Jan 31, 2007

IET (former IEE) Award

Today I've learnt that the Institution of Engineering and Technology has awarded the Circuits, Devices and Systems Premium, to B. Iniguez, J. Deen and O. Marinov, for the paper “Charge Transport in Organic and Polymer Thin-Film Transistors: Recent Issues”.

Congratulations!

Jan 30, 2007

CDE in Madrid

Today I'm leaving for the CDE in Madrid. It is a Spanish conference, though with many international attendants. This year it is mainly focused on photonics, but there are many papers (and posters) on compact modeling. I'll report on this conference next week, with some comments on the best (under my own criteria) papers.

Jan 29, 2007

About the ITC'07 in Rome

Well, it has been a little bit disappointing, because though there were near 100 works, only four of them were on compact modeling. However, the rest of all has been very interesting, and I've learn more than I ever wanted to know about fabrication processes...
Once everything is added up, I'd like to point out some papers: one of Plastic Logic, Ltd where they were presenting statistics about defects in their fabricated circuits (panels), and another from Canon and the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
The latter was about parameter dispersion on TFT, one thing I believe to be quite forgotten about in compact modeling and very (VERY) important for design. The paper is good, but it lets out many things (effects of separation, orientation, mismatch in size, correlations among variations, etc...) However, it is a good start.

Jan 23, 2007

The European Network of Excellence "SINANO" addressed Compact Modelling of Multiple-Gate MOSFETs

From January 2004 to December 2006, a number of European teams have been working together in a Network of Excellence called SINANO, devoted to the study of novel structures of Silicon nanodevices.

The work has included technology, characterization, advanced simulation and compact modeling of novel structures of nanoscale MOSFETs.

The compact modeling work has especially addressed Multuple-Gate MOSFETs, in particular Double-Gate (DG) and Gate All Around (GAA) MOSFETs. The joint effort on compact modeling has led to several publications in international journals and conference proceedings.

Among the compact modeling publications carried out under the umbrella of the SINANO Network of Excellence, I want to mention the following paper, which was invited to the Special Issue on Advanced Compact Models and 45-nm Modeling Challenges, of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices:
B. IƱiguez, T. A., Fjeldly, A. Lazaro, F. Danneville and M. J. Deen, “Compact-modeling solutions for nanoscale double-gate and gate-all-around MOSFETs,” IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, vol 53, no. 9, pp. 2128-2142 September 2006

(This is an excellent review of the compact modeling work carried so far in Multiple-Gate devices and provides very interesting solutions for a 2-D or 3-D analytical model)


ITC in Rome

Well, today I'm leaving for the International Thin-Film Transistor in Rome, so the blog is going to be un-updated until I come back. However, I promise a (quite) full report when I return.