Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Rapid Synthesis of Anti-Fogging Coatings

Tricoli A., Righettoni M., Pratsinis S.E., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH

The wetting properties of surfaces are fundamental properties greatly influencing their interaction with the environment. Self-cleaning, bacteria-resistant, and anti-fogging surfaces are feasible by depositing either super-hydrophobic or super-hydrophilic coatings and will have great impact on [...]

Novel Nanostructures for Solid State Alcohol Breath Analyzers

Tricoli A., Righettoni M., Pratsinis S.E., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH

Solid state alcohol breath analyzers are commonly used by the law enforcement authorities, due to high sensitivity toward ethanol, their portability and fair response and recovery times. Common materials for the synthesis of the sensitive [...]

Towards Predictive TCAD and Fab Integration

Fichtner W., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH

This paper gives an overview of the status of technology computer-aided design (TCAD) as it is used today for research, development and manufacturing projects in the micro- and opto-electronics industry. While the accurate and physics-based [...]

A Comparison of the Behavioral Characteristics of Miniature Gas Flow Sensors

Cousseau P., Dubochet O., Lerch Ph., Renaud Ph., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH

This paper presents a comparison of three different designs for a miniature gas flow sensor operating on the thermal transfer principle, the standard silicon nitride membrane device and two plastic designs. The goal of this [...]

Two-Dimensional Simulation of Scanning Capacitance Microscopy Measurements of Arbitrary Doping Profiles

Ciampolini L., Ciappa M., Malberti P., Fichtner W., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH

Accurate prediction of doping distributions in modern VLSI devices (e.g. shallow junctions) with TCAD tools represents a major challenge which requires the process simulation models to be accurately tuned on the basis of two-dimensional dopant [...]

Modelling an NMR Probe for Magnetometry

Boero G., Schlaefli D., Besse P.A., Popovic R.S., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH

A model of an NMR magnetometer probe head, based on the Bloch equations, has been developed and implemented in a C-program. The program permits to simulate pulsed and continuous wave NMR experiments with a probe [...]

Acceleration of Inductance Extraction by Means of the Monte Carlo Method

Leonhardt G., Fichtner W., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH

With increasing signal frequencies inductive effects of metallic interconnections in all kinds of packages become more and more important for the electrical behavior of a circuit. During the design process it is therefore of interest [...]