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Crossfield intends to develop a single chip, low-power, flexible radio transceiver in ultrawideband technology that is battery operated and can support wireless sensor network applications not currently addressed by off-the-shelf wireless standards such as IEEE802.15.4. By implementing an ultrawideband (UWB) radio, a the power consumption can be reduced by an order of magnitude over existing radio ...

The cost to maintain Moore’s law is growing exponentially with every generation of semiconductor device. To support the ever-increasing demand for smaller, faster, lower-power, and lower-cost microelectronic semiconductor devices, tools enabling faster and lower-cost research and development are required. Current development tools are only capable of achieving one data point per wafer. The goal ...

Throughout the history of integrated circuit fabrication, gate stack engineering has been employed to meet the aggressive device scaling necessary to stay on the Moore’s Law curve. However, as device dimensions continue to progress into the sub-100-nm regime, scaling of the traditional SiO2 gate dielectric led to issues with reliability, dopant penetration and excessive gate leakage current. Ove ...

Tahoe RF will design, simulate, fabricate and test a low noise amplifier (LNA) and companion power amplifier (PA). The feasibility study for this design was completed during the Phase I activities. The design will be fabricated using a noise improved device models of a 0.25 m silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) process.

Communication SoC technology has advanced significantly over the past ten years resulting in highly integrated radio SoC chips for standards such as Wi-Fi, global position system (GPS), Bluetooth (BT), 3G cellular, digital TV (DTV), and cable modems. While most radio SoC"s are narrowband (e.g. WiFi, GPS, BT, and cellular), future trends favor broadband software defined radios (SDR) and cognitive r ...

The company proposes to design, build and test a prototype system for high-speed x-ray inspection. The system will be based on a new method of x-ray imaging that allows for high-NA x-ray illumination using standard laboratory (non-synchrotron) x-ray sources. A high-resolution, large field-of-view detector permits large field-of-view, high-resolution imaging.

To address the DMEA need for accurate identification and analysis of semiconductor materials with high-resolution imaging of integratedcircuits (ICs), Physical Optics Corporation (POC) developed and evaluated the feasibility of novel Nano-Resolution Three-DimensionalIntegrated Circuit Reconstruction (NEOTERIC) System for in situ full reverse engineering of ICs based on swing nanolaminography and a ...

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Counterfeit and maliciously modified electronics can disrupt, disable, and subvert Department of Defense (DoD) weapons systems crucial to national security. When coupled with the growing sophistication of counterfeits and physical malware, the need for advanced detection technology is apparent. Conventional screening technologies have proven incapable of robust and reliable counterfeit ...

Silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) integrated circuits have achieved popularity due to their high speed performance and low power consumption in radio frequency applications. An important aspect of the SOS fabrication process that must be verified to maximize yield is the thickness of the thin films deposited on the sapphire substrate. However, due to the transparent nature of sapphire, current optical met ...