An extraordinary combination of material science, manufacturing processes, and innovative thinking spurred the development of SiGe heterojunction devices that offer a wide array of functions, unprecedented levels of performance, and low manufacturing costs. While there are many books on specific aspects of Si heterostructures, the Silicon Heterostructure Handbook: Materials, Fabrication, Devices, Circuits, and Applications of SiGe and Si Strained-Layer Epitaxy is the first book to bring all aspects together in a single source.
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Drawn from the comprehensive and well-reviewed Silicon Heterostructure Handbook, this volume focuses on the materials science aspects of silicon heterostructure. It defines and details the many advances in the Si-SiGe strained-layer epitaxy for device applications. The book covers modern SiGe epitaxial growth techniques, EPI defects and dopant diffusion in thin films, stability constraints, and electronic properties of SiGe, strained Si, and Si-C alloys. Drawing on the talents of an international panel of experts, additional topics include the mechanisms for carbon doping in SiGe HBTs,...

Drawn from the comprehensive and well-reviewed Silicon Heterostructure Handbook, this book examines the design, fabrication, and application of silicon heterostructure transistors. Bringing together the scattered literature into a single source, the book focuses on SiGe HBT BiCMOS and Si/SiGe CMOS technologies. ''Snapshot'' views of the industrial state-of-the-art provide a basis of comparison for the current status and future course of the industry. Topics include materials, transistor optimization, fabrication, devices, structural innovations, modeling, and simulation, and potential...

Drawn from the comprehensive and well-reviewed Silicon Heterostructure Handbook, this text highlights the most mature and, not surprisingly, the most researched, silicon-based heterostructure devices. These are divided into four sections: SiGe heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs), heterostructure FETs, other heterostructure devices, and optoelectronic components. Topics include device physics, broadband noise, performance limits, reliability, engineered substrates, and self-assembling nanostructures. Coverage of optoelectronic devices includes LEDS, near-infrared detectors, photonic...

Drawn from the comprehensive and well-reviewed Silicon Heterostructure Handbook, this volume focuses on measurement and modeling of high-speed conductor devices, a topic that is often absent in the technical literature. The author provides experience-based tricks of the trade and the subtle nuances of measuring and modeling, making this an important reference for semiconductor fabrication laboratory workers. Topics include compact modeling using integrated CAD tools and design kits, noise mitigation approaches, Germanium RF designs, transmission lines, and improved de-embedding techniques.

Drawn from the comprehensive and well-reviewed Silicon Heterostructure Handbook, this volume covers SiGe applications in the real world. It presents a broad overview of the merits of SiGe for emerging wireless communication systems and new techniques for improved LNA design. The chapters give readers a comprehensive view of linearization techniques in devices and circuits and the RF to millimeter design space. The discussion spans the RF to the millimeter wave IC space, and includes wireless radio architecture, MEMS processing, and robust packaging techniques. The last three chapters provide...

A treatment of silicon-germanium heterojunction bipolar transistors (SiGe HBT), a technology that is expected to revolutionise communications. It covers motivation, history, materials, fabrication, device physics, operational principles, and circuit-level properties associated with SiGe.

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We are in the center of the most life-changing technological revolution the Earth has ever known. In little more than 65 years, an eye-blink in human history, a single technological invention has launched the proverbial thousand ships, producing the most sweeping and pervasive set of changes ever to wash over humankind; changes that are reshaping the very core of human existence, on a global scale, at a relentlessly accelerating pace. And we are just at the very beginning.

Silicon Earth: Introduction to Microelectronics and Nanotechnology introduces readers with...