Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: July 8


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations Effect of Exchange-Correlation Functionals on Schottky Barriers at Si/Metal Interfaces NIST, University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University AgRefactor: Self-Evolving Agentic Workflow for HLS Compatibility and Performance Carnegie Mellon University, UCLA ... » read more

Computational Strategies for Schottky Barrier Heights Prediction (NIST, U. Maryland, Johns Hopkins)


Researchers from NIST, University of Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University published a technical paper titled “Effect of Exchange-Correlation Functionals on Schottky Barriers at Si/Metal Interfaces.” Abstract excerpt "Accurate prediction of Schottky barrier heights (SBHs) at metal–semiconductor interfaces is essential for understanding and optimizing charge injection in electronic and ... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Jan. 20


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=515 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Improving End-to-End Cyber Threat Detection with Quantum Processors Through Hybrid Architecture (Johns Hopkins Univ.)


A new technical paper titled "Cyber Threat Detection Enabled by Quantum Computing" was published by researchers at Johns Hopkins University. Abstract "Threat detection models in cybersecurity must keep up with shifting traffic, strict feature budgets, and noisy hardware, yet even strong classical systems still miss rare or borderline attacks when the data distribution drifts. Small, near-... » read more

Research Bits: Sept. 16


Beyond-EUV resists Researchers from Johns Hopkins University, East China University of Science and Technology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Soochow University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory propose a combination of new resist materials and a higher-powered EUV process that could enable smaller chip feature sizes. The "beyond... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: July 1


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=426 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Viability of aZnMIm As A Resist For EUV Lithography (Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Intel et al.)


A new technical paper (preprint) titled "Extreme Ultraviolet and Beyond Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography using Amorphous Zeolitic Imidazolate Resists Deposited by Atomic/Molecular Layer Deposition" was published by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University, Intel Corporation, Bruker Nano, EUV Tech and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. The paper states "This study demonstr... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Podcast: imec's roadmap and a one-on-one interview with the European research house's chief strategy officer. China's Xiaomi debuted an in-house-designed 10-core mobile SoC built on a 3nm process. The company did not identify the foundry. It also announced plans to invest 50 billion yuan (~$7B) over the next decade to develop high-end smartphone chips, as part of a 200 billion yuan (~$28B) c... » read more

Research Bits: Dec. 24


Growing multilayered chips Researchers from MIT, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Sungkyunkwan University, and University of Texas at Dallas developed a method to fabricate a multilayered chip with alternating layers of semiconducting material grown directly on top of each other. The approach enables high-performance transistors and memory and logic elements on any random crystalline ... » read more

Survey: HW SW Co-Design Approaches Tailored to LLMs


A new technical paper titled "A Survey: Collaborative Hardware and Software Design in the Era of Large Language Models" was published by researchers at Duke University and Johns Hopkins University. Abstract "The rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has significantly transformed the field of artificial intelligence, demonstrating remarkable capabilities in natural language proce... » read more

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