07/24/2017  CrayoNano will use the system to grow semiconductor nanowires on graphene for water disinfection, air purification, food processing and life science applications.

07/19/2017  An international team of physicists, materials scientists and string theoreticians have observed a phenomenon on Earth that was previously thought to only occur hundreds of light years away or at the time when the universe was born. This result could lead to a more evidence-based model for the understanding the universe and for improving the energy-conversion process in electronic devices.

07/19/2017  An international team of researchers has found a way to determine whether a crystal is a topological insulator -- and to predict crystal structures and chemical compositions in which new ones can arise.

07/19/2017  Taiwan is the world's largest consumer of semiconductor materials for the seventh consecutive year, bringing new opportunities in this increasingly critical sector.

07/18/2017  Rice University researchers turn common insulator into a magnetic semiconductor.

07/17/2017  Precursors for metals and dielectrics in strong demand for finFETs and 3D-NAND.

07/13/2017  Semiconductor manufacturers use a variety of high global warming potential (GWP) gases to process wafers and to rapidly clean chemical vapor deposition (CVD) tool chambers.

07/12/2017  In order to increase device performance, the semiconductor industry has slowly been implementing many new materials.

07/11/2017  In a breakthrough for the semiconductor industry, researchers demonstrate a new layer transfer technique called "controlled spalling" that creates many thin layers from a single gallium nitride wafer.

07/11/2017  The Linde Group is expanding production of the rare gases used by the semiconductor industry, including xenon, which is in increasing demand for etching 3D semiconductor structures.

07/10/2017  A new low-temperature solution printing technique allows fabrication of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells with large crystals intended to minimize current-robbing grain boundaries.

07/10/2017  Brewer Science Inc. today announced from SEMICON West the extension of its partnership with Arkema to develop second-generation directed self-assembly (DSA) materials using high-x (chi) block copolymers.

06/29/2017  Berkeley Lab researchers find tunable halide perovskites could usher in new generation of optoelectronic devices.

06/29/2017  Market demand is driving development of 5G network standards, and commercial applications are expected to be introduced by 2020.

06/29/2017  Umicore’s business unit Precious Metals Chemistry today inaugurated its production unit for advanced metal organic precursor technologies used in the semiconductor and LED markets.

06/19/2017  New research into the largely unstudied area of heterostructural alloys could lead to greater materials control and in turn better semiconductors, advances in nanotechnology for pharmaceuticals and improved metallic glasses for industrial applications.

06/14/2017  Today SEMI announced that the two-day Strategic Materials Conference (SMC) is slated for September 19-20 at San Jose's Doubletree by Hilton Hotel.

06/13/2017  A multi-institutional team led by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) discovered a way to create new alloys that could form the basis of next-generation semiconductors.

06/09/2017  A research team led by Iowa State University's Zhe Fei has made the first images of half-light, half-matter quasiparticles called exciton-polaritons. The discovery could be an early step to developing nanophotonic circuits that are up to 1 million times faster than current electrical circuits.

06/08/2017  AI is driving the development of 3D TSV and heterogeneous integration technologies.