Microelectronics International: Volume 37 Issue 2

Guest editorial

Agata Skwarek

Willemite with Li2CO3 as a sintering aid for LTCC microwave substrates

Beata Synkiewicz-Musialska

The purpose of this paper is to report on fabrication procedure and present microstructure and dielectric behavior of willemite ceramic material with addition of 5% Li₂CO₃ as a…

Multilayer ferrite inductors for the use at high temperatures

Heike Bartsch, Sebastian Thiele, Jens Mueller, Dirk Schabbel, Beate Capraro, Timmy Reimann, Steffen Grund, Jörg Töpfer

This paper aims to investigate the usability of the nickel copper zinc ferrite with the composition Ni_0.4Cu_0.2Zn_0.4Fe_1.98O_3.99 for the realization of high-temperature multilayer…

Additive manufacturing revolution in ceramic microsystems

Witold Nawrot, Karol Malecha

The purpose of this paper is to review possibilities of implementing ceramic additive manufacturing (AM) into electronic device production, which can enable great new…

Atomic layer deposition of TiO2 blocking layers for dye-sensitized solar cells

Aleksandra Drygała, Marek Szindler, Magdalena Szindler, Ewa Jonda

The purpose of this paper is to improve the efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) which present promising low-cost alternative to the conventional silicon solar cells…

Compact electrothermal model of laboratory made GaN Schottky diodes

Krzysztof Górecki, Paweł Górecki

The purpose of this paper is to propose a simple electrothermal model of GaN Schottky diodes, and its usefulness for circuit-level electrothermal simulation of laboratory-made…

Field effect transistor with thin AlOxNy film as gate dielectric

Piotr Firek, Jakub Szarafiński, Grzegorz Głuszko, Jan Szmidt

The purpose of this study is to directly measure and determine the Si/SiO2/AlOxNy interface state density on metal insulator semiconductor field effect transistor (MISFET…

Fabrication and characterization of mixed thin-/thick-film thermoelectric microgenerator based on constantan/chromium and silver arms

Mirosław Gracjan Gierczak, Eugeniusz Prociów, Andrzej Dziedzic

This paper aims to focus on the fabrication and characterization of mixed thin-/thick-film thermoelectric microgenerators, based on magnetron sputtered constantan (copper–nickel…