IME presented 5 papers and 1 invited paper in 2009 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), held from 7th - 9th December 2009. In the invited talk by Prof. Dim-Lee Kwong, Executive Director of IME, Prof. Kwong reviewed the current status of EPIC in IME as well as the advancements made world-wide in the last few years. As the traditional copper interconnects faces the challenges of severe information latency and power consumption, it imposes an impending threat to keep up with the performance roadmap of the Moore's Law. The convergence of electronic and photonic integrated circuits on a single chip Si technology platform would be one promising approach which could be realised by taking advantage of the low energy and huge data capability of optical interconnects.
Prof. Kwong discussed the fundamental photonics building blocks (i.e. High Performance Ge-Based Photodetectors, Low Power and High Speed Si Modulators, Si-Based Optical Source and Passive Photonics Components) that were successfully developed by IME for the demonstration and successful development of low-cost EPIC platform, and the integration strategy and approaches for EPIC to meet the bandwidth and energy requirements of data communication in future technology nodes. Prof. Kwong concluded with an outlook on the future of monolithic integration of Si Micro- and Nano-Photonics.
Other papers presented in IEDM included
| 1. Modeling of Stress-Retarded Orientation-Dependent Oxidation: Shape Engineering of Silicon Nanowire Channels | | | 2. Surface Nanostructure Optimization for Solar Energy Harvesting in Si Thin Film Based Solar Cells | | | 3. Excimer Laser-Annealed Dopant Segregated Schottky (ELA-DSS) Si Nanowire Gate-All-Around (GAA) pFET with Near Zero Effective Schottky Barrier Height | | | 4. CMOS Compatible Ge/Si Core/Shell Nanowire pFET Integrated with HfO2/TAN Gate Stack | | | 5. Highly Sensitive and Selective Label-Free Detection of Cardiac Biomarkers in Blood Serum with Silicon Nanowire Biosensors |
|
