Wolfgang Fichtner, Professor for Electronics
Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH Zürich
Publications
Wolfgang Fichtner has authored and co-authored over 550 reviewed journal and conference papers. He has also been editor of 4 books and author of 8 book chapters.
Publications in 2011
N. Sato, Y. Sato, Y. Kado, M. Ciappa, D. Aemmer, H. Kaeslin, and W. Fichtner
A Multi-level CMOS MEMS Design Methodology Based on Response Surface Models
Accepted for publication in the Journal of Microelectromechnical Systems 2011
P. Kreuter, B. Witzigmann und W. Fichtner
Towards Frequency Domain Modeling of Mode-Locking in Semiconductor Lasers
Accepted for publication in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 201
Publications in 2010
IC and System Design and Test
L. Henzen and W. Fichtner
FPGA Parallel-Pipelined AES-GCM Core for 100G Ethernet Applications,
Proc. of IEEE ESSCIRC, Sevilla, Spain, Sep 2010K.
Technology CAD
Vollenweider, B. Sahli, W. Fichtner
Ab Initio Calculations of Arseic in Silicon: Diffusion Mechanism and Strain Dependence,
Physical Review, vol. 81, May 2010
Physical Characterization
M. Ciappa, A. Koschik, M. Dapor, W. Fichtner
Modeling Secondary Electron Images for Linewidth Measurement by Critical Dimension Scanning Electron Microscopy,
Proc. of 2010 21st European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics and Analysis, Monte Cassino, Italy, vol. 21, pp. 1407-1412, Oct 2010
M. Ciappa, A. Koschik, A. Esposito, W. Fichtner
Monte Carlo Modeling of Linewidth Metrology in Critical Dimension Scanning Electron Microscopes,
Proc. of 2010 E-MRS Fall Meeting - Multidimensional electrical and chemical characterization at the nanometer-scale of organic and inorganic semiconductors, Warsaw, Poland, Oct 2010
M. Ciappa, L. Mangiacapra, A. Lupi, W. Fichtner, M. Stangoni, S. Ott
Experimental Extraction of Accelerator Parameters for Accurate Model Calibration in the Numerical 3D Simulation of Electron Beam Crosslinking of Cables and Wires,
Proc. of 9th Meeting of the Ionizing Radiation and Polymers Symposium (IRAP), College Park, MA, USA, Oct 2010
M. Dapor, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner
Monte Carlo Modeling in the Low-Energy Domain of the Secondary Electron Emission of Polymethylmethacrylate for Critical-Dimension Scanning Electron Microscopy,
SPIE Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 0230011-0230019, Feb 2010
A. Koschik, M. Ciappa, S. Holzer, M. Dapor, W. Fichtner
A Novel Monte Carlo Simulation Code for Linewidth Measurement in Critical Dimension Scanning Electron Microscopy,
Proc. of Scanning Microscopy 2010 (SPIE Conference 7729), Monterey, CA, USA, May 2010
V. Malandruccolo, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner, H. Rothleitner
A new Built-In Defect-Based Testing Technique to Achieve Zero-Defects in the Automotive Environment,
Journal of Electronic Testing (JETTA), Dec 2010
V. Malandruccolo, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner, H. Rothleitner
In Situ Defect-Screening of Integrated LDMOS for Critical Automotive Applications,
Proc. of IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices & ICs (ISPSD), Hiroshima, Japan, vol. 22, pp. 285-288, Jun 2010
V. Malandruccolo, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner, H. Rothleitner
Novel Built-In Methodology for Defect Testing of Capacitor Oxide in SAR Analog to Digital Converters for Critical Automotive Applications,
Proc. of IEEE 15th European Test Symposium (ETS 2010), Prag, Czech Republic, vol. 15, pp. 170-174, May 2010
V. Malandruccolo, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner, H. Rothleitner
A Novel Built-In Methodology for the Screening of Gate Oxide and Crystal Defects to Achieve Zero Defects in the Automotive Environment,
Proc. of 6th International Conference on Integrated Power Electronics Systems (CIPS), Nuremberg, Germany, vol. 6, Mar 2010
V. Malandruccolo, M. Ciappa, H. Rothleitner, W. Fichtner
A Novel Built-In Methodology for Screening LDMOS Transistors to Achieve Zero Defects in the Automotive Environment,
Proc. of International Conference in Integrated Power Electronic Systems (CIPS), Nuremberg, Germany, Mar 2010
V. Malandruccolo, M. Ciappa, H. Rothleitner, M. Hommel, W. Fichtner
A New Built-In Screening Methodology for Successive Approximation Register Analog to Digital Converters,
Microelectronics Reliability Journal, Oct 2010
V. Malandruccolo, M. Ciappa, H. Rothleitner, M. Hommel, W. Fichtner
A New Built-In Screening Methodology for Successive Approximation Register Analog to Digital Converters,
Proc. of 2010 21st European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics and Analysis, Monte Cassino, Italy, vol. 21, pp. 1750-1757, Oct 2010
L. Mangiacapra, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner, M. Stangoni, S. Ott
Fine Tuning of Electron Beam Crosslinking of Electrical Cables and Wires by Three-Dimensional Monte Carlo Modeling,
Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Electrical Insulation 2010 (ISEI 2010), San Diego, CA, USA, no. 978, pp. 106-110, Jun 2010
L. Mangiacapra, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner, M. Stangoni, S. Ott
Three-Dimensional Modeling of Dose Deposition in Electron Beam Crosslinking Processes,
Proc. of 9th Meeting of the Ionizing Radiation and Polymers Symposium (IRAP), College Park, MA, USA, Oct 2010
Y. Sasaki, M. Ciappa, T. Masunaga, W. Fichtner
Accurate Extraction of the Mechanical Properties of Thin Films by Nanoindentation for the Design of Reliable MEMS,
Proc. of 2010 21st European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics and Analysis, Monte Cassino, Italy, vol. 21, pp. 1621-1625, Oct 2010
Y. Sasaki, M. Ciappa, T. Masunaga, W. Fichtner
Accurate Extraction of the Mechanical Properties of Thin Films by Nanoindentation for the Design of Reliable MEMS,
Microelectronics Reliability, vol. 50, pp. 1621-1625, Oct 2010
Bio-Electromagnetics and EMC
M. Wegmüller, M. Oberle, N. Felber, N. Kuster, W. Fichtner
Signal Transmission by Galvanic Coupling Through the Human Body,
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 963-969, Apr 2010
Publications in 2009
IC and System Design and Test
M. Bernet, L. Henzen, H. Kaeslin, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
Hardware Implementations of the SHA-3 Candidates Shabal and CubeHash,
Proc. of IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Cancun, Mexico, Aug 2009
S. Eberli, A. Burg, W. Fichtner
Implementation of a 2x2 MIMO-OFDM Receiver on an Application Specific Processor,
Microelectronics Journal, vol. 40, no. 11, pp. 1642-1649, Nov 2009
L. Henzen, F. Carbognani, J.P. Aumasson, S. ONeil, W. Fichtner
VLSI Implementations of the Cryptographic Hash Functions MD6 and irRUPT,
Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and System (ISCAS), Taipei, Taiwan, May 2009
L. Henzen, F. Carbognani, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
Hardware Evaluation of the Stream Cipher-based Hash Functions RadioGatun and irRUPT,
Proc. of IEEE Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), Nice, France, Apr 2009
J. P Aumasson, I. Dinur, L. Henzen, W. Meier, A. Shamir
Efficient FPGA Implementations of High-Dimensional Cube Testers on the Stream Cipher Grain-128,
Proc. of Special-purpose Hardware for Attacking Cryptographic Systems (SHARCS), Lausanne, Switzerland, Sep 2009
C. Studer
Iterative MIMO Decoding: Algorithms and VLSI Implementation Aspects,
PhD Thesis ETH-No. 18512, Hartung-Gorre Printing House, Konstanz, Germany, 2009
M. Wenk, P. Lüthi, T. Koch, P. Mächler, M. Lerjen, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
Hardware Platform and Implementation of a Real-Time Multi-User MIMO-OFDM Testbed,
Proc. of International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 789-792, May 2009
Bio-Electromagnetics and EMC
M. Wegmüller, S. Huclova, J. Fröhlich, M. Oberle, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
Galvanic Coupling Enabling Wireless Implant Communications,
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 58, no. 8, pp. 2618-2625, Aug 2009
M.S. Wegmüller, M. Oberle, N. Felber, N. Kuster, W. Fichtner
Signal Transmission by Galvanic Coupling Through the Human Body,
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 99, no. 99, pp. 1-9, Oct 2009
Technology CAD
K. Vollenweider, B. Sahli, W. Fichtner
Ab Initio Calculations of Arseic in Silicon: Diffusion Mechanism and Strain Dependence,
Physical Review, vol. B81, May 2010
Physical Characterization
M. Ciappa, L. Mangiacapra, M. Stangoni, S. Ott, W. Fichtner
Ensuring the Reliability of Electron Beam Crosslinked Electric Cables by the Optimization of the Dose Depth Distribution with Monte Carlo Simulation,
Proc. of Poster Presentation at 20th European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics and Analysis (ESREF), Arcachon, France, pp. 972-976, Oct 2009
M. Ciappa, L. Mangiacapra, M. Stangoni, S. Ott, W. Fichtner
Ensuring the Reliability of Electron Beam Crosslinked Electric Cables by the Optimization of the Dose Depth Distribution with Monte Carlo Simulation,
Microelectronics Reliability, vol. 49, pp. 972-976, Oct 2009
H. Kubo, M. Ciappa, T. Masunaga, W. Fichtner
Multiscale Simulation of Aluminum Thin Films for the Design of Highly-Reliable MEMS Devices,
Proc. of 20th European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics and Analysis (ESEREF), Arcachon, France, pp. 1278-1282, Oct 2009
H. Kubo, M. Ciappa, T. Masunaga, W. Fichtner
Multiscale Simulation of Aluminum Thin Films for the Design of Highly-Reliable MEMS Devices,
Microelectronics Reliability, vol. 49, pp. 1278-1282, Oct 2009
V. Malandruccolo, M. Ciappa, H. Rothleitner, W. Fichtner
Screening of Gate Oxides in Smart Power Devices for Automative Applications,
Proc. of IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS), Montreal, Canada, vol. 47, pp. 573-578, Apr 2009
V. Malandruccolo, M. Ciappa, H. Rothleitner, W. Fichtner
Novel Solution for the Built-in Gate Oxide Stress Test of LDMOS in Integrated Circuits for Automotive Applications,
Proc. of IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS), Sevilla, Spain, May 2009
V. Malandruccolo, M. Ciappa, H. Rothleitner, W. Fichtner
A New Built-In Screening Methodology to Achieve Zero Defects in the Automotive Environment,
Proc. of European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics and Analysis (ESREF), Arcachon, France, pp. 1334-1340, Oct 2009
A New Built-In Screening Methodology to Achieve Zero Defects in the Automotive Environment,
Microelectronics Reliability, vol. 49, pp. 1334-1340, Oct 2009
Publications in 2008
IC and System Design and Test
F. Carbognani, F. Bürgin, N. Felber, H. Kaeslin, W. Fichtner
A Low-Power Transmission-Gate-Based 16-bit Multiplier for Digital Hearing Aids,
Analog Circuits and Signal Processing edited by Springer, vol. 56, no. 1, Aug 2008
F. Carbognani, F. Bürgin, N. Felber, H. Kaeslin, W. Fichtner
Transmission Gates Combined with Level-Restoring CMOS Gates Reduce Glitches in Low-Power Low-Frequency Multipliers,
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 830-836, Jul 2008
S. Eberli, D. Cescato, W. Fichtner
Divide-and-Conquer Matrix Inversion for Linear MMSE Detection in SDR MIMO Receivers,
Proc. of NORCHIP 2008, Tallinn, Estonia, Nov 2008
L. Henzen, F. Carbognani, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
FPGA Implementation of a 2G Fibre Channel Link Encryptor with Authenticated Encryption Mode GCM,
Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on System-on-Chip, Tampere, Finland, Nov 2008
L. Henzen, F. Carbognani, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
VLSI Hardware Evaluation of the Stream Ciphers Salsa20 and ChaCha, and the Compression Function Rumba,
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Signals, Circuits & Systems, Hammamet, Tunisia, Nov 2008
L. Henzen, F. Carbognani, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
Hardware Comparison of the Hash Function Candidates RADIOGATUN, MAME, and LAKE,
Proc. of IEEE NORCHIP, Tallinn, Estonia, Nov 2008
P. Luethi, C. Studer, S. Duetsch, E. Zgraggen, H. Kaeslin, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
Gram-Schmidt-based QR Decomposition for MIMO Detection: VLSI Implementation and Comparison,
Proc. of IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), Macao, China, pp. 830-833, Nov 2008
P. Luethi, M. Wenk, T. Koch, M. Lerjen, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
Multi-User MIMO Testbed,
Proc. of ACM MobiCom’08 / WiNTECH’08 Workshop, San Francisco, CA, USA, pp. 109-110, Sep 2008
C. Senning, C. Studer, P. Luethi, W. Fichtner
Hardware-Efficient Steering Matrix Computation Architecture for MIMO Communication Systems,
Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seattle, Washington, USA, May 2008
C. Studer, A. Burg, H. Bölcskei
Soft-output Sphere Decoding: Algorithms and VLSI Implementation,
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 26, no. 2, Apr 2008
C. Studer, P. Luethi, W. Fichtner
VLSI Architecture for Data-Reduced Steering Matrix Feedback in MIMO Systems,
Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seattle, Washington, USA, May 2008
Technology CAD
W. Fichtner
Overview of Technology Computer-Aided Design Tools and Applications in Technology Development, Manufacturing and Design
Accepted for publication in Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 2008
M. Luisier, A. Schenk, W. Fichtner, T. Boykin ang G. Klimeck
A Parallel Sparse Linear Solver for Nearest-Neighbor Tight-binding Problems
Submitted to Europar 2008, Gran Canaria, Spain, August 2008.
Physical Characterization
A. Castellazzi, E. Batista, M. Ciappa, J.M. Dienot, M. Mermet-Guyennet, W. Fichtner
Full Electro-Thermal Model of a 6.5kV Field-Stop IGBT Module,
Proc. of Poster Presentation at the 39th IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, Rhodes, Greece, Jun 2008
A. Castellazzi, M. Ciappa, M. Mermet-Guyennet, W. Fichtner
VHDL-AMS Simulation of Integrated Power Systems: a Unified Solution for Multi-Domain Multi-Level Abstraction Analysis,
Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Integrated Power Electronics Systems, Nuernberg, Germany, Mar 2008
L. Dalessandro, N. Karrer, M. Ciappa, A. Castellazzi, W. Fichtner
Online and Offline Isolated Current Monitoring of Parallel Switched High-Voltage Multi-Chip IGBT Modules,
Proc. of Poster Presentation at the 39th IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC 2008), Rhodes, Greece, Jun 2008
Publications in 2007
IC and System Design and Test
C. Hess, M. Wenk, A. Burg, P. Lüthi, C. Studer, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
Reduced-Complexity MIMO Detector with Close-to ML Error Rate Performance
Proceedings of ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), Stresa-Lago Maggiore, Italy, Mar 2007.
A. Burg, S. Haene, W. Fichtner, M. Rupp
Regularized Frequency Domain Equalization Algorithm and its VLSI Implementation
Proceedings of IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, New Orleans, LA, USA, May 2007.
S. Häne, A. Burg, P. Luethi, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
FFT Processor for OFDM Channel Estimation
Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, New Orleans, LA, USA, pp. 1417-1420, May 2007.
P. Lüthi, A. Burg, S. Häne, D. Perels, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
VLSI Implementation of a High-Speed Iterative Sorted MMSE QR Decomposition
Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), New Orleans, LA, USA, May 2007.
D. Perels, C. Studer, W. Fichtner
Implementation of a Low-Complexity Frame-Start Detection Algorithm for MIMO Systems
Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, pp. 1903-1906, May 2007.
F. Carbognani, F. Bürgin, N. Felber, H. Kaeslin, W. Fichtner
Two-Phase Clocking Combined with Sleep Transistors Reduces Active Leakage in Low-Frequency Portable Applications
Proceedings of 50th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Montréal, Québec, Canada, pp. 964-967, Aug 2007.
S. Eberli, A. Burg, T. Boesch, W. Fichtner
An IEEE 802.11a Baseband Receiver Implementation on an Application Specific Processor
Proceedings of IEEE Midwest Symposium on circuit & Systems, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, pp. 1324-1327, Aug 2007.
S. Häne, D. Perels, W. Fichtner
System-Level Characterization of a Real-Time 4x4 MIMO-OFDM Transceiver on FPGA
Proceedings of European Signal Processing Conference, Poznan, Poland, pp. 1146-1150, Sep 2007.
F. Carbognani, F. B ürgin, N. Felber, H. Kaeslin, W. Fichtner
A Low-Power Transmission-Gate-Based 16-bit Multiplier for Digital Hearing Aids
Analog Circuits and Signal Processing edited by Springer, Dec 2007.
F. Carbognani, F. Bürgin, N. Felber, H. Kaeslin, W. Fichtner
Transmission Gates Combined with Level-Restoring CMOS Gates Reduce Glitches in Low-Power Low-Frequency Multipliers
IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Dec 2007.
Technology CAD
S. Röllin and W. Fichtner
Improving the accuracy of GMRES with deflated restarting
SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 30(1) 232-245, 2007
W. Fichtner
Design for Manufacturing - or Was it Manufacturing for Design (Keynote Address)
Proceedings of Photomask 2007, Yokohama, Japan, Apr 2007.
M. Luisier, A. Schenk, W. Fichtner
Atomistic treatment of interface roughness in Si nanowire transistors with different channel orientations
Applied Physics Letters, vol. 90, pp. 102-103, Mar 2007.
M. Luisier, G. Klimeck, A. Schenk, W. Fichtner
Transport Calculation of Semiconductor Nanowires Coupled to Quantum Well Reservoirs
Journal of Computational Electronics, vol. 6, pp. 199, Sep 2007.
M. Luisier, A. Schenk, W. Fichtner
Full-band atomistic study of source-to-drain tunneling in Si nanowire transistors
Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD), Vienna, Austria, Sep 2007.
K. Suzuki, Y. Tada, Y. Kataoka, K. Kawamura, T. Nagayama, S. Nagayama, C.W. Magee, T.H. Büyüklimanli, D.C. Müller, W. Fichtner, C. Zechner
Maximum Active Concentration of Ion-Implanted Phosphorus During Solid-Phase Epitaxial Recrystallization
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 43, no. 8, Aug 2007.
L. Sponton, L. Bomholt, W. Fichtner
Analysis of Process-Geometry Modulations through 3D TCAD
Proceeding of SISPAD, Wien, Austria, Sep 2007
M. Luisier, A. Schenk, W. Fichtner
Three-dimensional Modeling of Gate Leakage in Si Nanowire Transistors
Proc. of IEDM, Washington, USA, Dec 2007.
M. Luisier, A. Schenk, W. Fichtner
Atomistic Simulation of Nanowire Transistors
Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Dec 2007.
Physical Characterization
A. Castellazzi, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner, G. Lourdel, M. Mermet-Guyennet
Comprehensive Electro-Thermal Compact Model of a 3.3kV-1200A IGBT-Module
Proceedings of International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (Powereng 2007), Setubal, Portugal, Apr 2007.
M. Buzzo, M. Ciappa, J. Millan, P. Godignon, W. Fichtner
Two-dimensional Dopant Imaging of Silicon Carbide Devices by Secondary Electron Potential Contrast
Microelectronic Engineering, vol. 84, pp. 39-44, May 2007.
M. Buzzo, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner
Secondary Electron Potential Contrast in Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors: More than Just Dopant Profiling with the SEM
Electronic Device Failure Analisys EDFAS - ASM, vol. 2, pp. 19-24, May 2007.
A. Castellazzi, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner, E. Batista, J.M. Dienot, M. Mermet-Guyennet
Electro-thermal model of a high-voltage IGBT module for realistic simulation of power converters
Proceedings of 37th European Solid-State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC 2007), Munich, Germany, Sep 2007.
A. Castellazzi, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner, M. Piton, M. Mermet-Guyennet
A study of the threshold-voltage suitability as an application-related reliability indicator for planar-gate non-punch-through IGBTs
Microelectronics Reliability 47(2007), 1713-1718, Sep 2007.
D. Barlini, M. Ciappa, M. Mermet-Guyennet, W. Fichtner
Measurement of the Static and of the Transient Junction Temperature in MOSFET Devices Under Operating Conditions
Proceedings of 18th European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics, and Analysis (ESREF), Arcachon, France, vol. 18, pp. 1717-1722, Oct 2007.
E. Batista, A. Castellazzi, J.M. Dienot, M. Ciappa, M. Mermet-Guyennet, W. Fichtner
Accurate mixed electrical and electromagnetic model of a 6,5kV IGBT module
Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Power Electronics, Daegu, South Korea, Oct 2007.
A. Castellazzi, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner, M. Piton, M. Mermet-Guyennet
A study of the threshold-voltage suitability as an application-related reliability indicator for planar-gate non-punch-through IGBTs
Proceedings of 18th European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics, and Analysis (ESREF), Arcachon - Bordeaux, France, Oct 2007.
Bio-Electromagnetics and EMC
M.S. Wegmüller, M. Hediger, T. Kaufmann, M. Oberle, N. Kuster, W. Fichtner
Investigation on Coupling Strategies for Wireless Implant Communications
Proceedings of Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (IMTC), Warsaw, Poland, May 2007.
M.S. Wegmüller, M. Hediger, T. Kaufmann, F. Bürgin, W. Fichtner
Wireless Implant Communications for Biomedical Monitoring Sensor Network
Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, pp. 809-812, May 2007.
M.S. Wegmüller, A. Kuhn, J. Froehlich, M. Oberle, N. Felber, N. Kuster, W. Fichtner
An Attempt to Model the Human Body as a Communication Channel
IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 54, no. 10, pp. 1851-1857, Oct 2007.
Publications in 2006
IC and System Design and Test
A. Burg, S. Häne, D. Perels, P. Lüthi, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
Algorithm and VLSI Architecture for Linear MMSE Detection in MIMO-OFDM Systems
Proceedings of the IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Kos, Greece, pp. 4102-4105, May 2006.
A. Burg, M. Wenk, W. Fichtner
VLSI Implementation of Pipelined Sphere Decoding with Early Termination
Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conf., Florence, Italy, Sep 2006.
F. Bürgin, F. Carbognani, M. Hediger, H. Meier, R. Meyer-Piening, R. Santschi, H. Kaeslin, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
Low-Power Architectural Trade-Offs in a VLSI Implementation of an Adaptive Hearing Aid Algorithm
Proceedings of 43rd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, San Francisco, California, USA, pp. 558-561, Jul 2006.
F. Bürgin, F. Carbognani, H. Kaeslin, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
29% Power Saving through Semi-Custom Standard Cell Re-Design in a Front-End for Hearing Aids
Proceedings of 49th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), San Juan, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, vol. 1, pp. 610-614, Aug 2006.
F. Bürgin, F. Carbognani, H. Kaeslin, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
Latch-Based Clocking for Portable Low-Power Audio Applications
2006 8th International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated-Circuit Technology Proceedings of (Part 3 of 3), Shanghai, China, vol. 3, pp. 1640-1642, Oct 2006.
F. Carbognani, F. Bürgin, N. Felber, H. Kaeslin, W. Fichtner
Two-Phase Resonant Clocking for Ultra-Low-Power Haering Aid Applications.
Proc. of Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, Munich, Germany, Mar 2006.
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F. Carbognani, F. Bürgin, N. Felber, H. Kaeslin, W. Fichtner
42% Power Savings through Glitch-Reducing Clocking Strategy in a Hearing Aid Application
Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Kos, Greece, pp. 2941-2944, May 2006.
F. Carbognani, F. Bürgin, N. Felber, H. Kaeslin, W. Fichtner
A Self-Timed 16-bit Multiplier for Low-Power Low-Frequency Applications
Proceedings of IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), San Juan, Puerto Rico, Aug 2006.
F. Carbognani, F. Bürgin, D. Krähenbühl, F. Zürcher, N. Felber, H. Kaeslin, W. Fichtner
Low-Power Constant-Coefficient FIR Filtering in a Hearing Aid Application
Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated-Circuit Technology (ICSICT), Shanghai, China, pp. 1637-1639, Oct 2006.
F.K. Gürkaynak, S. Oetiker, H. Kaeslin, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
GALS at ETH Zurich: Success or Failure?
Proc. of 12th IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, Grenoble, France, Mar 2006.
F.K. Gürkaynak, P. Lüthi, N. Bernold, R. Blattmann, V. Goode, M. Marghitola, H. Kaeslin, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
Hardware Evaluation of eSTREAM Candidates: Achterbahn, Grain, Mickey, Mosquito, Sfinks, Trivium, Vest, ZK-Crypt
Proceedings of SASC 2006 Workshop - Stream Ciphers Revisited, Leuven, Belgium, Feb 2006.
F.K. Gürkaynak, S. Oetiker, H. Kaeslin, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
GALS at ETH Zurich, Success or Failure
Proc. of 12th IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC 2006), Grenoble, France, Mar 2006
S. Häne, A. Burg, D. Perels, P. Lüthi, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
Silicon Implementation of an MMSE-Based Soft Demapper for MIMO-BIC
Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kos, Greece, pp. 2597-2600, May 2006.
S. Häne, A. Burg, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
OFDM Channel Estimation Algorithm and ASIC Implementation
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems for Communications, Bucharest, Romania, pp. 123-128, Jul 2006.
D. Perels, S. Häne, A.P. Burg, P. Luethi, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
A Frame-Start Detector for a 4x4 MIMO-OFDM System
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Singal Processing, Toulouse, France, vol. 4, pp. 425-428, Mai 2006.
C. Studer, A. Burg, W. Fichtner
Proceedings of Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, Oct 2006.
Technology CAD
N. Braga, R. Mickevicius, V. Rao and W. Fichtner
Simulation of Quasi-stationary and Transient Effects in GaN-based Heterostructure Field Effect Transistors
UIGS 2006
S.C. Brugger, A. Schenk, W. Fichtner
Moments of the Inverse Scattering Operator of the Boltzmann Equation: Theory and Applications
SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics SIAP, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 1209-1226, Mar 2006.
M. Luisier, A. Schenk, W. Fichtner and G. Klimeck
Transport Calculations of Semiconductor Nanowires Coupled to Quantum Well Reservoirs
Accepted for publication in Journal of Computational Electronics (2006).
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M. Luisier, A. Schenk and W. Fichtner
Quantum Transport in Two- and Three-dimensional Nanoscale Transistors: Coupled Model Effects in the Nonequilibrium Green’s Function Formalism
Journal of Applied Physics 100, 043713 (2006).
M. Luisier, A. Schenk, W. Fichtner, G. Klimeck
Theory and Experimental Validation of a New Analytical Model for the Position-Dependent Hall Voltage in Devices with Arbitrary Aspect Ratio
Journal of Computational Electronics, Jun 2006.
M. Luisier, A. Schenk, W. Fichtner, G. Klimeck
Atomistic simulation of nanowires in the sp3d5s* tight-binding formalism: From boundary conditions to strain calculations
Physical Review B, vol. 74, no. 20, pp. 205323, Nov 2006.
M. Luisier, A. Schenk, W. Fichtner
Three-Dimensional Full-Band Simulations of Si Nanowire Transistors
Proceedings of International Electron Devices Meeting 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA, Dez 2006.
M. Luisier, A. Schenk and W. Fichtner
Three-dimensional Full-band Simulations of Si nanowire Transistors
Accepted for publication in IEDM 2006 Conference Digest, San Francisco, CA
D. Christoph Müller and Wolfgang Fichtner
Codoping as a measure against donor deactivation in Si: Ab initio calculations.
Physical Review B73, 035210 (2006). Download PDF (0.7 MB)
D.C. Müller, W. Fichtner
Codoping Strategies in Heavily n-Doped Silicon
Proceedings of Poster Presentation at MRS (Materials Research Society) Spring Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, Apr 2006.
S. Röllin, W. Fichtner
Accuracy and performance issues of spectral preconditioners in semiconductor device simulation
Proceedings of European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, Sep 2006.
M. Rudan, S. Reggiani, E. Gnani, G. Baccarani, C. Corvasce, D. Barlini, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner, M. Denison, N. Jensen, G. Groos, M. Stecher
Theory and Experimental Validation of a New Analytical Model for the Position-Dependent Hall Voltage in Devices with Arbitrary Aspect Ratio
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 314-322, Feb 2006.
Y. Saad, M. Ciappa, P. Pfäffli, L. Bomholt, W. Fichtner
Modeling of Cross-Talk Effects in Floating-Gate Devices Using TCAD Simulations
Proceedings of 2006 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD), Monterey, CA, USA, Sep 2006.
L. Sponton, L. Bomholt, D. Pramanik, W. Fichtner
A Full 3D TCAD Simulation Study of Line-Width Roughness Effects in 65 nm Technology
Proceedings of SISPAD, Monterey, California, USA, pp. 377-380, Sep 2006.
TCAD Analysis for VLSI-Application-Oriented Process Optimization
Proc. of ICSICT, Shanghai, China, vol. 2, pp. 1306-1308, Oct 2006.
Y. Saad, M. Ciappa, P. Pfäffli, L. Bomholt and W. Fichtner
Modelling of Crosstalk Effects in Floating-Gate Devices using TCAD Simulations
Proc. SISPAD 2006 Monterey, CA.
Physical Characterization
D. Barlini, M. Ciappa, A. Castellazzi, M. Mermet-Guyennet, W. Fichtner
New Technique for the Measurement of the Static and of the Transient Junction Temperature in IGBT Devices under Operating Conditions
Proceedings of 17th European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics, and Analysis (ESREF), Wuppertal, Germany, vol. 17, pp. 1772-1777, Oct 2006.
D. Barlini, M. Ciappa, A. Castellazzi, M. Mermet-Guyennet, W. Fichtner
New Technique for the Measurement of the Static and of the Transient Junction Temperature in IGBT Devices under Operating Conditions
Microelectronics Reliability, vol. 46, pp. 1172-1777, Oct 2006.
M. Buzzo, M. Ciappa, M. Stangoni, W. Fichtner
Dopant Imaging and Profiling of Wide-Band-Gap Devices by Secondary Electron Potential Contrast (Invited Paper),
Proceedings of IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium, San Jose, CA, USA, vol. 44, pp. 560-565, Mar 2006.
M. Buzzo, M. Ciappa, J. Millan, P. Godignon, W. Fichtner
Two-dimensional Dopant Imaging of Silicon Carbide Devices by Secondary Electron Potential Contrast
Proceedings of E-MRS 2006 Spring Meeting, Nice, France, May 2006.
M. Buzzo, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner
Imaging and Dopant Profiling of Silicon Carbide Devices by Secondary Electron Dopant Contrast
IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 203-212, Jun 2006.
M. Buzzo, M. Ciappa, M. Rueb, W. Fichtner
Characterization of Unconventional Engineering Solutions for Superjunction Devices
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD), Napoli, Italy, Jun 2006.
M. Buzzo, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner
Characterization of Photonic Devices by Secondary Electron Potential Contrast
Proceedings of 17th European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics, and Analysis (ESREF), Wuppertal, Germany, vol. 17, pp. 1536-1541, Oct 2006.
M. Buzzo, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner
Characterization of Photonic Devices by Secondary Electron Potential Contrast
Microelectronics Reliability, vol. 46, pp. 1536-1541, Oct 2006.
M. Buzzo, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner
Secondary Electron Potential Contrast for Dopant Profiling of Silicon Carbide Devices
Proceedings of 32nd International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis (ISTFA), Austin, TX, USA, vol. 32, Nov 2006.
A. Castellazzi, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner, G. Lourdel, M. Mermet-Guyennet
Compact modelling and analysis of power-sharing unbalances in IGBT-modules used in traction applications
Proceedings of European Symposium Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics and Analysis, Wuppertal, Germany, vol. 2006, no. 46, pp. 1754-1759, Oct 2006.
A. Castellazzi, M. Ciappa, M. Mermet-Guyennet, G. Lourdel, W. Fichtner
Compact Modelling and Analysis of Power-Sharing Unbalances in IGBT-Modules Used in Traction Applications
Microelectronics Reliability, vol. 46, pp. 1754-1759, Oct 2006.
Bio-Electromagnetics and EMC
M.S. Wegmüller, A. Kuhn, J. Fröhlich, M. Oberle, N. Felber, N. Kuster, W. Fichtner
The Human Body as a Communication Channel at Low Frequency.
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Jan 2006.
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M.S. Wegmueller, M. Oberle, N. Felber, N. Kuster, W. Fichtner
Galvanical Coupling for Data Transmission through the Human Body.
Proc. of the 23rd IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference IMTC 2006, Sorrento, Italy, pp. 1686-1689, Apr 2006.
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M.S. Wegmueller, D. Perels, T. Blaser, S. Senn, P. Stadelmann, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
Silicon Implementation of the SPIHT Algorithm for Compression of ECG Records.
Submitted to: 49th IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Puerto Rico, Aug. 6 to 9, 2006.
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W. Fichtner, N. Kuster, N. Felber, M. Oberle, M. Wegmüller
Digital data communication through the human body
Proceedings of World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006 (WC2006), Seoul, Südkorea, Aug 2006.
From dielectrical properties of human tissue to intra-body communications
Proceedings of World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006 (WC2006), Seoul, Südkorea, Aug 2006.
Publications in 2005
IC and System Design and Test
S. Haene, A. Burg, D. Perels, P. Luethi, N. Felber and W. Fichtner
FPGA Implementation of Viterbi Decoders for MIMO-BICM.
Proc. 39th Asilomar Conf. Signals, Systems, Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, 30.10.2005-2.11.2005.
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D. Perels, S. Haene, P. Luethi, A. Burg, N. Felber, W. Fichtner and H. Bölcskei
ASIC Implementation of a MIMO-OFDM Transceiver for 192 Mbps WLANs.
Proc. European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Sep 2005.
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F.K. Gürkaynak, S. Oetiker, H. Kaeslin, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
Improving DPA Security by Using Globally-Asynchronous Locally-Synchronous Systems.
Proc. of ESSCIRC 2005, 31st European Solid-State Circuits Conference, Grenoble, France, pp. 407-410, Sep 2005.
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F. Carbognani, F. Bürgin, N. Felber, H. Kaeslin, W. Fichtner
Two-Phase Clocking and a New Latch Design for Low-Power Portable Applications.
Proc. of International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimazion and Simulation, Leuven, Belgium, vol. 3728, pp. 446-455, Sep 2005.
F.K. Gürkaynak, N. Felber, H. Kaeslin, W. Fichtner
Area, Throughput and Security Considerations for AES Crypto-ASICs.
Proc. of IEEE PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics, PRIME2005, Lausanne, Switzerland, Jul 2005.
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F.K. Gürkaynak, S. Oetiker, H. Kaeslin, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
Design Challenges for a Differential Power Analysis Aware GALS based AES Crypto-ASIC.
Proc. of Second International Workshop on Formal Methods for Globally-Asynchronous Locally-Synchronous Design, FMGALS2005, Verona, Italy, Jul 2005.
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F. Carbognani, F. Bürgin, N. Felber, H. Kaeslin, W. Fichtner
Two-Phase Clocking and a New Latch Design for Low-Power Portable Applications.
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation, Leuven,
Belgium, Sep 2005 .
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F. Carbognani, F. Bürgin, N. Felber, H. Kaeslin, W. Fichtner
A 2.7-uW/MHz Transmission-Gate-Based 16-bit Multiplier for Digital Hearing Aids.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, Aug 2005.
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F. Carbognani, F. Bürgin, L. Henzen, H. Koch, H. Magdassian, C. Pedretti, H. Kaeslin, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
A 0.67-mm2 45-uW DSP VLSI Implementation of an Adaptive Directional Microphone for Hearing Aids.
Proceedings of the European on Circuit Theory and Design, Cork, Ireland, Aug-Sep 2005.
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A. Burg, S. Haene, D. Perels, P. Luethi, N. Felber, W. Fichtner
Receiver design for multi-antenna wireless communications.
Proceedings of the IEEE Conf. on Research in Microelectronics (PRIME 2005), Vol 2, pp. 35-38, July 25-28, 2005. Download PDF (1.2 MB)
A. Burg, M. Borgmann, M. Wenk, M. Zellweger, W. Fichtner, H. Bölcskei
VLSI Implementation of MIMO Detection Using the Sphere Decoding Algorithm.
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol 40, No. 7, pp. 1566-1577, July 2005 (invited paper). Download PDF (0.4 MB)
Technology CAD
S. Röllin, W. Fichtner
About spectral preconditioners and their application in semiconductor device simulation.
Submitted to SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing.
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D.C. Müller, W. Fichtner
Pushing the limit for heavily n-doped silicon: Donor deactivation and codoping on the atomistic level
Proc. of Nano Europe 2005, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Sep 2005.
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D.C. Müller, W. Fichtner
Codoping as a measure against donor deactivation in Si. Submitted to Physical Review B.
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S. Röllin, W. Fichtner
Spectral two-level preconditioners in semiconductor device simulation.
Proc. of International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for Large Sparse Matrix Problems in Scientific and Industrial Applications,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 19-21, 2005.
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D.C. Müller, W. Fichtner
Donor deactivating mechanisms and codoping strategies in heavily doped silicon.
Proc. of MRS Spring Meeting 2005, San Francisco, California, USA, Mar 2005.
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W. Fichtner, N. Braga, M. Ciappa, V. Mickevicius, M. Schenkel:
Progress in Technology CAD for Power Devices, Circuits and Systems.
Proc. of 17th IEEE International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD), Santa Barbara, CA, USA, vol. 17, pp. 1-9, Jun 2005 (Invited Paper). Download PDF (3.6 MB)
B. Polsky, O. Penzin, K. E. Sayed, A. Schenk, A. Wettstein, and W. Fichtner
On Negative Differential Resistance in Hydrodynamic Simulation of Partially Depleted SOI Transistors.
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 52(4), 500-506 (2005). Download PDF (0.4 MB)
W. Fichtner
Computational Electronics – Moving from Academia to Industry.
2006 European Sinano Device Modeling Summer School , Glasgow, UK, August 2005
(Keynote Address).
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B. Sahli and W. Fichtner
Ab initio molecular dynamics simulation of self-interstitial diffusion in silicon.
Physical Review B72, 245210 (2005).
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N. Braga, R. Mickevicius, W. Fichtner, R. Gaska, M. S. Shur, G. Simin, and M. Asif Khan
Simulation of AlGaN/GaN Heterostructure Field Effect Transistors.
2005 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials, September 13-15 (2005),
Kobe, Japan.
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N. Braga, R. Mickevicius, V. S. Rao, W. Fichtner, R. Gaska, and M. S. Shur
Non-uniform Stress Effects in GaN-based Heterojunction Field Effect Transistors.
27th IEEE Compound Semiconductor IC Symposium, October 30 - November 2 (2005),
Palm Springs, CA .
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M. Streiff, W. Fichtner, A. Witzig
Vertical-Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers: Single Mode Control and Self Heating Effects.
In: Optoelectronic Devices: Advanced Simulation and Analysis. Springer, ISBN 0-387-22659-1, New York, NY, USA, pp. 452, 2005.
Physical Characterization
U. Glaser, K. Esmark, M. Streibl, C. Russ, K. Domanski, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner
SCR Operation Mode of Diode Strings for ESD Protection.
EOS/ESD Symposium Proceedings, Anaheim, CA, USA, pp. 60-69, Sep 2005. Download PDF (4.3 MB)
S. Reggiani, E. Gnani, M. Rudan, G. Baccarani, C. Corvasce, D. Barlini, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner, M. Denison, N. Jensen, G. Groos, M. Stecher
Measurement and Modeling of the Electron Impact-Ionization Coefficient in Silicon Up to Very High Temperatures.
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 52, no. 10, pp. 2290-2299, Oct 2005.
M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner, T. Kojima, Y. Yamada, Y. Nishibe
Extraction of Accurate Thermal Compact Models for Fast Electro-Thermal Simulation of IGBT Modules in Hybrid Electric Vehicles.
Microelectronics Reliability, vol. 45, pp. 1694-1699, Oct 2005.
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M. Stangoni, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner
Assessment of the Analytical Capabilities of Scanning Capacitance and Scanning Spreading Resistance Microscopy Applied to Semiconductor Devices.
Microelectronics Reliability, vol. 45, pp. 1532-1537, Oct 2005. Download PDF (2.6 MB)
M. Buzzo, M. Ciappa, M. Stangoni, W. Fichtner:
Two-dimensional Dopant Profiling and Imaging of 4H Silicon Carbide Devices by Secondary Electron Potential Contrast.
Microelectronics Reliability, vol. 45, pp. 1499-1504, Oct 2005. Download PDF (1.5 MB)
S. Reggiani, E. Gnani, M. Rudan, G. Baccarani, C. Corvasce, D. Barlini, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner, M. Denison, N. Jensen, G. Groos, M. Stecher:
Measurement and Modeling of the Electron Impact-Ionization Coefficient in Silicon Up to Very High Temperatures.
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 52, no. 10, pp. 2290-2299, Oct 2005. Download PDF (1.6 MB)
M. Buzzo, M. Ciappa, M. Treu, W. Fichtner:
Advances in Two-dimensional Dopant Profiling and Imaging of 4H-SiC Devices.
Proc. of Intl Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials 2005 (ICSCRM), Pittsburg, USA, Sep 2005. Download PDF (1.7 MB)
M. Buzzo, M. Ciappa, M. Rüb, W. Fichtner:
Characterization of 2D Dopant Profiles for the Design of Proton Implanted High-Voltage Superjunctions.
Proc. of IEEE 12th International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits (IPFA), Singapore, Singapore, vol. 12, pp. 285-289, Jun 2005. Download PDF (1.6 MB)
M. Buzzo, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner:
2D Junction Delineation for the Failure Analysis of Silicon Carbide Devices.
Proc. of IEEE 12th International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits (IPFA), Singapore, Singapore, vol. 12, pp. 105-109, Jun 2005.
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M. Rudan, S. Reggiani, E. Gnani, G. Baccarani, C. Corvasce, D. Barlini, M. Ciappa, W. Fichtner, M. Denison, N. Jensen, M. Stecher, G. Groos
Experimental Validation of a New Analytical Model for the Position-Dependent Hall Voltage in Semiconductor Devices.
Proc. of IEEE European Solid-State Device Research Conference 2005 (ESSDERC), Grenoble, France, pp. 565-568, Sep 2005. Download PDF (0.7 MB)
M. Etherton, J. Willemen, W. Wilkening, N. Qu, S. Mettler, W. Fichtner
Verification of CDM Circuit Simulation Using an ESD Evaluation Circuit.
Proc. of 27th EOS/ESD Symposium, Anaheim, TX, USA, Sep 2005.
M. Etherton, W. Wilkening, S. Mettler, P. Rose, W. Fichtner
Gate Dielectric Degradation in the CDM Time Domain.
Proc. of 9. ESD-Forum, Berlin, Germany, Nov 2005.
M. Etherton, N. Qu, J. Willemen, W. Wilkening, S. Mettler, M. Dissegna, R. Stella, L. Zullino, A. Andreini, H. Gieser, H. Wolf, W. Fichtner
Study of CDM Specific Effects for a Smart Power Input Protection Structure.
Journal of Microelectronics Reliability, Dez 2005.
Bio-Electromagnetics and EMC
M. Wegmueller, A. Lehner, J. Froehlich, M. Oberle, N. Felber, N. Kuster, O. Hess, W. Fichtner: Characterization of the Human Body as a Communication Channel at Low Frequency.
Proc. of 14th International Conference of Medical Physics ICMP 2005, Nuremberg, Germany, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 304-305, Sep 2005. Download PDF (0.2 MB)
M. Wegmueller, A. Lehner, J. Froehlich, R. Reutemann, M. Oberle, N. Felber, N. Kuster, O. Hess, W. Fichtner: Measurement System for the Characterization of the Human Body as a Communication Channel at Low Frequency.
Proc. of the 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society EMBC, Shanghai, China, Sep 2005. Download PDF (1.3 MB)
List of Publications (PDF) (until end of February 2011).