Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Mar. 4


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=410 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Wafer-Level Test Infrastructure for Higher Parallel Wafer Level Testing of SoC


A new technical paper titled "Design and Implementation of Test Infrastructure for Higher Parallel Wafer Level Testing of System-on-Chip" was published by researchers at Inha University and Teradyne. Abstract "Semiconductor companies have been striving to reduce their manufacturing costs. High parallelism is a key factor in reducing costs during wafer-level testing. Wafer testing is conduct... » read more

Research Bits: Dec. 18


Stacking 2D layers for AI processing Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis, MIT, Yonsei University, Inha University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Notre Dame demonstrated monolithic 3D integration of layered 2D material, creating a novel AI processing hardware that integrates sensing, signal processing, and AI computing functions into a single chip. Th... » read more

Technical Paper Round-Up: July 26


New technical papers added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library this week. [table id=41 /] Semiconductor Engineering is in the process of building this library of research papers. Please send suggestions (via comments section below) for what else you’d like us to incorporate. If you have research papers you are trying to promote, we will review them to see if they are a good fit f... » read more

Split-Gate FETs (SG-FETs)


This technical paper titled "Longitudinal and latitudinal split-gate field-effect transistors for NAND and NOR logic circuit applications" was published by researchers at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Inha University (South Korea) and Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul. Abstract "Two-dimensional (2D) materials have been extensively adopted in variou... » read more

New Materials Open Door To New Devices


Integrating 2D materials into conventional semiconductor manufacturing processes may be one of the more radical changes in the chip industry’s history. While there is pain and suffering associated with the introduction of any new materials in semiconductor manufacturing, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) support a variety of new device concepts, including BEOL transistors and single-... » read more