Carbon nanotubes can be five times as energy efficient and five times faster than silicon. engineers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison can align the nanotubes for computer chips by turning them ...

Senior Researcher Hyeong-U Kim (Co-corresponding Author) from the Semiconductor Manufacturing Research Center at the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, Professor Taesung Kim (Co-corresponding ...

Sipex Corp. today announced the closure of its 4-inch wafer fab in San Jose as it exits the market for analog display products. The company will also reduce the production output of its 6-inch ...

A research team co-led by Professor Yang Lu from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), and Professor Chengming Li from the Institute for ...

Silicon wafer is a very thin round disk cut from high-purity silicon. A round silicon ingot is sliced to thicknesses of approximately 1mm. The surfaces of the resulting disk are polished carefully, ...

“As a result, we have observed over 100% internal quantum efficiency (IQE) in our c-Si TMW solar cell in the UV region.” The research team built the cell on a 4-inch wafer scale by applying a ...

Frontside processed 4-inch GaN-on SiC wafer of Fraunhofer IAF´s GaN07 technology. The wafers are completely fabricated and tested in Fraunhofer IAF´s III-V process line including design and ...

Semiconductor memory chips are manufactured in cleanroom environments because the circuitry is so small even tiny bits of dust can damage it. Class 1 and class 10 cleanrooms are typical. In a class 1 ...

TOWCESTER, England — Bookham Technology plc is planning to change the gallium arsenide monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) foundry that it runs here from 3- and 4-inch wafers to 6-inch ...