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State of the art in MicrofabricationJurriaan Schmitz
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Contents
Microelectronics: Moore’s Law today
Technology advances inside the microchip
Other microfabricated devices
Prospects for radiation imaging
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The beginning: 1960s
1961 Fairchild4T5R flip-flop
1962 RCA16T logic chip
1965 Fairchildopamp
Images:Computer history museum
1958 Fairchild
First planar transistor
1968 Fairchild
2kT SRAM chip
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Gordon Moore 1965
Transistors keep getting cheaper!
Smaller components
Bigger chips & wafers
Better skills
“Moore’s Law”:
The number of components on a chip doubles every year
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Moore’s Law – chips, accelerators, fusion…
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“technology driven progress”
+Brilliance of synchrotron sources, # channels in trackers…
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How is Moore’s Law keeping up?
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GPU’s beat CPU’s
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Moore’s Law: perspective
Transistor gate length scaling is slowing down (10% per generation)
300 → 450 mm transition is delayed to 2020
ITRS roadmap: multiple breakthroughs required by 2018
… what happens next?
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Microchips keep getting better
Design gap
Multicore processors
Transistor performance boosters
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Contents
Microelectronics: Moore’s Law today
Technology advances inside the microchip
Other microfabricated devices
Prospects for radiation imaging
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The CMOS chip
Complexity is more than transistors alone:
A cm2 chip may contain~20 km wires~1010 contacts
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Transistor evolution1970-2000: “the happy scaling era”
Keep everything the same, only miniaturize it: 1/√2 per generation
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Transistor evolution (2)2000-present: new technologies to boost performance
Intel
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Another performance booster:Permanent strain → active strain modulation
Switch strain on and off
Use piezoelectric material (e.g. PZT)
High on-current & low off-current
T. Van Hemert et al.., IEEE Trans. El. Dev. 2013
B. Kaleli et al., IEEE Trans. El. Dev. 2014
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The art of microchips today
1-nm precision manufacturing
Atomary sharp interfaces
High-purity materials
Best mastered:
Aluminum, copper, tungsten
Silicon; SiGe alloys SiO2, HfO2, Si3N4
Conventional wisdom:
“If you can do it in CMOS, do it in CMOS”
“If you can do it in silicon, do it in silicon”
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Emerging technologies in microelectronics:Replacing good old silicon
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Selective GaN on Si Ultra-thin semi-on-insulator
Ge PMOS InGaAs NMOS
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Emerging technologies in microelectronics:Replacing FLASH memory
Competitors:• Resistive RAM• Phase-change RAM• STT Magnetic RAM
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But meanwhile, FLASH is going 3D
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Contents
Microelectronics: Moore’s Law today
Technology advances inside the microchip
Other microfabricated devices
Prospects for radiation imaging
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Microtechnology: more than chips
Flat Panel Displays
PhotovoltaicsLight Emitting Diodes Semiconductor lasers
Microfluidics Sensors
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Microtechnology: more than chips
Flat Panel Displays
PhotovoltaicsLight Emitting Diodes Semiconductor lasers
Microfluidics Sensors
Steep market growthGaN-based technologyHetero-epitaxy
Haitz’ Law
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Microtechnology: more than chips
Flat Panel Displays
PhotovoltaicsLight Emitting Diodes Semiconductor lasers
Microfluidics Sensors
High potential:Point-of-care medicineInternet-of-thingsUses mainstream technology
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…and sensors for radiation imaging!
Microfabricated sensors in particle physics:
Silicon detectors
Charge-coupled devices
Silicon photomultipliers
CMOS-APS based detectors
…
Focus on semiconductors for signal generation.
Scintillators? Gas?
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InGrid: a radiation imaging detector
Standard CMOS
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Semiconductors on top of CMOS
“TFA detector”, Andrea Franco et al., IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 2012
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Or vice versa?
Stack thin-film transistors on your sensor
Monocrystalline: 3D electronics as developed e.g. by LETI (Batude et al.)
Polycrystalline: e.g. I. Brunets et al., IEEE Trans. El. Dev. 2009
Low temp fabrication (~400 °C)
High interconnect density >> TSV’s
LETIU.Twente
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Advances in microfabrication:Consequences for Particle Physics
Miniaturized detector systems may boast
Improved resolution and speed
Reduced power consumption Less X0, lower mass
Onboard intelligence
“The interconnect benefit”
IC Future: new materials & lower-power circuits
New semiconductor materials: GaN, InGaAs, Ge, …
Performance in radiation imaging?
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Thank you:
My coworkers at the University of Twente
Nikhef Detector R&D group
TIPP organizers
Dutch Technology Foundation STW, Min. Economic Affairs, FOM and EU
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Questions?
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Semiconductor market: arguably the largest industry
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CPU clock frequency
The transistor count on a microprocessor has not increased since 2005.
The clock frequency “ “ “ “
The transistor gate length has hardly reduced since 2005.
Chipworks: only 9% per generation lately, not 30%
90, 65, 45, 32, 22, 15 nm CMOS
RC bottleneck in the chip’s wiring
wikipedia
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Trends like Moore’s “Law” are not forever
Passenger airplanes
But airplanes got much better since 1960!
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Inside a TriGate chip
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