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 ...

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 ...

Soaring silicon carbide (SiC) demand from electric vehicles (EV) is leading to a tight supply of 6-inch SiC wafers, of which the cost will unlikely go down. Abstract To raise SiC capacity while ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...