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Influence of Silica Precursor in the Cobalt Incorporation in Mesoporous Silica MCM-41 Used for the Synthesis of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Ramírez F.C., López B.L., Giraldo L.F., Universidad de Antioquia, CO

In this work several silica precursors have been used for the MCM-41 mesoporous silica synthesis, i.e. Cab-O-sil, sodium silicate and TEOS with incorporation of cobalt in-situ during the synthesis of the molecular sieves. The materials [...]

Modeling Process Variations Using a Compact Model

Murali R., Meindl J.D., Georgia Tech, US

Inclusion of manufacturing variations has become an important part of static timing analysis. Existing statistical timing analysis methods involve the use of time-consuming circuit simulations or use fit polynomials. Previous efforts at modeling parameter variations [...]

How To Design for Analog Yield using Monte Carlo Mismatch SPICE Models

Tan P.B.Y., Kordesch A.V., Sidek O., Silterra Malaysia Sdn Bhd, MY

The downscaling of devices causes the unpredictability of analog circuit yield. Transistor mismatch is one of the obstacles to achieving high yield. Analog circuit designers usually run Monte Carlo mismatch models to predict the functionality [...]

Yield Prediction Under Non-Standard Data Distributions

Rao S., Saxena S., Apte P., Mozumder P.K., Davis J., Burch R., Vasanth K., Texas Instruments, Inc., US

The trend towards smaller feature sizes has increased the need to accurately characterize the distribution of process and device responses to predict and improve yield [1]. The usual approach to characterization assumes that the response [...]