Worldwide silicon wafer revenues declined by 13% in 2013 compared to 2012, while silicon wafer area shipments increased 0.4%, according to SEMI. Silicon wafer area shipments in 2013 totaled 9.067 billion square inches, up slightly from ...
Tags: Silicon Wafer, semiconductor
PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials posted consolidated revenues of NT$750 million (US$24.8 million) for January, hitting a record for the seventh consecutive month and increasing 28.69% on month and 93.59% on year, according to ...
Tags: Giga Solar, Solar Materials
PV demand has been boosting since 4Q13, and EnergyTrend predicts that global PV system installation may reach 42GW in 2014. Although the U.S. court has started the anti-dumping and countervailing investigation towards Taiwanese PV cell ...
Tags: High-Efficiency Product, PV Demand
Spot market prices for polysilicon have risen to US$20/kg currently and some China-based makers, in view of strong demand in the China market, plan to further hike quotes by 10% to US$22/kg after the Lunar New Year (January 31), according ...
Tags: China polysilicon, Strong demand
Quotes for a solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafer have risen from US$1 in December 2013 to US$1.05 currently, and are expected to rise to US$1.08 in February and further to US$1.10 in March, according to chairman Guo Yan-ting of ...
Tags: Solar-Grade, Silicon Wafers
Last week nanotechnology research institute imec of Leuven, Belgium celebrated its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1984 as a non-profit organization, imec has grown to be a multi-disciplinary expertise center in the fields of semiconductor ...
Tags: FinFETs, III-V CMOS, ASML of Veldhoven, TSMC
Taiwan-based makers have hiked quotes for high energy conversion rate solar-grade wafers to about US$1 per wafer due to tight supplies, according to industry sources. Prices for a high-efficiency solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer ...
Tags: Silicon Wafer, Lighting, Solar-grade
Solid catalysts based on precious metals, such as palladium, are widely used in industry to promote a range of chemical reactions. Finding ways to minimize the consumption of expensive catalytic materials, however, remains a critical ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Hybrid
Crystalline silicon solar cell maker Neo Solar Power generated December consolidated revenues of NT$2.406 billion (US$80.2 million), hitting the highest since March 2011 and increasing 3.12% sequentially and 300.18% on year. Solar-grade ...
Tags: Solar, silicon solar, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Quotes for a solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer have risen to US$0.98-0.99 due to strong demand and those for a high-efficiency wafer have exceeded US$1, according to Chinese-language newspaper Economic Daily News (EDN). Prices are ...
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Engineers at Imec and IBM have independently developed new manufacturing processes for making the next decade's leading chips, they revealed late last year. These efforts will allow the marriage of silicon wafers and certain exotic ...
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Helium reserves on earth are limited, which could spur makers of MRI machines to look to the moon to fine reserves of this valuable noble gas. The dwindling supply of helium, which is also used in silicon wafer manufacturing, arc welding, ...
Researchers at Samsung Electronics and Seoul National University (SNU) in Korea have produced high-quality free-standing gallium nitride (GaN) substrates from hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) on silicon [Moonsang Lee et al, Appl. Phys. ...
Tags: GaN-on-silicon substrates GaN HVPE, Electrical, Electronics
Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell maker Neo Solar Power and solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer makers Green Energy Technology (GET), Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) and Gigastorage saw November consolidated revenues ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Crystalline Silicon
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates - including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers - and silicon wafer manufacturer SunEdison Inc of St. Peters, MO, USA have entered into a patent cross-license ...
Tags: Soitec SOI engineered substrates, Electrical, Electronics