Planar Processing Primer - Hardcover

Anner, George E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0442206577 ISBN 13: 9780442206574

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990

Synopsis

Planar Processing Primer is based on lecture notes for a silicon planar process­ ing lecture/lab course offered at the University of Illinois-UC for over fifteen years. Directed primarily to electrical engineering upperclassmen and graduate students, the material also has been used successfully by graduate students in physics and ceramic and metallurgical engineering. It is suitable for self-study by engineers trained in other disciplines who are beginning work in the semiconductor fields, and it can make circuit design engineers aware of the processing limitations under which they must work. The text describes and explains, at an introductory level, the principal processing steps used to convert raw silicon into a semiconductor device or integrated circuit. First-order models are used for theoretical treatments (e.g., of diffusion and ion implantation), with reference made to more advanced treatments, to computer programs such as SUPREM that include higher order effects, and to interactions among sequential processes. In Chapters 8, 9, and to, the application of silicon processes to compound semiconductors is discussed briefly. Over the past several years, the size of transistors has decreased markedly, allowing more transistors per chip unit area, and chip size has increased.

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Synopsis

Emphasizes the practical trade-offs that are essential to the fabrication process and presents the steps required to convert raw silicon into a transistor or integrated circuit. Outlines processing limitations and features four-point probe wafer measurements, coverage of several glasses encountered in processing, a collection of information on desi

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0442206577
• ISBN 13: 9780442206574
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 634