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SEMICON Korea 2016: Connect to the future

11/13/2015  The theme for the January 27 through 29 exhibition at Seoul’s COEX is “Connect to the Future – Markets, Technology, and People.”

Cut costs: Improve competitive advantage

11/13/2015  Systematic – and predictive – cost reduction in semiconductor equipment manufacturing

The use of sapphire in mobile device and LED industries

11/13/2015  Sapphire is hard, strong, optically transparent and chemically inert.

Printing & vacuum deposition: Competing for market share in the flexible electronics sector

11/13/2015  Flexible electronic devices are starting to experience significant proliferation, with more and more devices with innovative form factors being brought to market, from small components such as disposable sensors that have been in the market for quite some time now, all the way to new flexible smart phones currently being demonstrated by consumer electronics giants like Samsung and LG.

Security by design

11/13/2015  The advent of Internet-connected devices, the so-called Internet of Things (IoT), offers myriad opportunities and significant risks. It is our collective responsibility, as an industry, to secure the transport and storage of the data. Failing to properly secure the data risks turning the digital threat into a physical threat.

A new slant on semiconductor characterization

11/12/2015  Method analyzes non-uniform conductors with a magnetic field.

Pixelligent launches new PixClear Dispersions for display and printed electronics

11/11/2015  Pixelligent launched a new family of PixClear materials for display and optical components and films.

Gartner: 6.4B connected "Things" in use in 2016

11/11/2015  Gartner, Inc. forecasts that 6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016, up 30 percent from 2015, and will reach 20.8 billion by 2020.

Xaar and Lawter collaborate to deliver nanoink printing

11/10/2015  Xaar plc and Lawter announced a collaboration to optimize the performance of a line of nanosilver conductive inks in the Xaar 1002 industrial inkjet printhead.

China to dominate flat panel display manufacturing by 2018, IHS

11/05/2015  China is quickly adding capacity in all flat-panel display (FPD) manufacturing segments.

Plasma-Therm acquires plasma processing technology from Nanoplas France

11/03/2015  Plasma-Therm announced that it has acquired a High Density Radical Flux plasma technology that enables low-temperature Bosch polymer removal.

Soraa announces LED manufacturing expansion in Syracuse, NY

10/30/2015  Soraa announced that it will open a new semiconductor fabrication plant in Syracuse, New York.

Pixelligent introduces OLED light extraction technology at 2015 OLEDs World Summit

10/29/2015  Pixelligent announced the development of a new OLED light extraction technology that dramatically increases light output in OLED Lighting devices.

Price erosion in sensors, volatility in discretes slows total O-S-D growth

10/29/2015  According to a report from IC Insights, the worldwide market for optoelectronics, sensors and actuators, and discrete semiconductors (O-S-D) has turned into a mixed bag of double-digit growth for several major product categories combined with single-digit declines in sales for nearly a dozen others.

Toshiba announces sale of image sensor business to Sony

10/29/2015  Toshiba Corp. will retreat from the CMOS image sensor business, by selling the production line at its Oita plant to Sony Corp.

LED driver and chipset market to reach US$11.99 billion globally by 2021, Transparency Market Research

10/28/2015  The global LED Driver and Chipset market was valued at US$2.80 billion in 2014 and is expected to reach US$11.99 billion by 2021, growing at a CAGR of 23.2% from 2015 to 2021.

Quantum dots making inroads in displays

10/28/2015  As part of a new market report, IDTechEx Research has looked at quantum dots' impact on the display industry. Is this the technology that will enable LCD to rival OLED?

Imec and Ghent University present thermoplastically deformable electronic circuits

10/27/2015  imec and CMST have developed a novel technology for thermoplastically deformable electronics enabling low-cost 2.5D free-form rigid electronic objects.

New approach for "nanohoops" could energize future devices

10/14/2015  A new paper from the University of Oregon shows that nanohoops can be made using a variety of atoms, not just those from carbon.

Applied Materials advances OLED display manufacturing for flexible mobile products and curved TVs

10/12/2015  Applied Materials, Inc. unveiled two new systems that enable the volume production of high-resolution, thin and lightweight flexible OLED displays for mobile products and TVs.




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Environment, Safety & Health

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The semiconductor industry is an acknowledged global leader in promoting environmental sustainability in the design, manufacture, and use of its products, as well as the health and safety of its operations and impacts on workers in semiconductor facilities (fabs). We will examine trends and concerns related to emissions, chemical use, energy consumption and worker safety and health.

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Wafer Processing

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As the industry moves to 10nm and 7nm nodes, advances in wafer processing – etch, deposition, planarization, implant, cleaning, annealing, epitaxy among others – will be required. Manufacturers are looking for new solutions for sustained strain engineering, FinFETs, FDSOI and multi-gate technologies, 3D NAND, and high mobility transistors.

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