11/15/2016  Today, SEMI announced that Innovation Village at SEMICON Japan 2016 has been expanded with participation by 31 start-up companies.

11/15/2016  Nanotech enables powerful and portable sterilization equipment.

11/11/2016  The North American LED market is expected to reach $11,702.6 Million by 2022.

11/04/2016  UCSB researchers warn that trace amounts of transition metal impurities act as recombination centers in gallium nitride semiconductors.

10/31/2016  A Lehigh University team discovers that the widely used semiconducting material is almost as wear-resistant as diamonds.

10/30/2016  I’m delighted to announce that The ConFab, our premier semiconductor manufacturing conference and networking event, will be held at the iconic Hotel del Coronado in San Diego on May 14-17, 2017. For more than 12 years, The ConFab, an invitation-only executive conference, has been the destination for key industry influencers and decision-makers to connect and collab- orate on critical issues.

10/30/2016  Equipment vendors have a lot on their plates now, with memory customers pushing 3D NAND, foundries advancing to the 7 nm node, and 200mm fabs clamoring to come up with hard-to-find tools.

10/26/2016  Previously, Shaw worked at Lam Research and Applied Materials.

10/19/2016  SEMI Korea has hosted a SEMI member event every year for its members since 2008 to provide networking opportunities and insight on the ever-changing issues in the industry.

10/14/2016  Berkeley Lab and University of Colorado-Boulder team develop new way to reveal crystal features in functional materials.

10/14/2016  Less than a micrometre thin, bendable and giving all the colours that a regular LED display does, it still needs ten times less energy than a Kindle tablet. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed the basis for a new electronic "paper".

10/14/2016  LED remains the dominant sapphire application in 2016. Overall, rates of usage in smartwatches have been disappointing and have decreased below 2015 levels.

10/13/2016  SEMICON Europa 2016, opening in less than two weeks in Grenoble, will explore the issues facing Europe's semiconductor and electronics industries, including processes, materials, equipment and supply chain.

10/13/2016  Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced a new line-up of chip scale package (CSP) LED modules for spotlights and downlights that features color tunability and increased design compatibility.

10/12/2016  Scientists with the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for the first time discovered how to make perovskite solar cells out of quantum dots and used the new material to convert sunlight to electricity with 10.77 percent efficiency.

10/10/2016  Researchers have designed a device that uses light to manipulate its mechanical properties. The device, which was fabricated using a plasmomechanical metamaterial, operates through a unique mechanism that couples its optical and mechanical resonances, enabling it to oscillate indefinitely using energy absorbed from light.

10/05/2016  Due to increasing capacity from China, South Korean LCD panel makers are quickly realizing that LCD displays profitability may eventually erode, due to growing capacity and price competition from China, so they are betting their future on organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays.

10/05/2016  Silvaco, Inc., a provider of electronic design automation software and semiconductor IP, today announced that Dr. Jin Jang of Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea, has joined the Technical Advisory Board (TAB).

09/29/2016  Dialog Semiconductor plc today announced the appointment of Mary Chan to the company's Board of Directors, effective December 1, 2016.

09/21/2016  Since the novel inkjet printing solution debuted in manufacturing in 2014, the company has secured the vast majority of available TFE orders.