Integrated silicon-based

As just pointed out, the development of integrated silicon based sensors structures is far and away the most advanced aspect of microfabricated chemical sensor research and development. It is now possible to visualize complex analytical chemistries being performed... 

OFETs constructed on a silicon wafer do not lake advantage of one of the main interest of organic materials, namely the possibility of building electronic devices on plastic substrates. A second important drawback of the silicon-based structure is the difficulty to individually address the gale of transistors built on the same wafer, which would prevent the achievement of integrated circuits. 

While over the last 40 years microelectronic integrated circuits based predominantly on silicon technology have made possible our current capabilities in everything from computers and phones to appliances and toys, even greater opportunities would exist if the circuits could be made more lightweight,... 

SOI Silicon on Insulator material is today s most advanced Silicon-based substrate technology it is basically Silicon material with an integrated insulation layer underneath a single crystal Si layer. It combines most of the advantages of the most well established Silicon technology with high radiation, media and temperature compatibility. 

The silicon substrate constitutes a very interesting support for facilitating the integration in microelectronic devices. The electrochemical and electroanalytical fields can gain remarkable benefits from the silicon-based miniaturization devices, especially if arrays of metal electrodes can be fabricated. An understanding of the electrochemical properties of CNTs directly attached to silicon is thus essential for their potential application in developing silicon-based electrochemical or (bio)electrochemical... 

Aside from the basic approach to polishing, the most critical component of a CMP tool is the wafer earrier. As with CMP tools, wafer carriers have evolved from roots in lens grinding and in the silicon wafer polishing industries to meet requirements specific to polishing silicon-based integrated circuits. 

New Materials Technology. The unique chemical compatibility of Si02 with silicon and aluminum has been a significant factor in the dominance of silicon-based semiconductor technology for MOSFETs in particular and integrated circuits in general. Two enhancements of conventional bipolar or MOS processes have been studied silicon on insulator (SOI) and SiGe. An alternative material of importance is SiC. 

Metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) are field effect transistors with a thin film of silicon dioxide between the gate electrode and the semiconductor. The charge on the silicon dioxide controls the size of the depletion zone in the polype semiconductor. MOSFETs are easier to mass produce and are used in integrated circuits and microprocessors for computers and in amplifiers for cassette players. Traditionally, transistors have been silicon based but a recent development is field-effect transistors based on organic materials. 

Soref, R, "Silicon-Based Optical-Microwave Integrated Circuits," Microwave J., 230 (May 1992). 

Partially functionalized cyclopolysilanes recently attracted attention as model substances for siloxene and luminescent silicon. The yellow luminescent silicon is formed by the anodic oxidation of elemental silicon in HF-containing solutions and may be used for the development of silicon-based materials for light-emitting structures which could be integrated into optoelectronic devices77. Because the visible photoluminescence of... 

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