We describe the first set of chips to be designed and manufactured with the specific objective of use in an education environment. The chips are the result of a collaboration between educators and industry and introduce students to complex microelectronics technology by presenting simple building blocks fabricated using standard semiconductor manufacturing techniques. Current usage indicates th...

The aircraft industry is an advanced, complex technological industry that has a strong impact on other industries and, for the nation as a whole, it is a strategically important industry for strengthening international competitiveness through technological superiority. Developed countries throughout the world have been promoting the aircraft industry as an engine of continuous growth and develo...

As high technology product market becomes more dynamic and competitive, chip manufacturers need to bring products to customers in short periods of time. As a result, semiconductor fabrication plants regularly contain lots with priority status. These lots have several unique characteristics compared to other production lots, both in terms of lot transport and scheduling on tools. These lots cons...

The successful construction of evolved object designs is challenging. Physics simulators are a means to replicate the real world virtually, but phenomena such as the fabrication gap prevent certain optimized blue prints from being constructed in the real world. To circumvent this problem, we propose removing the virtual aspect from object design optimization and evolve objects solely in the phy...

In this paper, we present a comparison of five dispatching rules that aim to reduce the mean and the variance of cycle times. The performance of the dispatch rules is evaluated using simulation results for two large semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities. The results show that which dispatch rule achieves the best results depends on the fab, on the load of the fab and on the product.

This paper describes the use of a microsphere sensor technology that allows simple fabrication of vapor sensor arrays with reproducible response patterns. Microsphere sensor fabrication protocols are uncomplicated and yield billions of highly reproducible sensors. Microsphere sensor arrays combined with a generalized Whitney-Mann-Wilcoxen (GWMW) classifier were used to discriminate between the ...

The maximum entropy method (MEM) is widely used in research fields such as linguistics, meteorology, physics, and chemistry. Recently, MEM application has become a subject of interest in the semiconductor engineering field, in which devices utilize very thin films composed of many materials. For thin film fabrication, it is essential to thoroughly understand atomic-scale structures, internal fi...