A textbook designed to accompany The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers' short course on improving interconnect performance for increased speed

Since overall circuit performance has depended primarily on transistor properties, previous efforts to enhance circuit and system speed were focused on transist

This book is jointly authored by leading academic and industry researchers. The material is unique in that it spans IC interconnect topics ranging from IBM's re

Finding new materials for copper/low-k interconnects is critical to the continuing development of computer chips. While copper/low-k interconnects have served w

In the “More than Moore” era, performance requirements for leading edge semiconductor devices are demanding extremely fine pitch interconnection in semicond