Applications -- Social, Economic, and Ethical Implications of Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing -- Integrated Microelectronics for Smart Textiles -- Ambient Intelligence Research in HomeLab: Engineering the User Experience -- How Ambient Intelligence will Improve Habitability and Energy Efficiency in Buildings -- System Design and Architecture -- Networked Infomechanical Systems (NI…
Sensor Design -- Measurement System -- Characterization -- Applications -- Conclusions and Outlook.This monograph is intended for wire bonding and flip-chip packaging professionals and for scientists and engineers working in the field of mechanical microsensors. New measurement technologies are introduced that allow in situ and real-time examination of physical processes during the packaging pr…
Applications and Devices -- MEMS-Based Thin Film and Resonant Chemical Sensors -- Microactuators Based on Thin Films -- Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers and Acoustic Sensors Based on Piezoelectric Thin Films -- Thick-Film Piezoelectric and Magnetostrictive Devices -- Micromachined Infrared Detectors Based on Pyroelectric Thin Films -- RF Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators and Filters -- High Fre…
Overview of CCD -- CCD Imaging in the Ultraviolet (UV) Regime -- Silicon -- Silicon Dioxide -- Si-SiO2 Interface -- General Effects of Radiation -- Effects of Radiation on CCDs -- UV-Induced Effects in Si -- UV Laser Induced Effects in SiO2 -- UV Laser Induced Effects at the Si-SiO2 Interface -- CCD Measurements at 157nm -- Design Optimizations for Future Research -- Concluding Remarks.As the d…
Non-Volatile Memory Design -- Process Aspects -- The MOSFET Transistor and the Memory Cell -- Passive Components -- Fundamental Circuit Blocks -- Layout -- The Organization of the Memory Array -- The Input Buffer -- Decoders -- Boost -- Synchronization Circuits -- Reading Circuits -- Multilevel Read -- Program and Erase Algorithms -- Circuits Used in Program and Erase Operations -- High-Voltage…
Currently employed at STMicroelectronics, Transactional-Level Modeling (TLM) puts forward a novel SoC design methodology beyond RTL with measured improvements of productivity and first time silicon success. The SystemC consortium has published the official TLM development kit in May 2005 to standardize this modeling technique. The library is flexible enough to model components and systems at ma…
Technology and Economics -- High Temperature Electronics - Cluster Effects -- On the Evolution of SOI Materials and Devices -- SOI Technology as a Basis for Microphotonic-Microelectronic Integrated Devices -- SOI Material Technologies -- Smart Cut Technology: The Path for Advanced SOI Substrates -- Porous Silicon Based SOI: History and Prospects -- Achievement of SiGe-on-Insulator Technology --…
Imaging Magnetic Microspectroscopy -- Study of Ferromagnet-Antiferromagnet Interfaces Using X-Ray PEEM -- Time Domain Optical Imaging of Ferromagnetodynamics -- Lorentz Microscopy -- Electron Holography of Magnetic Nanostructures -- SPLEEM -- SEMPA Studies of Thin Films, Structures, and Exchange Coupled Layers -- Spin-SEM of Storage Media -- High Resolution Magnetic Imaging by Local Tunneling M…
Fundamentals of Chemical Sensing -- Microtechnology for Chemical Sensors -- Microfabricated Chemical Sensors -- CMOS Platform Technology for Chemical Sensors -- Outlook and Future Developments.This book, "Integrated Chemical Microsensor Systems in CMOS Technology", provides a comprehensive treatment of the highly interdisciplinary field of CMOS chemical microsensor systems. It is targeted at st…
Invited Papers -- Nanostructured Materials Based Next Generation Devices and Sensors -- Metal-Induced Crystallization — An Advanced Technology for Producing Polycrystalline Si Films on Foreign Substrates -- Electronic Characterisation and Modelling of Disordered Semiconductors -- Spectroscopy of Rare Earth Ions -- Nanostructured and Advanced Materials for Bio-Applications -- Transmission Elec…