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We have been covering the photovoltaics manufacturing industry for quite some time in Solid State Technology and a variety of other PennWell brands, most notably Renewable Energy World, Laser Focus World, Vision Systems Design and Power Engineering.

Many OEMs held off on the usual holiday-season production ramp amid expectations of weak consumer demand due to the global economic crisis, and this has created a ripple effect all along the electronic systems supply chain from ODMs and EMS companies to chip packaging and foundries, and ultimately causing a shortfall in 4Q08 chip orders, notes Gartner in a research report.

Ever since lithographers began exposing with 193nm DUV light, photomasks have accumulated photochemical haze that eventually congeals into crystalline defects.

TDI, an Oxford Instruments company, recently announced that it has developed a hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) technology that is based on a GaCl3-InCl3-NH3 system.

KLA-Tencor recently introduced the PlasmaVolt X2 for measurement of plasma chamber conditions in semiconductor wafer processing systems.

Dry etching is essential for high-performance metal gate/high-k devices at 45nm and beyond.

The introduction of new materials into semiconductor manufacturing process flows is generating unprecedented improvements in integrated circuit (IC) performance.

III-V semiconductors are commonplace in laser and lighting applications and provide enabling components, such as power amplifiers, for mobile products including handsets and WLAN transceivers.