Ibrahim (Abe) M. Elfadel has 15 years of industrial experience in the research, development and deployment of advanced computer-aided design (CAD) tools and methodologies for deep-submicron, high-performance digital designs. Most recently, he played a key role in the development and deployment of IBM’s next-generation layout verification tools for the ultra-deep submicron CMOS technology nodes. Dr. Elfadel is the recipient of six Invention Achievement Awards, an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and a Research Division Award, all from IBM, for his contributions in the area of VLSI CAD.  He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design for Integrated Circuits and Systems. Gerhard Fettweis earned his Ph.D. under H. Meyr's supervision from RWTH Aachen in 1990. After one year at IBM Research in San Jose, CA he moved to TCSI Inc., Berkeley, CA. Since 1994 he is Vodafone Chair Professor at TU Dresden, Germany, with currently 20 companies from Asia/Europe/US sponsoring his research on wireless transmission and chip design. He coordinates 2 DFG centers at TU Dresden, cfAED and HAEC. Gerhard is IEEE Fellow, member of acatech, has an honorary doctorate from TU Tampere, and has received multiple awards. In Dresden he has spun-out ten start-ups, and setup funded projects of more than EUR 1/3 billion volume. He has helped organized IEEE conferences, most notably as TPC Chair of IEEE ICC 2009, IEEE TTM 2012, and General Chair of VTC Spring 2013. He remains active within IEEE.

“The book is valuable as a learning tool for 3D stacked chips through TSVs … . a valuable addition to a scientific library, as well as served as good introduction for device reliability engineers or specialists and industrials involved in the field of 3D stacking in wafer fabrication and integrated circuit design. … highly recommended for people who desire a better understanding of the theory and practice of 3D TSVs and technical considerations in 3D chips floorplanning, modeling and characterization.” (Chong Leong Gan and Uda Hashim, Microelectronics Reliability, Vol. 63, August, 2016)

• Introduction to Electrical 3D Integration.- Copper-based TSV – Interposer.- Multi-TSV Crosstalk Channel Equalization with Non-Uniform Quantization.- Energy Efficient Electrical Intra-Chip Stack Communication.- Clock Generators for Heterogeneous MPSoCs within 3D Chip Stacks.- Energy Efficient Communications Employing 1-Bit Quantization at the Receiver.- 2-nm Laser Synthesized Si-Nanoparticles for Low Power Memory Applications.- Accurate Temperature Measurement for 3D Thermal Management.- EDA Environments for 3D Chip Stacks.- Integrating 3D Floorplanning and Optimization of Thermal Through-Silicon Vias.- Introduction to Optical Inter- and Intraconnects.- Optical Through-Silicon Vias.- Integrated Optical Devices for 3D Photonic Transceivers.- Cantilever Design for Tunable WDM Filters based on Silicon Microring Resonators.- Athermal photonic circuits for optical on-chip interconnects.- Integrated Circuits for 3D Photonic Transceivers.- Review of interdigitated back contacted full heterojunction solar cell (IBC-SHJ): a simulation approach.-