Consortium for Advanced Semiconductor Materials and Technologies

Status and Application of Advanced Semiconductor Technologies

GaAs HBT technology is being challenged for existing and new product applications. SiC FETs and GaN HEMTs have been shown to have significant power delivery advantage when large supply voltages are required. InP HBTs are emerging as the next technology for very high-speed applications. After years of promise and controversy, the SiGe HBT is beginning to be applied in high-performance systems. P...

Advanced Lithography: Nanoimprint Lithography for Semiconductor and Interconnect Technologies

Advanced technologies for LTE advanced

With the explosive growth in mobile data traffic fueled by smartphones and mobile applications, transition from the 3rd generation (3G) toward 4th generation (4G) cellular networks is progressing at an unprecedented pace. Since the first release (release 8) of the 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) long-term evolution (LTE) standard in December 2008, LTE has become the de facto standard ...

Semiconductor Materials :-

The label semiconductor itself provides a hint as to its characteristics. The prefix semis normally applied to a range of levels midway between two limits. The term conductor is applied to any material that will support a generous flow of charge when a voltage source of limited magnitude is applied across its terminals. An insulator is a material that offers a very low level of conductivity und...

Semiconductor Materials for Solar Cells

In most of today solar cells the absorption of photons, which results in the generation of the charge carriers, and the subsequent separation of the photo-generated charge carriers take place in semiconductor materials. Therefore, the semiconductor layers are the most important parts of a solar cell; they form the hart of the solar cell. There are a number of different semiconductor materials t...