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    Strained silicon is a layer of silicon in which the silicon atoms are stretched beyond their normal interatomic distance. This can be accomplished by...
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  • leaving the strained silicon directly on the insulator. In contrast, strained silicon on SGOI provides a strained silicon layer on a relaxed silicon germanium...
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  • deposition of Ge-containing films such as high purity Ge, SiGe, and strained silicon. SiGe foundry services are offered by several semiconductor technology...
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    Low-κ dielectric insulators. Silicon on insulator (SOI). Strained silicon in a process used by IBM known as Strained silicon directly on insulator (SSDOI)...
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    Silicon photonics is the study and application of photonic systems which use silicon as an optical medium. The silicon is usually patterned with sub-micrometre...
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  • involves the use of a strain-inducing capping layer. CVD silicon nitride is a common choice for a strained capping layer, in that the magnitude and type of strain...
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    Device Technologies Featuring Metal/High-k Gate Stacks with Uniaxial Strained Silicon Channels on (100) and (110) Substrates". 2006 International Electron...
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  • Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for contributions to strained silicon transistor technology. "2015 IEEE/EDS Fellows *This is a complete"...
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    Ge films and Ge-containing thin semiconductor films such as SiGe in strained silicon application, and GeSbTe in NAND Flash applications. IBGe is a non-pyrophoric...
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  • processor performance. Efforts to minimize leakage include the use of strained silicon, high-κ dielectrics, and/or stronger dopant levels in the semiconductor...
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    interconnect. The process has features such as strained silicon transistors and low-κ carbon-doped silicon oxide (CDO) dielectric, which is also known as...
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  • (2007). "A 45nm Logic Technology with High-k+Metal Gate Transistors, Strained Silicon, 9 Cu Interconnect Layers, 193nm Dry Patterning, and 100% Pb-free Packaging"...
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  • 90 nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) CMOS process, with development led by Shahidi, in 2002. The same year, Intel demonstrated a 90 nm strained-silicon process...
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  • current hard disk drive products. IBM also unveils "strained silicon", a breakthrough that alters silicon to boost chip speeds by up to 35 percent. IBM's...
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    GaInP InN InP InAs InAsSb AlInN ZnO ZnS ZnSe ZnTe CdO CdxHg1−xTe Si Ge Strained silicon GeSbTe As MOCVD has become well-established production technology,...
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    incorporate dual stress liner technology (an amalgam of strained silicon and 'squeezed silicon', the latter of which is not actually a technology) co-developed...
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  • 2007). "A 45nm Logic Technology with High-k+Metal Gate Transistors, Strained Silicon, 9 Cu Interconnect Layers, 193nm Dry Patterning, and 100% Pb-free Packaging"...
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    GDDR3 Mobility Radeon X1700 M66 RV535 475 400 550 1.9 1.9 11.2 17.6 strained silicon Mobility Radeon X1800 March 1, 2006 M58 R520 450 500 8:12:12:12 5.4...
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  • for control of new "diffusion-less" annealing processes and advanced strained silicon processes. To address these new process control requirements, in 2007...
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    tech industry phenomenon known as Silicon Valley prompted Mayor Tom McEnery to adopt the city motto of "Capital of Silicon Valley" in 1988 to promote the...
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    Framework IV project "Silicon Quantum Integrated Circuits (SiQUIC)" in 1997 on heterostructure and strained silicon MOSFETs and Silicon-germanium resonant-tunneling...
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  • realizing these hybrid objects based on sound and matter. By investigating strained silicon systems, the authors identify low-lying donor transitions that can...
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  • Houdellier, Florent; Claverie, Alain (2008). "Direct Mapping of Strain in a Strained Silicon Transistor by High-Resolution Electron Microscopy" (PDF). Physical...
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  • channelling contrast imaging of interfacial defects in strained silicon-germanium layers on silicon". Philosophical Magazine A. 68. 1 (1): 59–80. Bibcode:1993PMagA...
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    Santa Clara Valley (category Silicon Valley)
    farmland to densely populated cities, and it became referred to as the Silicon Valley. Once primarily agricultural because of its highly fertile soil...
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    Silicene is a two-dimensional allotrope of silicon, with a hexagonal honeycomb structure similar to that of graphene. Contrary to graphene, silicene is...
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  • experienced at the transition state. Although three-membered rings are more strained, formation of aziridine is faster than formation of azetidine due to the...
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  • millimeter wave vacuum electronic devices 2015 C Auth For contributions to strained silicon transistor technology 2015 Victor Bright For contributions to micro-...
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    Santa Clara County, California (category Silicon Valley)
    populous city, and the most populous city in Northern California. Home to Silicon Valley, Santa Clara County is an economic center for high technology, and...
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  • quantitative susceptibility mapping. 2014 Xie, Ya-Hong For contributions to strained-silicon materials and devices. 2015 Bilek, Marcela For contributions to the...
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