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INTERVIEW
AMD & SOI: Winning with Performance/Watt/Dollar.
VP Nick Kepler talks about the role of SOI in the company’s strategy.
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Honeywell & SOI: Military, Aerospace and Beyond.
The company’s SOI rad-hard foundry services are charting new frontiers with the industry’s first 150 nm rad-hard, digital ASIC solutions and more.

Partners In Design: Standard Tools Simplify Rad-Hard SOI Design.
Rick Veres, Honeywell EDA Manager, talks about the process design kits (PDKs) developed with the top EDA tool vendors.
ON THE CIRCUIT PROFESSOR'S PERSPECTIVE
 
Freescale’s Bich-Yen Nguyen describes a selective biaxial-uniaxial strain hybridization method that significantly enhances drive current without adding process complexity.		  
Eugene Fitzgerald of MIT looks at the path to higher NMOS and PMOS enhancements.
R&D OUTLOOK SHOPTALK
 
Soitec’s Ian Cayrefourcq talks about the company’s current 300mm sSOI wafer production.		  
Dr. Patrick Kelly of OMI on photoreflectance, a new approach to in-line sSOI metrology.
E2E
 
Technology from TraciT paves the way for new MEMS and power IC substrates.

A processed SOI layer
transferred onto a 200 mm
fused silica wafer
(Courtesy: TraciT Technologies)
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Tribute to Soitec Co-Founder Jean-Michel Lamure.
The memory of an SOI champion lives on.

Jean-Michel Lamure
1948-2006
 


SOI innovators again lead the pack at EETimes Ace Awards, with honors for Freescale, IBM and Microsoft. 		 
EDITORIAL
Leading companies find that SOI keeps opening doors.
PAPERLINKS
Strained SOI and FinFETs top the list of hot research topics.
Pertinent reading from TI, Freescale, IBM, Intel, Soitec and more.

MEMS

The IBM Zurich Research Lab’s Probe Storage (a.k.a. “millipede”) leverages SOI to extend the AFM concept to data storage.

Close-up of a cantilever in an array
taken with an optical microscope
(Courtesy: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory)
GUEST SPOT
Analysts at Yole forecast momentum in the SOI MEMS market.
III-V CORNER
KORRIGAN Federates European GaN Efforts. Researchers from the French Defense Procurement Agency and Thales describe the seven-nation consortium.

Picogiga’s Jean-Luc Ledys talks about innovative GaN RF substrate opportunities in KORRIGAN and other programs.

Helios II. A new generation in optical surveillance military satellites, developed by France, Spain and Belgium (© EADS Astrium)
DESIGNER'S CORNER
CISSOID describes how new SOI-based chips for Avionic & Space Harsh Environments are reaching record operating temperatures.