Chapter 3   : Fabrication of CMOS Integrated Circuits


Note that in the case of a SC, about half the volume of the unit cell is occupied by the atoms. The packing density of four cubic crystals is listed in the Table 1.

Table1 : The packing density of four cubic crystals

 
Radius
Atoms/unit cell
Packaging density
Simple Cubic
1
Body centered Cubic
2
Face centered Cubic
4
Diamond
8