Global process control and yield management product leader KLA-Tencor’s newly launched Taiwan Training Facility continues to reflect the market’s important role in the company’s business strategy. New Taiwan training ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has introduced the Apex Gas Mixing System for point-of-use gas mixing. The system generates precise binary gas mixtures on a single platform for ...
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Researchers based in USA and South Korea have developed a gate stack for III-V quantum well metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (QW MOSFETs) based on a bilayer dielectric of beryllium oxide (BeO) and hafnium dioxide (HfO2) ...
Tags: InGaAs MOSFETs QW MOSFETs InGaAs ALD, Electrical, Electronics
Obducat AB of Lund, Sweden, a developer and supplier of technologies, products and processes based on proprietary nanoimprint lithography (NIL), has launched the second-generation SINDRE system which, due to improved performance, will be ...
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Fabless integrated silicon photonics system-on-a-chip company Skorpios Technologies Inc of Albuquerque, NM, USA says that it has joined an alliance of companies supporting the 100G CLR4 CWDM (coarse wavelength-division multiplexing) ...
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The global semiconductor industry will remain promising in the second and third quarters of 2014, according to Morris Chang, chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). The production value of Taiwan’s ...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is developing techniques to monolithically integrate high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on aluminium indium gallium nitride (AlInGaN) ...
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Semiconductor material distributor Wah Lee Industrial is expected to see its revenues decrease within a range of 5% in the first quarter of 2014 thanks to strong sales of silicon wafers in China and rising demand for semiconductor materials ...
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Researchers in Japan have created indium phosphide (InP) nanowire (NW) solar cell structures with internal quantum efficiencies (IQEs) that beat the performance of bulk InP-based devices in the short-wavelength range of 300-570nm [Masatoshi ...
Tags: INP Nanowire solar cells, InP SA-MOVPE p-type, InP substrates
Researchers in China have developed a selective area epitaxy (SAE) approach to create nanopyramids of nitride semiconductor 'white' light-emitting diodes (LEDs) without using phosphors [Kui Wu et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol103, p241107, ...
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Researchers at Meijo University and Nagoya University, Japan, have produced low-resistance n-type aluminium gallium nitride (n-AlGaN) [Toru Sugiyama et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p121002, 2013]. Using the n-AlGaN as part of an ...
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A Korea/USA team of engineering researchers has developed a gallium nitride (GaN) metal-oxide-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistor (MOSHEMT) with embedded Schottky barrier diode (SBD) [Bong-Ryeol Park et al, Semicond. Sci. ...
Tags: GaN Transistors, Embedding
The second-generation Nissan Qashqai has been unveiled at last – detailing a new crossover that promises a higher-quality cabin, expanded practicality and a more efficient, all-turbocharged engine line-up. Qashqai has been a hugely ...
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Chinese Academy of Sciences' Semiconductor Lighting R&D Center at the Institute of Semiconductors in Beijing has developed an electrically driven color-tunable light-emitting diode (LED) based on indium gallium nitride (InGaN) quantum wells ...
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Anasys Instruments is proud to announce the nanoIR2, a second generation AFM based IR spectroscopy (AFM-IR) platform. A key breakthrough is the ability of the nanoIR2 to operate with top-side illumination, eliminating the prior need to ...
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