Umberto Celano is a senior research scientist at imec (Belgium), where his interests encompass solid-state physics and materials science for application in nanoelectronics and emerging devices. In this area, he conducted research at the border between engineering and fundamental science in various institutions such as KU Leuven, Osaka University, and Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Leuven in 2015. Previously, Umberto obtained a B.Eng. in Electronic Engineering and an M.Sc. degree in Nanoelectronics from the University of Rome Sapienza, Italy.

Comprehensive treatment of emerging devices, their operation and characterization

Authors provide a balance of industry and academic expertise

Includes images of state-of-the-art integrated devices

Combines semiconductor physics and materials analysis

Provides an in depth collection of applied electrical AFM techniques

Introduction (U. Celano, W. Vandervorst).- Conductive AFM for nanoscale analysis of high-k dielectric metal oxides (C. Rodenbücher, M. Wojtyniak, K. Szot).-Mapping Conductance and Carrier Distribution in Confined Three-Dimensional Transistor Structures (A. Schulze, P. Eyben, K. Paredis, L. Wouters, U. Celano, W. Vandervorst).- Scanning Capacitance Microscopy for two-dimensional carrier profiling of semiconductor devices (J. Mody, J. Nxumalo).- Scanning probe lithography for nanopatterning and fabrication of high-resolution devices (Y. K. Ryu, A. W. Knoll).- Characterizing Ferroelectricity with an Atomic Force Microscopy: an all-around technique (S. Martin, B. Gautier, N. Baboux, A. Gruvermann, A. Carretero-Genevrier, M. Gich, A. Gomez).- Electrical AFM for the analysis of Resistive Switching (S. Brivio, J. Frascaroli, M. H. Lee).- Magnetic force microscopy for magnetic recording and devices (A. Hirohata, M. Samiepour, M. Corbetta).- Nanoscale space charge density profiling with KPFM and photoconductive C-AFM/KPFM (C. Villeneuve-Faure, K. Makasheva, L. Boudou, G. Teyssedre).- Electrical AFM of 2D materials and heterostructures for nanoelectronics (F. Giannazzo, G. Greco, F. Roccaforte, C. Mahata, M. Lanza).- Diamond probes technology (T. Hantschel, T. Conard, J. Kilpatrick, G. Cross).- Scanning Microwave Impedance Microscopy (sMIM) in electronic materials and quantum materials (K. Rubin, Y. Yang, O. Amster, D. Scrymgeour, S. Misra).