4 September 2012 Osaka university orders Aixtron BM Pro system Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath,Germany has announced that in Q3/2012 Japan's Osaka University ordered an Aixtron BM Pro system,capable of handling ...
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Cree continues to lead the SiC materials marketplace in driving to larger diameters and this latest advancement lowers device cost and enables adoption for customers with existing 150-mm diameter device processing lines. 150-mm epitaxial ...
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4 September 2012 EV Group launches next-generation EVG150 automated resist processing platform for compound semiconductors,MEMS,and advanced packaging EV Group(EVG)of St Florian,Austria,a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography ...
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Cree Inc of Durham,NC,USA has introduced low basal plane dislocation(LBPD)100-mm 4H silicon carbide(SiC)epitaxial wafers.This LBPD material exhibits a total BPD density of 1 cm-2 in the epitaxial drift layer,with BPDs capable of causing Vf ...
STMicroelectronics'strategy of being a'competitive follower'in process technology means that the advantage in gaining access to processing equipment gained by the Intel,Samsung,TSMC lithographic alliance with ASML will not affect ST. "We ...
Tags: STMicroelectronics, processing equipment, EUV machines, FD-SOI technology
STMicroelectronics is the third largest spender on R&D in the semiconductor industry and has the second highest ratio of R&D spend to sales revenue among the major players,reports IC Insights. ST came third after Intel and Samsung in ...
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Dongguan Tianyu Semiconductor Technology Co Ltd,which claims to be the first manufacturer of silicon carbide(SiC)epitaxial wafers in China,has started to expand its SiC epiwafer business globally after the completion of three contracts in ...
Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has announced the availability of high-quality, low-micropipe 150mm 4H n-type silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafers, with highly uniform epitaxial layers as thick as 100 microns available for immediate purchase ...
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According to a filing on 24 August with the US Securities&Exchange Commission(SEC),HexaTech Inc of Morrisville,NC,USA has raised$500,000 in new debt financing involving six investors.A further$54,496 remains still to be raised from ...
Next week STMicroelectronics will start running the 28nm FD-SOI NovaThor integrated modem and applications processor designed by ST-Ericsson,Jean-Marc Chery,Chief Manufacturing and Technology Officer of ST told EW in Crolles yesterday. ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath,Germany says that Showa Denko of Chichibu,Japan has added a SiC CVD Warm-Wall Planetary Reactor system to its Aixtron equipment base,capable of handling either ten 100mm or six 150mm ...
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Korean semiconductor and electronics giant buys 3%stake in the Dutch lithography company,joining Intel and TSMC Samsung has followed its fellow chipmakers Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ...
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Graphic:Current density versus voltage for CZTS PV cell. In partnership with Tokyo-based Solar Frontier(the world's largest manufacturer of copper indium selenium thin-film photovoltaic solar modules),Tokyo Ohka Kogyo(TOK)and DelSolar(a ...
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As the semiconductor industry moves to 28nm,20nm and below process technologies,demand for equipment used to make more advanced chips is set to boom allowing Scientech to work toward a promising future,according to company president ...
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TSMC's 28nm yield is now over 80%,according to Taiwan's Chinese language newspaper the Commercial Times. The Commercial Times quoted sources from TSMC's equipment suppliers for the information. According to another Taiwan newspaper,the ...
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