© 2012 Nagendra Sekhar, licensee InTech. This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Mechanical Characterization of Black Diamond (Low-k) Structures for 3D Integrated C...

Graphene has attracted much interest as a future channel material in radio frequency electronics because of its superior electrical properties. Fabrication of a graphene integrated circuit without significantly degrading transistor performance has proven to be challenging, posing one of the major bottlenecks to compete with existing technologies. Here we present a fabrication method fully prese...

1 Tamer Çatalkaya, Department of Integrated Circuit Design, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, [email protected] Abstract  As an initiative to produce low-cost / low-time Computer Base Training (CBT) material for the education of Chip Design, we introduce our multimedia reference model and our multimedia lab. The reference model enables the cost efficient production, where t...

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Guillotine partitions play an important role in many research areas and application domains, e.g., computational geometry, computer graphics, integrated circuit layout, and solid modeling, to mention just a few. In this paper we present an exact summation formula for the number of structurally-different guillotine partitions in d dimensions by n hyperplanes, and then show that it is Θ (( 2d− 1 ...

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It has been a great privilege to be a graduate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the Texas Tech University and work closely with my advisor Prof. Dr. Kwong S. Chao. His keen insight into system and integrated circuit design is the key factor in the success of this research. I would also like to thank Prof. Dr. Sunanda Mitra, for her willingness...