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LG Innotek Selects AIX G5 WW System for Development of Silicon Carbide Epitaxial Wafers

AIXTRON SE, a worldwide leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, announced today that one of Korea’s leading electronics companies, LG Innotek has selected a AIX G5 WW (Warm-Wall) reactor for the development of silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafers aimed mainly at power devices for automotive and renewable energy applications. The system configured for 8x6-inch substrates was delivered in the fourth quarter 2015.

11 Mar 2016

$Researchers Study Silicon Wafer Breakage Using Direct and X-ray Diffraction imaging Techniques$

Researchers Study Silicon Wafer Breakage Using Direct and X-ray Diffraction imaging Techniques

When single crystals, especially silicon wafers, are fractured or broken up they pose a number of serious issues. The tip of the crack spreads at an atomic scale, resulting in chemical bonds breaking, the formation of crack fronts via the micrometer-scale crystal, and a culmination of severe wafer shattering on the macroscopic scale.

7 Mar 2016

Toppan Printing Develops Next-Generation EUV Photomask for Leading-Edge Semiconductors

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (Toppan), the world's premier photomask manufacturer, announced today that it has developed a next-generation EUV photomask for leading-edge semiconductors.

24 Feb 2016

New 2D Semiconducting Material Holds Promise for Much Faster Mobile Electronics

Researchers from the University of Utah have discovered a unique 2D semiconducting material for electronics, which could produce much faster, lower power smartphones and computers.

16 Feb 2016

Newly Developed Organic Semiconductor Crystals Enable Cost-Effective Flexible Electronics Production

Scientists from the Faculty of Physics of the Moscow State University have grown organic semiconductor crystals which can reduce the cost of the process of creating light, flexible and transparent light-emitting electronic devices of the new generation.

4 Feb 2016

Researcher Develops New Method to Prepare Efficient Photoelectrodes for Solar Hydrogen Production

Dr. Guijarro has devloped a facile and scalable method to prepare (Cu(In,Ga)S2) photocathodes and demonstrated their state-of-the-art performance for Solar Hydrogen production. The results have been plublished in Advanced Energy Materials.

1 Feb 2016

MEMS Revolutionized with Picosun’s Batch ALD Cluster Tools

Picosun Oy, the leading supplier of high quality ALD (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating solutions for industrial production, has revolutionized cost-effective MEMS manufacturing with high throughput PICOPLATFORM™ batch ALD cluster technology.

From Picosun Oy 25 Jan 2016

SET, Smart Equipment Technology, Leading Semiconductor Supplier, Joins IRT Nanoelec 3D Integration Program

Will Work with Leti, STMicroelectronics and Mentor Graphics to Develop Advanced 3D Die-to-wafer Stacking Technologies Using Direct Cu-Cu Bonding SET, Smart Equipment Technology, the leading supplier in high accuracy d...

15 Jan 2016

Stanford Team Creates New Area-Selective ALD Process to Develop Energy Efficient Semiconductors

Stanford University researchers sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world’s leading university-research consortium for semiconductor technologies, have developed a new area selective atomic layer deposition (ALD) process that promises to accelerate the manufacturing of higher performing, more energy efficient semiconductors.

13 Jan 2016

New Method of Semiconductor Testing Developed that Efficiently and Accurately Measures the Uniformity of Conductivity

A new method of semiconductor characterization that is more precise, efficient and simpler than existing methods has been developed by a team at Northwestern University.

9 Nov 2015

Editorial Highlights

The Current State of the Global Semiconductor Market

The global semiconductor market has entered an exciting period. Demand for chip technology is both driving the industry as well as hindering it, with current chip shortages predicted to last for some time. Current trends will likely shape the future of the industry, which is set to continue to show

How are Graphene Batteries Made?

The primary distinction between graphene-based batteries and solid-state batteries lies in the composition of either electrode. Although the cathode is commonly changed, carbon allotropes can also be employed in fabricating anodes.

What Role Will The IoT Play In The Electric Vehicle Industry?

In recent years, the IoT is rapidly being introduced into almost all sectors, but it has particular importance in the EV industry.

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LG Innotek Selects AIX G5 WW System for Development of Silicon Carbide Epitaxial Wafers

Researchers Study Silicon Wafer Breakage Using Direct and X-ray Diffraction imaging Techniques

Toppan Printing Develops Next-Generation EUV Photomask for Leading-Edge Semiconductors

New 2D Semiconducting Material Holds Promise for Much Faster Mobile Electronics

Newly Developed Organic Semiconductor Crystals Enable Cost-Effective Flexible Electronics Production

Researcher Develops New Method to Prepare Efficient Photoelectrodes for Solar Hydrogen Production

MEMS Revolutionized with Picosun’s Batch ALD Cluster Tools

SET, Smart Equipment Technology, Leading Semiconductor Supplier, Joins IRT Nanoelec 3D Integration Program

Stanford Team Creates New Area-Selective ALD Process to Develop Energy Efficient Semiconductors

New Method of Semiconductor Testing Developed that Efficiently and Accurately Measures the Uniformity of Conductivity

Can we Decarbonize the Aerospace Industry?

From Lab to Industry: How Additive Manufacturing is Transforming Structural Integrity

How do CT Instruments Help with Battery Analysis?

GranuDrum HT: High-Temperature Powder Flow Analyzer

SteraPak: A Portable Decontamination System

Monitoring Polymerization Reactions with ACOMP

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Advanced Characterization of Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) Using FT-NIR Spectroscopy

The Advantages of Using PTR-TOF Analyzers for CSS Applications

Editorial Highlights

The Current State of the Global Semiconductor Market

How are Graphene Batteries Made?

What Role Will The IoT Play In The Electric Vehicle Industry?

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Can we Decarbonize the Aerospace Industry?

From Lab to Industry: How Additive Manufacturing is Transforming Structural Integrity

How do CT Instruments Help with Battery Analysis?

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3High-Resolution Spectroscopy Identifies Key Factors in Iron-Based Superconductivity

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