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EPSRC Reference: GR/M99606/01
Title: ROPA: 3D SEMICONDUCTER DEVICES BASED ON SILICON ON SAPPHIRE TECHNOLOGY
Principal Investigator: Udrea, Professor F
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Department: Engineering
Organisation: University of Cambridge
Scheme: ROPA
Starts: 30 June 2000 Ends: 29 June 2002 Value (£): 102,909
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Electronic Devices & Subsys.
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Electronics
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This project aims at developing a new generation of silicon-based high voltage devices using actively the third dimension. Whereas classical semiconductor devices are based on the repetition of a 2D geometrical structure, the new 3D devices have a fundamental 3D functionality, which results in unprecedented high breakdown voltages and high current capabilities. The use of silicon on sapphire (SOS) technology offers an ideal solution for the application of the 3D device concept due to its excellent thick substrate isolation high thermal conductivity and low leakage currents. The 3D concept re-establishes the ideal limits of silicon, challenges the fundamental bases of semiconductor theory and stretches our own understanding to a new dimension.
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