1. Holst Centre, imec and TNO report a world-first plastic transponder circuit at 50 kb/s
(Products News/New Products)

..., developed an 8-bit flexible transponder circuit on foil using pentacene as semiconductor material and a high-k gate dielectric.Today, at the International Electronics Devices Meeting, Holst Centre, ...

2. IMEC presents functional 22nm SRAM cells fabricated using EUV technology
(Products News/New Products)

... to the 0.186µm² of IMEC’s 32nm cell reported last year. For the front-end-of-line process, IMEC used its high-k/metal-gate FinFET platform. The FinFETs consist of HfO2 as dielectric and TiN as metal ...

3. SUSS MicroTec Test Systems Chosen for Advanced Testing Laboratory
(Industry News/America)

...ansistor scaling to the 16-nm node and beyond and the investigation of the reliability characteristics of high-k dielectrics. The partnership with SEMATECH, a global consortium of chipmakers, Core Waf...

4. IMEC offers three up–to–date engineering courses
(Industry News/World)

...ial, thin-gate oxide behavior, resist trimming, dual-doped gates, soft landing steps, metal gate etching, high-k etching, shallow-trench isolation, passivation Layers on STI sidewalls, and more. Day 3...

5. Hynix joins IMEC’s (sub–)32nm CMOS research platform
(Industry News/World)

...gate and nitride memory activity lines into advanced material research, including exploration of advanced high-k dielectrics.  From June 2007 onwards, a team of researchers of Hynix will reside a...

6. AMD, Intel, Cypress and Synopsys Executives to deliver keynotes at SEMICON West 2007
(Industry News/World)

...range of topics that are revolutionizing the advanced manufacturing world including new opportunities for high-K materials, the solar energy market and innovative new advances in design-for-manufactur...

7. Air Products’ high–k materials enable semiconductor advances
(Products News/New Products)

...manufacturers to develop 45 nanometer (nm) semiconductor chips have been made possible through the use of high-k materials in the gate dielectric.  Air Products (NYSE:APD) produces and markets a ...

8. IMEC shows potential of FinFETs for analog and RF applications
(Association News/Europe)

...onal RF circuits and operational amplifiers using FinFETs with 45nm physical gate length and a metal-gate high-k gate stack. For applications at relatively low frequencies (below 5GHz) that demand a h...