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Record Nr.

UNINA9910632998403321

Titolo

Silicon-germanium heterojunction bipolar transistors for mm-wave systems : technology, modeling and circuit applications / / Niccolò Rinaldi and Niccolò Rinaldi, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gistrup, Denmark : , : River Publishers, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-00-333951-4

1-000-79128-9

1-003-33951-4

1-000-79440-7

87-93519-60-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 pages)

Collana

River Publishers Series in Electronic Materials and Devices

Disciplina

621.381528

Soggetti

Bipolar transistors

Digital communications

Silicon alloys

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The semiconductor industry is a fundamental building block of the new economy, there is no area of modern life untouched by the progress of nanoelectronics. The electronic chip is becomingan ever-increasing portion of system solutions, starting initially from less than 5% in the 1970 microcomputer era, to more than 60% of the final cost of a mobile telephone, 50% of the price of a personal computer (representing nearly 100% of the functionalities) and 30% of the price of a monitor in the early 2000’s.Interest in utilizing the (sub-)mm-wave frequency spectrum for commercial and research applications has also been steadily increasing. Such applications, which constitute a diverse but sizeable future market, span a large variety of areas such as health, material science, mass transit, industrial automation, communications, and space exploration.Silicon-Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar



Transistors for mm-Wave Systems Technology, Modeling and Circuit Applications provides an overview of results of the DOTSEVEN EU research project, and as such focusses on key material developments for mm-Wave Device Technology. It starts with the motivation at the beginning of the project and a summary of its major achievements. The subsequent chapters provide a detailed description of the obtained research results in the various areas of process development, device simulation, compact device modeling, experimental characterization, reliability, (sub-)mm-wave circuit design and systems.