A technical paper titled “A Review of the Recent Developments in the Fabrication Processes of CMOS Image Sensors for Smartphones” was published by researchers at Texas A&M University. “CMOS Image ...

Toshiba Corporation has announced a new method for suppressing thermal instability and current leakage in MOS transistors that support advanced CMOS fabrication at 45-nanometer gate lengths and beyond ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) For nanoelectronics applications like single-electron devices to become practical, everyday items, they need to move from the highly individual and customized fabrication process ...

Imec realized an integrated poly-SiGe-based piezoresistive pressure sensor directly fabricated above 0.13 µm copper (Cu) -backend CMOS technology. This represents not only the first integrated ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) There is a lot of buzz in the computer industry about so-called three-dimensional (3D) chips, promising higher performance with lower energy consumption, and paving the way for ...

As author R. Jacob “Jake” Baker points out in the preface to this comprehensive volume, CMOS technology has dominated the fabrication of ICs for 25 years, and is likely to dominate it for another 25 ...

IBM revealed vertical FET CMOS logic at a sub-45nm gate pitch on bulk silicon wafers at the IEEE International electron devices meeting in San Francisco this week. IBM’s VTFET with a vertical channel ...

The transistor, an invention that heralded a new era in electronics, is the key component of practically all integrated circuits (ICs) and microprocessors. The point-contact transistor that Walter H.

Universities need to have access to technology for teaching their students who can be trained at least on the most up to date technology processes. Research Laboratories usually need to have high ...