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The scarcity of efficacious insulation candidates prompted the Semiconductor Industry Association to identify the criticality of low-k dielectric material development. Thus, in June 1995, Dow made a business commitment to invent a new material specifically tailored for the interconnect application. Specific performance targets were defined based on interactions with the industry, experience gained through Dow s earlier benzocyclobutene-based systems, finite element analysis of the anticipated interconnect structures, and principles of material sciences. 

The chemistry involved in the formation of mesoporous silica thin films is qualitatively well understood. However, specific reaction mechanisms of the individual steps are still debated. In addition, owing to the complexity of the sol-gel reaction pathways and cooperative self-assembly, full kinetic models have not been developed. From the time of mixing, hydrolysis reactions, condensation reactions, protonation and deprotonation, dynamic exchange with solution nucleophiles, complexation with solution ions and surfactants, and self-assembly, all occur in parallel and are discussed here. Although the sol-gel reactions involved may be acid or base catalyzed, mesoporous silica film formation is carried out under acidic conditions, as silica species are metastable and the relative rates of hydrolysis and condensation reactions lead to interconnected structures as opposed to the stable sols produced at higher pH. Silicon alkoxides are the primary silica source (tetramethyl orthosilicate, tetraethyl orthosilicate, tetrapropyl orthosilicate, etc.) and are abbreviated TMOS, TEOS, and TPOS, respectively. Starting from the alkoxide, Si(OR)4, in ROH and H2O solution, some of the general reactions are ... 

The increase of the density of electronic circuits has been an area of active development over the past several decades. The primary reason for this interest is that the cost of an electronic component is roughly proportional to the total length of wire in the circuit[1]. The dielectric properties of materials used as insulators in multilayer interconnection structures determine the wiring density and total wire length in the finished part. 

A transfer matrix procedure was developed to study the noise generation and transmission for complex stiffened and interconnected structures. It has been shown that transmitted noise levels in the interior are sensitive to the structural dynamic characteristics not only of the stiffened sidewall but also of the sub-structure to which random loads are applied. Significant differences were found in noise transmission characteristics and levels between a completely coupled case and an idealized condition where the response of a sub-structure is computed independently from the response of the noise transmitting sidewall. 

The solution for product development based on user requirements is an exact definition of the system being designed. This gets rather complicated with mechatronic systems, since with these interconnected structures there are a number of mutual... 

A new dimension to acid-base systems has been developed with the use of zeolites. As illustrated in Fig. XVIII-21, the alumino-silicate faujasite has an open structure of interconnected cavities. By exchanging for alkali metal (or NH4 and then driving off ammonia), acid zeolites can be obtained whose acidity is comparable to that of sulfuric acid and having excellent catalytic properties (see Section XVIII-9D). Using spectral shifts, zeolites can be put on a relative acidity scale [195]. An important added feature is that the size of the channels and cavities, which can be controlled, gives selectivity in that only... 

At the present time there exist no flux relations wich a completely sound cheoretical basis, capable of describing transport in porous media over the whole range of pressures or pore sizes. All involve empiricism to a greater or less degree, or are based on a physically unrealistic representation of the structure of the porous medium. Existing models fall into two main classes in the first the medium is modeled as a network of interconnected capillaries, while in the second it is represented by an assembly of stationary obstacles dispersed in the gas on a molecular scale. The first type of model is closely related to the physical structure of the medium, but its development is hampered by the lack of a solution to the problem of transport in a capillary whose diameter is comparable to mean free path lengths in the gas mixture. The second type of model is more tenuously related to the real medium but more tractable theoretically. 

A polymer is a large molecule built up from numerous smaller molecules. These large molecules may be linear, slightly branched, or highly interconnected. In the latter case the structure develops into a large three-dimensional network. 

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