, such as active and adaptive interaction between machine and human/ambient, is highly desired. Piezotronic nanodevices and integrated systems exhibit potential in achieving these application goals. Utilizing the gating effect of piezopotentia...

Contactless measurement of important semiconductor parameters has become a popular trend of current semiconductor technology. Here we will describe an improved version of radio frequency photoconductive decay (RFPCD) operating in the ultra-high frequency (UHF) region. This work will show that the improved technique is capable of measuring samples ranging in size from submicron thin films to lar...

In semiconductor lithography, glass masks are illuminated with deep UV laser light and their image is reduced through a lens onto the substrate to define circuitry. As feature sizes are pushed towards 100 nm and smaller, lithography systems and masks are becoming increasingly complex and costly (~$1 million per mask set). In addition, the delay in obtaining a mask set, with complex optical-prox...

drain current degradation in 0.35 m n-type lateral diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor transistors J. R. Lee, Jone F. Chen, Kuo-Ming Wu, C. M. Liu, and S. L. Hsu Institute of Microelectronics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Advanced Optoelectronic Technology Center, National Cheng Kung University, No. 1 University Road, Tainan 70101, Taiwan Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, L...

Luminous! Centre of Excellence for Semiconductor Lighting and Displays, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798 Singapore, Singapore Semiconductor Lighting Technology Research and Development Center, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University...