SEMATECH (the international research consortium of semiconductor device, equipment, and materials manufacturers) claims that researchers have made significant advances in post-epitaxial-growth backside clean processing that will prepare ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, semiconductor device, semiconductor
Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are the most efficient and environmentally friendly light bulbs on the market. But they come at a higher up-front price than other bulbs, especially the ones with warmer and more appealing hues. Researchers ...
Tags: LEDs, Silicon-Based Nanoparticles
Sapphire is currently used in some exotic, luxury phones. However, the sapphire price reduction combined with the massive adoption of touch screens in smartphones have stimulated the interest of cell phone OEMS for this material. Crystal ...
Tags: Electronics, Electrical
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) in Freiburg, Germany (the largest solar energy research institute in Europe) has joined forces with EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography ...
Tags: Solar Cells, Electrical
EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment, has introduced the latest version of its EVG120 automated resist processing system. Incorporating new features and improved productivity in an ...
Uncertainty hangs over the market for power devices made with the wide-bandgap semiconductor silicon carbide (SiC), due to a lack of clarity over whether and when electric vehicles will adopt them, according to the latest study on the SiC ...
Tags: Electric Vehicle, Electronics, Power Devices
At the SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing 2013 infrared materials conference in Baltimore, MD, USA (30 April to 2 May), Galaxy Compound Semiconductors Inc of Spokane,WA, USA, a subsidiary of epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of ...
Tags: IQE, InSb substrates, GaSb substrates, Electrical, Electronics
For 2012, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has reported record full-year revenue of £88m, consisting of £69m (79%) from Wireless, £18m (20%) from Photonics, and £0.95m (1%) from ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (Fraunhofer-IAF) of Freiburg, Germany, which develops electrical and optical ...
Tags: Epitaxial deposition, Veeco Instruments, Fraunhofer-IAF
Specialty metal and chemical product producer 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Quebec, Canada has decided to close its indium antimonide (InSb) manufacturing operations in Trail, British Columbia over the next few months, laying off the 75 staff ...
Tags: 5N Plus, metal and chemical product, InSb manufacturing operations
EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria, a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical system), nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, says that it is developing equipment and process ...
Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has sold two Compact 21 MBE systems to Vienna University of Technology for its material research ...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has grown high-performance indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) metal–oxide–semiconductor high-electron-mobility transistors (MOSHEMTs) directly on silicon [Xiuju Zhou et al, ...
Temescal of Livermore, CA, USA (a division of Ferrotec Corp) says it has made a major process breakthrough in electron-beam metallization for lift-off compound semiconductor applications. The Auratus deposition process enhancement ...
Tags: Temescal Electron-beam metalization, lift-off compound, semiconductor
EV Group (EVG) a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, announced the completion of its newly expanded cleanroom IV facility at its corporate headquarters in ...
Tags: EV Group, light emitting diodes, LEDs