{"id":4351,"date":"2016-09-26T09:30:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T13:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=4351"},"modified":"2023-02-28T13:12:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T18:12:41","slug":"fall-2015-writing-recognition-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/fall-2015-writing-recognition-award-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2015 writing recognition award winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations goes to\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">William Bouchard, winner of the\u00a0<\/span>Communication in Engineering Writing Recognition Award! His paper was the best of those submitted in the 2015 fall semester of CCOM-206.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the abstract of the\u00a0winning paper, A Study of the Material Best Suited to Replace Silicon as the Principal Semiconductor In Computer Chips:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Transistors made from silicon are more ubiquitous than ever, but the technology itself is not optimal. Some physical properties of silicon may hinder future technological progress. Two alternative semiconductor materials \u2013 diamond and gallium nitride (GaN) \u2013 are studied and their properties compared in order to find a suitable replacement. Speed is evaluated by using cutoff frequency and electron mobility; resistance to voltage and heat is evaluated by using the breakdown electric field, melting point, and thermal conductivity. It is found that diamond possesses superior characteristics in nearly every category. Of particular import are the cutoff frequency, the breakdown electric field, and the thermal conductivity of each transistor. The cutoff frequency of a silicon transistor is 0.055 GHz. For both the diamond and GaN transistors, it is 2 GHz. The breakdown electric field of silicon is 0.22 V.cm-1; for diamond, it is 4.00 V.cm-1; for GaN, 9.50 V.cm-1. Finally, silicon\u2019s thermal conductivity at 300 K is 1.48 W.cm-1.K-1. Diamond easily bests its competitors with a thermal conductivity of 32.2 W.cm-1.K-1, while GaN\u2019s thermal conductivity is 2.53 W.cm-1.K-1. In light of these results, a diamond semiconductor has the potential to offer much faster and much more reliable transistors to many markets, ranging from professional applications to consumer-grade electronics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/escholarship.mcgill.ca\/concern\/papers\/qj72pb10k?locale=en\">paper<\/a> is available\u00a0in McGill&#8217;s institutional repository, <a href=\"https:\/\/escholarship.mcgill.ca\/?locale=en\">eScholarship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>William Bouchard is the third undergraduate student to win the Writing Recognition Award, an award that comes with a monetary prize of $500 from the Faculty of Engineering. Read more about the award and the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/and-the-winning-ccom-206-paper-is\/\">first<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/another-award-winning-paper\/\">second<\/a> recipients, posted in The Turret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations goes to\u00a0William Bouchard, winner of the\u00a0Communication in Engineering Writing Recognition Award! His paper was the best of those submitted in the 2015 fall semester of CCOM-206. Here is the abstract of the\u00a0winning paper, A Study of the Material Best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/fall-2015-writing-recognition-award-winner\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[225,235,208,70,63,256,5],"class_list":["post-4351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-awards","tag-ccom-206-award","tag-ccom-206","tag-engineering","tag-mcgill-university","tag-wcom-206-award","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4351"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4744,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions\/4744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}