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| What term is used to characterize decreasing component size in integrated circuit technology? |
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Moore’s Law states that the rule of thumb in the history of computing hardware where the number of transistors that can be
placed inexpensively on an IC doubles approximately every ____ years. |
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| The smallest feature size that is printed on the wafer surface during the fabrication process is called |
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| Which is not an enabler of Moore’s Law |
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| decreasing circuit complexity over time |
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| The average human hair is how many microns thick? |
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An integrated circ
uit is often called any of the following except: |
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| Lithography and gas phase diffusion were the two essential processes that made planar IC’s possible. |
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| A MOS transistor offers all of the following over BJT’s except: |
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Most of the fabrication of a CMOS integrated circuit occurs within the top 8
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13 microns of the 500 micron thick silicon
substrate wafer |
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The electrical length of a Teflon coated co
pper wire is ________ the electrical length of the same physical length copper wire
on a silicon substrate
, indicating that electrical signals travel __________ on silicon that through a Teflon coated copper wire |
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What is
arguably the
single most important technology in IC manufacturing? |
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| Approximately what percentage of the wafer manufacturing cost is tied up in lithography? |
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The patterning process consists of
all the following except? |
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Which is not one of
the three types of exposure systems used in modern
UV
fabrication processes? |
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| Which is not considered one of the exposure tool metrics |
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Projection is the
dominant
system in use today and its performance is usually described in terms of all the following except? |
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What type of resist is usually
identified as “what you see is what you get”? |
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Which is not a
Defect Classification
with respect to masks? |
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| Which lithography method is not considered and advanced lithography technology? |
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| projection printing lithography |
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| Which of the following statements is NOT correct with respect to SiO2? |
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| SiO2 is a poor insulator and bulk layers have unstable properties |
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