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Why Fathom Light uses LiDAR in Long Range Airborne Applications
Why it makes sense to use LiDAR technology instead of radar in unmanned drones.
Mar 9
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Vikram Sekar
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The Gigabit Wall: No More Need for Speed
No, we don't need mobile data rates faster than 1 Gb/s and three upcoming wireless technologies that are actively focused on features other than speed.
Mar 2
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Vikram Sekar
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The Gigabit Wall: No More Need for Speed
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February 2025
First Impressions from 2025 ISSCC
"The Silicon Engine Driving the AI revolution," plenary talks and overall thoughts about the conference.
Feb 23
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Vikram Sekar
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Why Citing Yield Without Die Area is Meaningless
Pat Gelsinger's field notes, and how defect density is a more meaningful metric for yield.
Feb 16
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Vikram Sekar
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Jack Huang
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The Rise of 800V Electric Vehicles and Role of Silicon Carbide
Exploring the engineering merits of higher voltage battery systems for next-generation EVs, and the benefits and challenges involved in using high…
Feb 9
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Vikram Sekar
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The Rise of 800V Electric Vehicles and Role of Silicon Carbide
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Semiconductor Doping, Electron Affinity, Work Function and Anderson's Rule
Controlling the energy levels in semiconductors, and learning to draw energy band diagrams from intrinsic material properties.
Feb 2
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Vikram Sekar
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Semiconductor Doping, Electron Affinity, Work Function and Anderson's Rule
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January 2025
Understanding Energy Bands in Semiconductors
Valence and conduction bands, forbidden and Fermi energies, density of states, Fermi-Dirac statistics.
Jan 26
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Vikram Sekar
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Understanding Energy Bands in Semiconductors
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The Joy of Semiconductor Devices
A first principles based, continuously evolving, beginners guide to solid state physics and transistor devices.
Jan 26
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Vikram Sekar
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The Joy of Semiconductor Devices
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January 2025: Margin Notes on Optics
Broken undersea cables, imaging electrons with attosecond pulses, affordable lidar for automotive, peacock-inspired semiconductor lasers that cut steel…
Jan 19
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Vikram Sekar
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January 2025: Margin Notes on Optics
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How Dennard Scaling Allowed Transistors to Shrink
A detailed explanation of Robert Dennard's exact rules to scale a MOS-transistor's dimensions that resulted in more transistors on a single chip without…
Jan 12
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How Dennard Scaling Allowed Transistors to Shrink
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Ruthenium: The Next Step in Interconnects for Advanced Logic Nodes?
Why ruthenium is emerging as an alternative to copper for low-level metal interconnects as pitch drops below 20-nm in sub 2-nm class advanced technology…
Jan 5
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Vikram Sekar
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Ruthenium: The Next Step in Interconnects for Advanced Logic Nodes?
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