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• Semiconductor device — Semiconductor devices are electronic components that exploit the electronic properties of semiconductor materials, principally silicon, germanium, and gallium arsenide. Semiconductor devices have replaced thermionic devices (vacuum tubes) in most …   Wikipedia

• Semiconductor device fabrication — Semiconductor manufacturing processes 10 µm 1971 3 µm 1975 1.5 µm 1982 …   Wikipedia

• Semiconductor device modeling — creates models for the behavior of the electrical devices based on fundamental physics, such as the doping profiles of the devices. It may also include the creation of compact models (such as the well known SPICE transistor models), which try to… …   Wikipedia

• Semiconductor process simulation — is the modeling of the fabrication of semiconductor devices such as transistors. It is a branch of electronic design automation, and part of a sub field known as technology CAD, or TCAD. 400px|right|thumb|This figure shows a result from… …   Wikipedia

• Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International — (SEMI) is a trade organization of manufacturers of equipment and materials used in the fabrication of semiconductor devices such as integrated circuits, transistors, diodes, and thyristors. Among other activities, SEMI acts as a clearinghouse for …   Wikipedia

• semiconductor device — ▪ electronics Introduction       electronic circuit component made from a material that is neither a good conductor nor a good insulator (hence semiconductor). Such devices have found wide applications because of their compactness, reliability,… …   Universalium

• semiconductor — /sem ee keuhn duk teuhr, sem uy /, n. 1. a substance, as silicon or germanium, with electrical conductivity intermediate between that of an insulator and a conductor: a basic component of various kinds of electronic circuit element (semiconductor …   Universalium

• Semiconductor — Citations missing|date=March 2008A semiconductor is a solid material that has electrical conductivity in between a conductor and an insulator; it can vary over that wide range either permanently or dynamically. [. They are used in many… …   Wikipedia

• Semiconductor curve tracer — The Type 575 Transistor Curve Tracer displays the dynamic characteristic curves of both NPN and PNP transistors on the screen of a 5 inch cathode ray tube. Several different transistor characteristic curves may be displayed, including the… …   Wikipedia

• Semiconductor industry — The semiconductor industry is the collection of business firms engaged in the design and fabrication of semiconductor devices. Once semiconductors became a viable business around 1960, following the first laboratory transistors, rapid… …   Wikipedia

• semiconductor memory — /ˌsɛmikənˌdʌktə ˈmɛmri/ (say .semeekuhn.duktuh memree) noun a computer memory with storage elements formed by integrated semiconductor devices …