Historical Development -- Quantum Mechanical Aspects -- Nanodefects -- Nanolayers -- Nanoparticles -- Selected Solid States with Nanocrystalline Structures -- Nanostructuring -- Extension of Conventional Devices by Nanotechniques -- Innovative Electronic Devices Based on Nanostructures.This book provides a concise and didactically structured presentation of nanotechnology as matters stand. Both…
Design Flow Overview -- Simulation Tools in System Design -- System Level Modeling -- VHDL-AMS for Block Level Simulation -- to VHDL-AMS -- Selected RF Blocks in VHDL-AMS -- Macromodeling in VHDL-AMS -- Complex Example: WLAN Receiver -- Modeling of Analog Blocks in Verilog-A -- Characterization for Bottom-Up Verification -- Advanced Methods for Overall System Specification and Validation.Modern…
Device Modeling for Digital Circuits -- Current-Mode Digital Circuits -- Design Methodologies for Complex Current-Mode Logic Gates -- Modeling of Bipolar Current-Mode Gates -- Optimized Design of Bipolar Current-Mode Gates -- Modeling of MOS Current-Mode Gates -- Optimized Design of MOS Current-Mode Gates -- Applications and Remarks on Current-Mode Digital Circuits.Current-Mode digital circuits…
Microrheology -- Micron-Resolution Particle Image Velocimetry -- Electrokinetic Flow Diagnostics -- Micro- and Nano-Scale Diagnostic Techniques for Thermometry and Thermal Imaging of Microelectronic and Data Storage Devices -- Nanoscale Mechanical Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes -- Applications of the Piezoelectric Quartz Crystal Microbalance for Microdevice Development.Microscale Diagnost…
Recent Advances in Thin-film Deposition -- Molecular-beam Deposition of High-k Gate Dielectrics for Advanced CMOS -- LEPECVD — A Production Technique for SiGe MOSFETs and MODFETs -- Thin-film Engineering by Atomic-layer Deposition for Ultra-scaled and Novel Devices -- Atomic-layer Deposited Barrier and Seed Layers for Interconnects -- Copper CVD for Conformal Ultrathin-film Deposition -- Push…
Introduction: Matching analysis. Importance for circuit design. State of the art. Research objectives. Outline of this book -- Measurement and Modeling of Mismatch. Measurement setup. Experimental setup. Modeling of mismatch in the drain current. Width and length dependence. Example: Yield of a current-steering D/A converter. Conclusions -- Parameter Extraction. Extraction methods. Experimental…
Low-Noise Amplifiers in CMOS Wireless Receivers -- ESD Protection in CMOS -- Detailed Study of the Common-Source LNA with Inductive Degeneration -- RF-ESD Co-Design for CMOS LNA's -- Integrated CMOS Low-Noise Amplifiers -- Conclusions.LNA-ESD Co-Design for Fully Integrated CMOS Wireless Receivers fits in the quest for complete CMOS integration of wireless receiver front-ends. With a combined di…
Testing Concepts -- Design Flow -- Design for Test -- Boundary Scan -- SOC Design for Testability -- System Modeling -- Test Conflicts -- Test Power Dissipation -- Test Access Mechanism -- Test Scheduling -- SOC Test Applications -- A Reconfigurable Power-Conscious Core Wrapper and its Application to System-on-Chip Test Scheduling -- An Integrated Framework for the Design and Optimization of SO…
Part I: Introduction and Literature Survey: Introduction -- Part II: Continuous-time Systems: Control and Luenberger-type Filtering; General Filtering; Tracking Control; Static Output-feedback; Stochastic Passivity -- Part III: Discrete-time Systems: Control and Luenberger-type Filtering; General Filtering; Tracking Control; Static Output-feedback -- Part IV: Applications: Systems with State-mu…
The Possibility of High Frequency Functional Ceramics Substrate -- Material technology -- Ceramic material -- Conducting material -- Resistor materials and high K dielectric materials -- Process technology -- Powder preparation and mixing -- Casting -- Printing and laminating -- Cofiring -- Reliability -- Future of LTCCs.In recent years, Low Temperature Cofired Ceramics (LTCC) have become an at…