Conjugated polymers in the nondoped and doped conducting state have an array of potential applications in the microelectronics industry. Conducting polymers are effective discharge layers as well as conducting resists in electron beam lithography, find applications in metallization (electrolytic and electroless) of plated through-holes for printed circuit board technology, provide excellent ele...

− Tunnel diode I-V characteristics were measured (Figure 1.) − Mathematical manipulations were then carried out on the measured data to roughly estimate the function that could be used to describe the I-V characteristic curves. − First model was proposed and revised until a rough match between the measured data and simulated data was obtained. − The final model is a voltage-controlled current s...

Traditionally the oorplan of a chip has been determined so as to minimize the total chip area and reduce the routing costs. Recently, it has been shown that the oorplan also a ects the yield of the chip. Consequently, it becomes desirable to consider the expected yield, in addition to the cost of routing, when selecting a oorplan. The goal of this paper is to study the two seemingly disjoint ob...

Over the last 50 years, the effects of cumulative radiation damage in microelectronics, and now nanoelectronics, have continually presented a design and assurance challenge to space flight missions. Feature sizes, that is, the size of the unit structure in microelectronics, has continually decreased, which has presented an added complexity to testing and assuring microelectronic devices. This p...

0017-9310/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2011.02.038 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 203 432 4384; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (A. G The challenge of effectively removing high heat flux from microelectronic chips may hinder future advancements in the semiconductor industry. Spray cooling is a promising solution to dissipate high heat ...

3D Nanoprinting In article number 2100222, Ryan D. Sochol and colleagues introduce strategies for nanoprinting graphene-laden materials to enable the integration of geometrically sophisticated microelectronics with microfluidic systems. Fully electrically conductive microstructures comprising reduced graphene oxide are additively manufactured directly inside enclosed microchannels, offering a u...

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Among the costs of technology are health hazards that face employees and consumers. New advances in the highly competitive field of microelectronics involve exposure to a variety of hazards such as gallium arsenide. Small high-technology industries appear unprepared to invest in health and safety. Although stray electromagnetic fields are not a new development, researchers are beginning to asse...

This paper investigates the influence of eddy current losses in multi-stranded bundle conductors employed in outrunner permanent magnet machines, by adopting an analytical model. The analytical model is based on a sub-domain field model that solves the two-dimensional magnetostatic problem using the separation of variables technique for each of the non-magnetically permeable machine sub-domains...