Brewer Science has announced the extension of its partnership with Arkema to develop second-generation directed self-assembly (DSA) materials using high-x (chi) block copolymers. Brewer Science indicated these new materials target ...
Tags: Brewer Science, Node Patterning
At Semicon China 2017, executives at chip giant Intel, IC packager Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, equipment vendors ASML, Lam Research and Tokyo Electron (TEL), and nano-electronics research institute Imec talked about innovation to ...
Tags: IC, Semiconductor, IC Industry
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first 10-nanometer (nm) class* , 8-gigabit (Gb) DDR4 (double-data-rate-4) DRAM chips and ...
Tags: Samsung, 10nm-class DRAM, DDR4
Financial results posted by leading chip manufacturer Intel and key lithography system supplier ASML suggest that demand in the microelectronics industry – a key sector for laser companies – is to remain strong. Following ...
Tags: ASML, microelectronics industry, laser
Luxembourg-registered synthetic diamond materials firm Element Six (a member of the De Beers Family of Companies) says that its Technologies Group experienced more than 20% growth in 2014, marking its third consecutive year of high growth. ...
Tags: synthetic diamond solutions, emerging markets, Electrical
Global market for industrial laser systems worth $10.7BN in 2013, says Optech’s Arnold Mayer. Respected industrial laser market forecaster Arnold Mayer says that the global market for laser materials processing systems hit a record ...
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
At the SEMICON West 2013 event in San Francisco (9-11 July), Luxembourg-registered synthetic diamond materials firm Element Six (a member of the De Beers Family of Companies) has announced that it has expanded its global manufacturing ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported selected financial metrics and business highlights for first-quarter 2013 (excluding revenue and earnings, due to the firm's ongoing ...
Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported selected financial metrics and business highlights for first-quarter 2013 (excluding revenue and earnings, due to the firm’s ...
Tags: MOCVD, Electronics
The critical processes and technologies necessary to continue Moore’s Law are currently more uncertain than ever before in the history of advanced semiconductor manufacturing. To assess these uncertainties and provide the latest ...
Tags: 3D Transistors, Electronics
Veeco Instruments Inc. is providing select financial metrics and business highlights for the quarter ended March 31, 2013. Due to the accounting review announced on November 15, 2012, the Company is unable to report revenue and earnings ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED, lighting
Dynamic changes to R&D processes, tools, technical challenges, and funding/business models will be highlighted at SEMICON West 2013, along with product displays of the latest semiconductor manufacturing technology, components and ...
EUV may not be ready for the 10nm process node and may have to wait for production readiness until the 7nm node, IBM said at the Common Platform Alliance meeting in New York earlier this week. "We are talking about real physics challenges ...
Tags: EUV, process node, production readiness
Lasers & Photonics Marketplace Seminar hears cautious but positive forecasts. Growth in global sales of lasers and laser systems this year will range from flat to only a modest improvement of a few percentage points, according to ...