Researchers in Taiwan have produced indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors (MOSCAPs) with low interface trap densities directly on silicon [Yueh-Chin Lin etal, Appl. Phys. Express, vol7, p041202, 2014]. InGaAs ...
Altatech Semiconductor S.A. of Montbonnot, near Grenoble, France (a subsidiary of Soitec since January 2012) has received an order from the University of Washington in Seattle for an AltaCVD chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system, whose ...
Tags: CVD System, Process Materials
Lund University has developed multi-gate (MuG) III-V metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) with a cut-off frequency of 210GHz and a maximum oscillation frequency of 250GHz, “the highest of any reported ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue for full-year 2013 of $331.7m, down 36% on 2012's $516m, with all of the firm's businesses experiencing down cycles. LED & ...
Tags: Veeco MOCVD MBE ALD, Epitaxial deposition, process equipment, Electrical
The Mint of Finland has chosen Beneq's patented nSILVER invisible protective coating to prevent tarnishing of its special numbered series of EUR 20 coins to honor Tove Jansson, the Finnish creator of the Moomin books for children. The ...
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has realized junctionless (JL) gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanowire field-effect transistors (NWFETs) "for the first time" by implantation-free source/drain metal-organic chemical vapour deposition ...
Oxford Instruments is offering an upgrade option for its ALD equipment to apply a bias voltage to the substrate, adding further control of the energy at the wafer surface in order to tune the properties of the deposited film. While scaling ...
Following its first series of seminars in India (in Bangalore) in 2012, UK-based equipment maker Oxford Instruments has completed its second series of seminars. Focussed on nanotechnology tools and their use in multiple fields, more than ...
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SiSTEM Technology, a supplier of high quality processing equipment to the semiconductor and high technology industries, has announced that the Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) equipment it supplies from Picosun Oy is being used in the fast, ...
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Review Display Systems Ltd (RDS), specialist provider of optimal technical and commercial display system and embedded computing solutions, announces its appointment as distributor for Lumineq Displays – handling both their transparent ...
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University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) researchers have been studying the effect of using undoped vertical spacers in the source and drain contacts to reduce off-state leakage in indium arsenide (InAs)-channel ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Mosfets
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment maker Picosun Oy of Espoo, Finland has launched the P-200 batch ALD system, specifically optimized for fast and efficient manufacturing of MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems, e.g. sensors and ...
Tags: ALD System, LEDs
Thin-film processing equipment maker AVACO Co Ltd of Daegu, South Korea, which specializes in sputtering (PVD) vacuum deposition equipment (in-line, cluster, and roll to roll), atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment, back-end-of-line ...
Tags: PV CIGSSe, Electrical, Electronics
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed a 600V gallium nitride on silicon (GaN/Si) normally-off metal-insulator-semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistor (MIS-HEMT) with large gate swing and low current ...
Tags: GaN MIS-HEMTs AlGaN, Electrical, Electronics
Taiwan’s National Tsing Hua University has developed a method to improve the performance of zinc oxide (ZnO) transparent conductive oxide (TCO) as an electrode for short-wavelength nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) ...
Tags: zinc oxide, LEDs