Materials Issues in Novel Si-Based Technology: Volume 686

by L.J. Davis (Editor)

This book from the Materials Research Society reflects the increasing need for new materials to continue the Moore's Law scaling that has been the backbone of silicon-based semiconductors. The relatively simple physical dimension reduction and optimization of the past is being replaced with increasingly complex implementation of novel materials to achieve the technology scaling. New materials such as strained Si on SiGe, silicon-on-insulator, and high-k dielectrics are now making their way into mainstream CMOS logic technology. Soon, the future of silicon devices will be based not on how well the technology can be made smaller, but on how well new materials can be successfully integrated. Topics include: group-IV alloy and strained materials and devices; advanced CMOS - SOI and vertical devices; silicon-based substrates and device processing; MILC materials growth for CMOS and TFT; nanocrystal memories; growth of nanostructured materials; nanoscale devices; nanostructures; and advanced CMOS gate stacks and metallization.

298 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2001

About the author

Lawrence James Davis, better known as L. J. Davis, was an American writer, whose novels focussed on Brooklyn, New York.

Davis's novel, A Meaningful Life, described by the Village Voice as a "scathing 1971 satire about a reverse-pioneer from Idaho who tries to redeem his banal existence through the renovation of an old slummed-up Brooklyn town house", was reissued in 2009, with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem. Lethem, a childhood friend of one of Davis's sons, praised the novel in an essay about Brooklyn authors, which resulted in New York Review Books Classics reprinting it after nearly 40 years.

Davis has been a resident of Brooklyn since 1965. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975 to write fiction, but then began to write journalism, notably for Harper's Magazine.

Davis died at his home in Brooklyn on April 6, 2011.