Semiconductors with a moderate bandgap have enabled modern electronic device technology, and the current scaling trends down to nanometer scale have introduced two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. The bandgap of a semiconductor has been an intrinsic property independent of the environments and determined fundamental semiconductor device characteristics. In contrast to bulk semiconductors, we de...

Conventional lithography-based VLSI design technology deployed to optimize low-powered-computing and higher scale integration of semiconductor components. However, this downscaling trend confronts serious challenges of tunneling and leakage current increment to the Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) technology on nanoscale regimes. To resolve the physical restriction of the CMOS, Qu...

Semiconductor industry is capital intensive in which capacity utilization significantly affect the capital effectiveness and profitability of semiconductor manufacturing companies. Thus, demand forecasting provides critical input to support the decisions of capacity planning and the associated capital investments for capacity expansion that require long lead-time. However, the involved uncertai...

Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) are an emerging technology and a possible alternative for faster speed, smaller size, and low power consumption than semiconductor transistor based technologies. Previously, adder designs based on conventional designs were examined for implementation with QCA technology. This paper utilizes the QCA characteristics to design a fault-tolerant adder that is more...

While the area of process automation in semiconductor manufacturing has many issues in common with process automation and enactment in business processes, the nature of the semiconductor manufacturing process introduces a number of challenging new issues. Among these issues is the need to not only automate the process but also to continuously control and optimize it. Furthermore the semantics o...

A short overview of the technology and physics of semiconductor quantum dots is given. Different methods of creation of quantum dots and mechanisms of carrier confinements are described. The fundamental properties of these systems are discussed including current attempts for applications in new ultra-small opto-electronic semiconductor devices.

Wireless communication systems will be one of the biggest drivers of semiconductor products over the next decade. This paper provides an overview of current developments in this explosive market, looks at future product requirements and relates those needs with technology projections. Three key technologies are discussed: basic semiconductor processes, digital signal processing, and RF systems ...

Reconfigurable architectures find the middle ground between flexibility and efficiency by limiting their flexibility to a particular algorithm domain. A domain specific reconfigurable architecture is both efficient and flexible. Recore Systems provides semiconductor IP solutions for programmable systems-on-chip. The coarse-grained reconfigurable technology of Recore promises to solve the flexib...

Reconfigurable architectures find the middle ground between flexibility and efficiency by limiting their flexibility to a particular algorithm domain. A domain specific reconfigurable architecture is both efficient and flexible. Recore Systems provides semiconductor IP solutions for programmable systems-on-chip. The coarse-grained reconfigurable technology of Recore promises to solve the flexib...

School of Semiconductor and Chemical Engineering, Semiconductor Physics Research Center (SPRC), Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 561-756, Korea Measurement and Analysis Division, National Nanofab Center (NNFC), Daejeon 305-343, Korea Department of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Dankook University, Cheongan 330-714, Korea Department of BIN Fusion Technology, Chonbuk National Univ...