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Development of Silicon Drift Detectors using Boron layer technology

Golshani, N. (author)

Radiation detectors are used in a large variety of fields such as medicine, security, defense, geophysics, industry and physics. They have been developed to detect the energy or position of radiation or charge particles. In Chapter 1 several X-ray detectors were introduced briefly. In gas filled X-ray detectors, incoming photons ionize inert gas...

doctoral thesis 2015

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Single-grain Silicon Technology for Large Area X-ray Imaging

Arslan, A. (author)

Digital flat panel X-ray imagers are currently using a-Si and poly-Si thin-film-transistors (TFTs). a-Si TFT permits the use of large area substrates, however, due to the amorphous nature, the carrier mobility is very low (<1 cm2/Vs). Poly-Si TFT improves the mobility (~150 cm2/Vs) but due to random grain boundaries, the defect density is still...

doctoral thesis 2015

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Liquid-Si Technology for High-Speed Circuits on Flexible Substrates

Zhang, J. (author)

Recently, flexible, wearable and disposable electronics have attracted a lot of attention. Printing enables low-cost fabrication of circuits on flexible substrates. Printed organic and metal oxide thin-film transistors (TFTs) have been researched intensively due to the ease of solution-processing. But their carrier mobility and reliability are...

doctoral thesis 2015

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Carbon Nanotubes as Vertical Interconnects in 3D Integrated Circuits

Vollebregt, S. (author)

Interconnects in integrated circuits (IC) are the major cause of power dissipation and delay. 3D integration has been proposed as a method to reduce these issues. For this 3D integration, fabrication of high aspect ratio reliable vertical interconnects (vias) are required. For this new materials, like carbon nanotubes (CNT), are being considered...

doctoral thesis 2014

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MIP Plasma Decapsulation of Copper-wired Semiconductor Devices for Failure Analysis

Tang, J. (author)

The majority of Integrated Circuit (IC) devices are encapsulated in wire-bonded plastic IC packages. Epoxy molding compound is used as the encapsulation material and gold was used as the bonding wire material. However, the increase of gold material price from 400 USD/ounce in year 2005 to 1400 USD/ounce in year 2013 results in a major cost issue...

doctoral thesis 2014

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Monolithic 3D Integration of Single-Grain Silicon TFTs

Tajari Mofrad, M.R. (author)

doctoral thesis 2012

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High-performance Processing in Networked and Grid Environments

Ahmadi, M. (author)

In this dissertation, we present several techniques to achieve the high-performance processing in networked and grid environments. Many applications need a high-performance processing system to execute efficiently. High-performance processing mainly stems from parallelism. The parallel nature of grid computing is a very attractive solution to...

doctoral thesis 2010

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Single Grain TFTs for High Speed Flexible Electronics

Baiano, A. (author)

SG-TFTs fabricated by the ?-Czochralski process have already reached a performance as high as that of SOI MOSFET devices. However, one of the most important and challenging goals is extending SG-TFT technology to reach a higher level of performance than that achieved with SOI technology. This thesis considers two different aspects of this...

doctoral thesis 2009

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Characterization of thin-film silicon materials and solar cells through numerical modeling

Pieters, B.E. (author)

At present most commercially available solar cells are made of crystalline silicon (c-Si). The disadvantages of crystalline silicon solar cells are the high material cost and energy consumption during production. A cheaper alternative can be found in thin-film silicon solar cells. The thin-film silicon used in this type of solar cells is in a...

doctoral thesis 2008

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Irradiation-induced degradation of amorphous silicon solar cells in space

Klaver, A. (author)

Solar cells are the prime power supply for satellites in space. Space is, however, a hostile environment for electronic devices, such as solar cells: in space the devices are subjected to large temperature cycles, atomic oxygen, space dust, meteorites, and high-energy charged-particle irradiation. In this thesis we present the development of a...

doctoral thesis 2007

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Testing of modern semiconductor memory structures

Gaydadjiev, G.N. (author)

In this thesis, we study the problem of faults in modern semiconductor memory structures and their tests. According to the 2005 ITRS, the systems on chip (SoCs) are moving from logic and memory balanced chips to more memory dominated devices in order to cope with the increasing application requirements. The embedded memories are expected to...

doctoral thesis 2007

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Crystallographic orientation- and location-controlled Si single grains on an amorphous substrate for large area electronics

He, M. (author)

doctoral thesis 2007

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Single grain Si TFT's and circuits based on the µ-Czochralski process

Rana, V. (author)

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doctoral thesis 2006

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Expanding thermal plasma deposition of hydrogenated amorphous silicon for solar cells

Petit, A.M.H.N. (author)

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doctoral thesis 2006

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Electrical characterisation of matched pairs for evaluation of integrated circuit technologies

Tuinhout, H.P. (author)

This thesis is about evaluating differences between electrical properties of closely spaced, supposedly identical, transistors (matched pairs) in integrated circuits (IC's). Electrical properties of transistors in IC's generally exhibit relatively large spreads due to variations of production equipment. Such spreads limit the attainable...

doctoral thesis 2005

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Location-Controlled Large Si Islands By Excimer-Laser Annealing On Glass Substrate

Burtsev, A.A. (author)

doctoral thesis 2003

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Formation of crystalline-silicon islands for thin-film transistors by excimer-laser-induced lateral growth

Van der Wilt, P.C. (author)

doctoral thesis 2003

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Electrical characterization of c-Si TFTs fabricated by location-controlled laser crystallization

van Dijk, B.D. (author)

doctoral thesis 2002

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The Transverse Junction Solar Cell

Kroon, M.A. (author)

doctoral thesis 2001

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High-temperature CVD silicon on ceramic substrates for solar cell applications

van Zutphen, A.J.M.M. (author)

doctoral thesis 2001