Abstract
To be practical for VLSI applications, mobility-enhancement technology has to be low cost and high performance. The new material and new substrate orientation approaches offer mobility enhancement, but process complexities can lead to high cost. However, exploiting processes available in current VLSI fabrication to produce desired strain can be cost-effective with reasonable enhancement. Package-strain is modular technology, which is applied after the ICs fabrication without the introduction of new process, and the enhancement is satisfactory for most applications. The combination of new material, process induced strain, and package strain continues to improve future performance.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 21-36 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - 05 2005 |
| Externally published | Yes |