Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: June 16


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations Eidola: Modeling Multi-GPU Network Communication Traffic in Distributed AI Workloads 🔗 University of Wisconsin-Madison, AMD Beyond Silicon: Materials, Mechanisms, and Methods for Physical Neural Computing 🔗 University of Lübeck, TU Hamburg InjectV: M... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: May 19


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations Micro-Transfer Printing on Silicon Photonics: Tutorial, Recent Progress and Outlook 🔗 Ghent U., imec Challenges and prospects of 2D electronics for future monolithic CFETs 🔗 SKKU, Hanyang U. et al. A Device-Physics-Informed Artific... » read more

ANN Framework for Thermal-Aware Modeling of GAAFETs (NYCU)


A new technical paper, "A Device-Physics-Informed Artificial Neural Network Approach for Thermal-Aware I-V and C-V Modeling of GAA FETs," was published by researchers at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Abstract "This work introduces a device-physics-informed neural network framework for simultaneous modeling of thermal-aware I-V and C-V characteristics of gate-all-around (GAA) f... » read more

Backside Power Delivery Creates Fab Tool, Thermal Dissipation Barriers


Key Takeaways Backside power delivery reduces routing congestion at the most advanced nodes and offers significant performance improvement options. But it also adds a bunch of new challenges involving via alignment and interconnects. Still, leading-edge foundries are making progress, and all of them plan to offer BPDNs at 2nm and below. Backside power delivery networks deliv... » read more

Chip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Jan. 27


New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: [table id=517 /] Find more semiconductor research papers here. » read more

Better Contact Resistance in Top-Gate CNFETs through Self-Aligned MoOx Nanoparticle Contact Doping (NYCU et al.)


A new technical paper titled "Improving Contact Resistance in Top-Gate Carbon Nanotube Transistor through Self-Aligned MoOx Nanoparticle Contact Doping" was published by researchers at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and National Center for Instrumentation Research. "Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are promising candidates for next-generation back-end-of-line (BEOL) compatible devices due t... » 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

Low Temperature Cu-Cu Bonding for Advanced Packaging (NYCU)


A new technical paper titled "Thermal stability enhancement of low temperature Cu-Cu bonding using metal passivation technology for advanced electronic packaging" was published by researchers at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Abstract "This work investigates the thermal stability of Cu-Cu bonding using a thin Ag passivation layer in applications targeting advanced packaging. Co... » read more

Chip Industry Week in Review


Apple plans to increase its U.S. investment by an additional $100 billion over four years, which includes the launch of an advanced manufacturing supply chain program, spurring a number of related chip industry announcements, including: Apple will invest in Amkor's new packaging and test facility in Arizona as its first and largest customer, and Amkor will package and test Apple silicon pr... » read more

3DICs: Atomic-Scale Behavior of Electromigration in Cu−Cu Joints (NYCU, ITRI)


A new technical paper titled "In Situ Atomic-Scale Investigation of Electromigration Behavior in Cu–Cu Joints at High Current Density" was published by researchers at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). Excerpt "Electromigration (EM) poses significant challenges to the reliability of miniaturized devices, particularly th... » read more

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