Low-k materials engineering for 10 nm technology node and beyond KU Leuven
A simple and yet indispensable part of every microelectronics chip is a multi-level wiring (interconnect) system built on top of the semiconductor device layer. This system is responsible for signal transmission between functional nodes of an integrated circuit. While in the early days of microelectronics the IC performance was largely defined by the operational speed of the devices built within the semiconductor surface, the decades of ...