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Free Download Silicon Components and Processes Self Study: Integrated High-Voltage Transistors and Passive Components by Badih El-Kareh , Lou N. Hutter
English | PDF (True) | 2024 | 412 Pages | ISBN : 303159200X | 29.1 MB
This book is one of a series of five volumes forming an integrated, self-study course on silicon device physics, modes of operation, characterization, and fabrication. The series is based on many years of the author’s experience in academic and industrial teaching of semiconductors. The books are suitable for both class-teaching and self-study. The authors have designed the content to enable readers to be introduced gradually to semiconductors, in particular silicon components. The presentation includes many illustrations, practical examples, review questions and problems at the end of each chapter. Answers to review questions and solutions to problems will be provided for "self-check".

Free Download Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War by Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
English | July 9, 2024 | ISBN: 1668031388 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 1.8 MB
A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon-the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X-whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge technology to America’s military: from the two men who launched the unit.

Free Download Benedetto Vigna, Paolo Ferrari, Flavio Francesco Villa, "Silicon Sensors and Actuators: The Feynman Roadmap"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030801349, 3030801373 | PDF | pages: 987 | 40.4 mb
This book thoroughly reviews the present knowledge on silicon micromechanical transducers and addresses emerging and future technology challenges. Readers will acquire a solid theoretical and practical background that will allow them to analyze the key performance aspects of devices, critically judge a fabrication process, and then conceive and design new ones for future applications. Envisioning a future complex versatile microsystem, the authors take inspiration from Richard Feynman’s visionary talk "There is Plenty of Room at the Bottom" to propose that the time has come to see silicon sensors as part of a "Feynman Roadmap" instead of the "More-than-Moore" technology roadmap. The sharing of the author’s industrially proven track record of development, design, and manufacturing, along with their visionary approach to the technology, will allow readers to jump ahead in their understanding of the core of the topic in a very effective way. Students, researchers, engineers, and technologists involved in silicon-based sensor and actuator research and development will find a wealth of useful and groundbreaking information in this book.

Free Download Arun Rao, Piero Scaruffi, "A History of Silicon Valley: The Greatest Creation of Wealth in the History of the Planet, 2nd Edition"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1490330402 | PDF | pages: 707 | 5.6 mb
This book is the first history of Silicon Valley from 1900 to 2013. It is a comprehensive study of the greatest creation of wealth in the history of the planet. It gives a chronological narrative covering a century of innovation and entrepreneurship, from the establishment of Stanford University to the age of Google and Facebook. A group of case studies describes innovations and narratives about radio, the US defense industry, HP, microchips, Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, venture capital, Xerox PARC, software, Apple Computer, and the internet. Silicon Valley did not happen in a vacuum: this book also explores the surrounding social and cultural environment of the Bay Area.

Free Download Luis Bathen, "Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference: Third Conference, SVCC 2022, Virtual Event, August 17-19, 2022, Revised Selecte"
English | ISBN: 3031240480 | 2022 | 146 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This open access book constitutes refereed proceedings of the Third Conference on Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference, SVCC 2022, held as virtual event, in August 17-19, 2022.

Free Download Sang-Yoon Chang, "Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference: Second Conference, SVCC 2021, San Jose, CA, USA, December 2-3, 2021, Revised Se"
English | ISBN: 3030960560 | 2022 | 168 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book constitutes selected and revised papers from the Second Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference, held in San Jose, USA, in December 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held in a virtual format.

Free Download Eric Kerhervé, Yann Deval, "Reconfigurable RF Power Amplifiers on Silicon for Wireless Handsets"
English | 2011 | pages: 184 | ISBN: 9400704240, 9400734999 | PDF | 6,7 mb
Reconfigurable RF Power Amplifiers on Silicon for Wireless Handsets is intended to designers and researchers who have to tackle the efficiency/linearity trade-off in modern RF transmitters so as to extend their battery lifetime. High data rate 3G/4G standards feature broad channel bandwidths, high dynamic range and critical envelope variations which generally forces the power amplifier (PA) to operate in a low efficiency "backed-off" regime. Classic efficiency enhancement techniques such as Envelope Elimination and Restoration reveal to be little compliant with handset-dedicated PA implementation due to their channel-bandwidth-limited behavior and their increased die area consumption and/or bill-of-material. The architectural advances that are proposed in this book circumvent these issues since they put the stress on low die-area /low power-consumption control circuitry. The advantages of silicon over III/V technologies are highlighted by several analogue signal processing techniques that can be implemented on-chip with a power amplifier. System-level and transistor-level simulations are combined to illustrate the principles of the proposed power adaptive solutions. Measurement on BICMOS demonstrators allows validating the functionality of dynamic linearity/efficiency management. In Reconfigurable RF Power Amplifiers on Silicon for Wireless Handsets, PA designers will find a review of technologies, architectures and theoretical formalisms (Volterra series…) that are traditionally related to PA design. Specific issues that one encounters in power amplifiers (such as thermal / memory effects, stability, VSWR sensitivity…) and the way of overcoming them are also extensively considered throughout this book.

Free Download Silicon Components and Processes Self Study: Unit Processes and Process Integration by Badih El-Kareh , Lou N. Hutter
English | PDF (True) | 2024 | 637 Pages | ISBN : 3031592182 | 23.7 MB
This book is one of a series of five volumes forming an integrated, self-study course on silicon device physics, modes of operation, characterization, and fabrication. The series is based on many years of the author’s experience in academic and industrial teaching of semiconductors. The books are suitable for both class-teaching and self-study. The authors have designed the content to enable readers to be introduced gradually to semiconductors, in particular silicon components. The presentation includes many illustrations, practical examples, review questions and problems at the end of each chapter. Answers to review questions and solutions to problems will be provided for "self-check".

Free Download Handbook of Porous Silicon, Second Edition by Leigh Canham
English | EPUB | 2018 | 1578 Pages | ISBN : 3319713795 | 125 MB
This handbook updates the most fast-moving research areas of porous silicon research, introduces a range of brand new topics not reviewed before and is even more inclusive of worldwide centres of expertise. Rapid advances are being made in porous silicon anodes for lithium batteries, biodegradable nanoparticles and nanoneedles for medical therapy and imaging, energetics and bio-diagnostic techniques.

Free Download Silicon, From Sand to Chips 2
by Alain Vignes
English | 2024 | ISBN: 178630922X | 188 pages | True PDF EPUB | 59.77 MB