Acknowledgments

The authors are thankful to several researchers who have contributed in different ways to make this second edition a much more complete manuscript. First, we would like to thank Dr. Dimitrios Velenis who contributed Chapter 8. We would also like to thank Dr. Hu Xu, Boris Vaisband, and Ioannis Papistas. Dr. Xu contributed to Chapter 17, Boris Vaisband contributed Chapter 5, and Ioannis Papistas contributed Chapter 6. Finally, the authors are also grateful to Professor Dimitrios Soudris of the National Technical University of Thrace for his important contributions to Chapter 20.

The authors would also like to thank MIT Lincoln Laboratories for providing foundry support for the 3-D test circuits and, more specifically, to Dr. Chenson Chen and Bruce Wheeler of MIT Lincoln Laboratories for their assistance during the 2nd and 3rd multiproject runs. We would also like to thank Yunliang Zhu, Lin Zhang, and Professor Hui Wu of the University of Rochester for their help in testing the 3-D circuits. Special thanks to Nopi Pavlidou for the creative design of the front cover of this second edition of the book. Finally, this book would not have been possible without the continuous support and encouragement of Charlotte Kent of Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, who enthusiastically supported the development of this second edition and thankfully prodded us throughout the writing process.