Author:
Li Cheng,Pan Zijin,Li Xunyu,Hao Weiquan,Miao Runyu,Wang Albert
Abstract
As the demands for improved performance of integrated circuit (IC) chips continue to increase, while technology scaling driven by Moore’s law is becoming extremely challenging, if not impractical or impossible, heterogeneous integration (HI) emerges as an attractive pathway to further enhance performance of Si-based complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) chips. The underlying basis for using HI technologies and structures is that IC performance goes well beyond classic logic functions; rather, functionalities and complexity of smart chips span across the full information chain, including signal sensing, conditioning, processing, storage, computing, communication, control, and actuation, which are required to facilitate comprehensive human–world interactions. Therefore, HI technologies can bring in more function diversifications to make system chips smarter within acceptable design constraints, including costs. Over the past two decades or so, a large number of HI technologies have been explored to increase heterogeneities in materials, technologies, devices, circuits, and system architectures, making it practically impossible to provide one single comprehensive review of everything in the field in one paper. This article chooses to offer a topical overview of selected HI structures that have been validated in CMOS platforms, including a stacked-via vertical magnetic-cored inductor structure in CMOSs, a metal wall structure in the back end of line (BEOL) of CMOSs to suppress global flying noises, an above-IC graphene nano-electromechanical system (NEMS) switch and nano-crossbar array electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection structure, and graphene ESD interconnects.
Subject
General Materials Science,General Chemical Engineering
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