Vendors

• Synopsys (Technology CAD)
• Silvaco International
• TCAD International
• PDF Solutions
• SEQUOIUA Design Systems
• Siborg Systems, Inc.
• Crosslight
• Cogenda

Universities/Institutions/Organizations

• Stanford University - TCAD research group
• MIT - Microsystems Technology Laboratories
• University of Texas at Austin - Microelectronics Research Center
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - National Center for Computational Electronics (NCCE)
• University of Florida - TEC Labs
• Purdue University - Semiconductor Simulation Hub
• IMEC - Belgium semiconductor research facility
• Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)
• Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation (MARCO)
• SEMI - Semiconductor equipment and materials international

• Bart Van Zeghbroeck - Principles of Semiconductor Devices
• Robert W. Dutton and Zhiping Yu - Technology CAD — Computer Simulation of IC Processes and Devices, Kluwer Academic, 1993
• Yannis Tsividis - Operation and Modeling of the MOS Transistor, McGraw-Hill, 2nd edition, 1999
• Narain Arora - MOSFET Models for VLSI Circuit Simulation: Theory and Practice,  Springer-Verlag, 1993

• SUNY-Buffalo - Educational Applets in Solid State Materials
• The Semiconductor applet service 
• n-channel MOSFET fabrication
• CMOS Inverter Fabrication Process
• MOS capacitor with bias
• Charge-field-potential
• MOSFET operation
• Ids vs. Vgs/Vgd
• Ids vs. Vds
• MOS calculation tool
• Intel - How chips are made?
• Stanford University - TCAD animated simulation of semiconductor electronic devices for classroom demonstration
• MIT - "Well-tempered" bulk-Si NMOSFET device
• University of Michigan - MISTIC visual tour
• UC Berkeley - Device Group virtual tour
• Purdue University - Advanced CMOS device technology
• EMS - MODU-Lab
• Semiconductor Tutorials - Links of on-line tutorials on semiconductors
• Nanyang Technological University - TCAD: Process and Device Simulation

Conferences/Journals

• TCAD-Related Conferences
• TCAD Journal - Journal of Technology Computer-Aided Design
• Solid-State Technology - International magazine for semiconductor manufacturing

Projects

• Michigan Synthesis Tools for IC's (MISTIC) - University of Michigan
• BSIM - UC Berkeley
• Project DOUST - NTU/CSM joint project

Articles

• The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors
• Moore's Law
• EE Times - Semiconductor News

Images

• Chip shots collection - surface features of integrated circuits
• Superlattices collection - tomorrow's semiconductors today

Last update: September 26, 2009.