Polyimides in Microelectronics Applications.

Chemical and Physical Properties of Polyimides: Biomedical and Engineering Applications

Keynote CONTROLLED GROWTH OF CARBON NANOTUBES FOR APPLICATIONS IN MICROELECTRONICS

The outstanding properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) make them interesting for applications in microelectronics. It has been shown that they have outstanding current carrying capacity and thermal conductivity, which makes them potential candidates for interconnects on chips. Moreover, field-effect transistors based on single walled CNTs have been widely demonstrated and outperform silicon-base...

Review of Energy Harvesting Techniques and Applications for Microelectronics

The trends in technology allow the decrease in both size and power consumption of complex digital systems. This decrease in size and power gives rise to new paradigms of computing and use of electronics, with many small devices working collaboratively or at least with strong communication capabilities. Examples of these new paradigms are wearable devices and wireless sensor networks. Currently,...

Model-based shape from shading for microelectronics applications

Model-based shape from shading (SFS) is a promising paradigm introduced by Atick et al. [Neural Comput 8 (1996), 1321– 1340 ] in 1996 for solving inverse problems when we happen to have a lot of prior information on the depth profiles to be recovered. In the present work we adopt this approach to address the problem of recovering wafer profiles from images taken using a scanning electron micros...

Energy minimization-based analysis of electrowetting for microelectronics cooling applications

Electrowetting (EW)-induced droplet motion has been studied over the last decade in view of its promising applications in the field of microfluidics. The objective of the present work is to analyze the physics underlying two specific EW-based applications for microelectronics thermal management. The first of these involves heat absorption by liquid droplets moving on the surface of a chip under...