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Brighter shine for LEDs with Picosun ALD

02/13/2017  Picosun Oy, a provider of high quality Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) technology, announced a collaboration with Osram Opto Semiconductors and other partners to create a new generation of advanced LED lighting solutions.

GlobalFoundries 12-inch wafer production line in Chengdu commences operation

02/13/2017  The company will continue investing in its wafer plants in the United States and Germany, expand its capacity in Singapore, and construct a facility to produce 12-inch wafers in Chengdu, China in order to satisfy Chinese and global demands for the company's 22FDX technology.

A new platform to study graphene's electronic properties

02/13/2017  IBS scientists model the electronic structure of graphene.

Applied Materials CTO Dr. Om Nalamasu elected to National Academy of Engineering

02/10/2017  Applied Materials, Inc. announced today that Dr. Om Nalamasu, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest professional honors for engineers.

AMOLED production equipment purchases to reach record high in 2017

02/10/2017  The flat-panel display (FPD) industry is in the midst of a historic wave of building new factories to manufacture active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) displays.

A new sensitive and stable self-powered photodetector

02/10/2017  Researchers in Singapore and China collaborate to create new photodetector based on GdNiO3/Nb-doped SrTiO3 p-n heterojunction.

Grant Pierce named Chairman of the ESD Alliance Board of Directors

02/09/2017  Grant A. Pierce, chief executive officer (CEO) of Sonics, Inc. was elected by the Board of Directors of the Electronic System Design Alliance (ESD Alliance) to serve as its chairman.

Toshiba starts construction of Fab 6 and memory R&D center at Yokkaichi, Japan

02/09/2017  Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has started construction of a new semiconductor fabrication facility, Fab 6, and a new R&D center, the Memory R&D Center, at Yokkaichi Operations in Mie prefecture, Japan, the companyÂ’s main memory production base.

Penn researchers are among the first to grow a versatile 2-dimensional material

02/09/2017  University of Pennsylvania researchers are now among the first to produce a single, three-atom-thick layer of a unique two-dimensional material called tungsten ditelluride.

UNIST to engineer dream diodes with a graphene interlayer

02/08/2017  A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has created a new technique that greatly enhances the performance of Schottky Diodes (metal-semiconductor junction) used in electronic devices.

UNIST engineers oxide semiconductor just single atom thick

02/08/2017  A new study, affiliated with UNIST has introduced a novel method for fabrication of world's thinnest oxide semiconductor that is just one atom thick. This may open up new possibilities for thin, transparent, and flexible electronic devices, such as ultra-small sensors.

imec, Holst, ROHM debut all digital phase-locked loop for IoT radios

02/08/2017  At the 2017 International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco (US), imec, Holst Centre and ROHM today presented an all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) for Internet-of-Things (IoT) radio transceivers.

SEMICON Korea huge 30th year anniversary event opens today

02/08/2017  SEMICON Korea 2017, opening today at COEX in Seoul, celebrates its 30th anniversary with its largest-ever exhibition.

NREL research pinpoints promise of polycrystalline perovskites

02/07/2017  A team of scientists from the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) determined that surface recombination limits the performance of polycrystalline perovskite solar cells.

UniPixel prepares for flexible display market

02/07/2017  UniPixel touch sensors pass 200,000 cycle fold test.

imec debuts plastic NFC tag, compatible to ISO protocols

02/07/2017  Innovative tag is the thinnest and mechanically most robust technology compatible to ISO protocols.

Nexperia emerges as dynamic new force in discretes, logic and MOSFETs

02/07/2017  Former Standard Products Division of NXP combines experience, product and operational excellence with customer focus and ambition.

KLA-Tencor Evolves Inspection and Review Portfolio for 3D Future

07/10/2014  Systems detect and categorize defects that limit yield in advanced IC manufacturing.

How to Drive and Motivate Modern-Day Innovation

07/10/2014  Technology innovation isnÂ’t slowing down. But its steady acceleration isnÂ’t happening spontaneously, and TuesdayÂ’s Silicon Innovation Forum keynote from Professor of Innovation Dr. Bob Metcalfe outline how he believes to effectively drive the complex cycle that is modern-day innovation.

Vacuum Technologies Needed for 3D Device Processing

07/10/2014  Complex effluent management of ALD and CVD processes using novel precursors