09/14/2017  Simulations and analysis at Berkeley Lab provide new atomic-scale clues to material's enhanced hydrogen storage properties.

09/13/2017  Entegris Inc., a specialty materials provider, today announced the expansion of its Taiwan Technology Center for Research and Development (TTC) in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

09/13/2017  For the first time, physicists have successfully imaged spiral magnetic ordering in a multiferroic material.

09/13/2017  Researchers from North Carolina State University are rolling out a new manufacturing process and chip design for silicon carbide (SiC) power devices, which can be used to more efficiently regulate power in technologies that use electronics.

09/07/2017  SiFive, the first fabless provider of customized, open-source-enabled semiconductors, today announced that UltraSoC will provide debug and trace technology for the SiFive Freedom platform, based on the RISC-V open source processor specification as part of the DesignShare initiative.

09/06/2017  Researchers examining the flow of electricity through semiconductors have uncovered another reason these materials seem to lose their ability to carry a charge as they become more densely "doped." Their results, which may help engineers design faster semiconductors in the future, are published online in the journal ACS Nano.

09/06/2017  Slated for September 18-20 in San Jose, Calif., the 18th annual SMC “offers a unique chance to network and discover opportunities in and around the industry in a year where dramatic growth has returned to the semiconductor market,” observes SMC 2017 co-chair Mark Thirsk of Linx Consulting, who will provide opening remarks at the conference.

09/05/2017  The modern world relies on portable electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets, laptops, cameras or camcorders. Many of these devices are powered by lithium-ion batteries, which could be smaller, lighter, safer and more efficient if the liquid electrolytes they contain were replaced by solids. A promising candidate for a solid-state electrolyte is a new class of materials based on lithium compounds, presented by physicists from Switzerland and Poland.

09/05/2017  FlexTech, a SEMI strategic association partner, will host a one-day Flexible Hybrid Electronics and Sensors Automotive Industry workshop in Detroit, Michigan on September 13, 2017 to explore how FHE adds functionality, decreases weight and impacts design. Automotive and electronics industry leaders will gather to discuss the market demands and challenges with automotive technology and present disruptive changes brought by flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) and sensors.

09/01/2017  Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc, a semiconductor assembly and test service provider, announced that its K7 manufacturing facility in Kaohsiung has received the Green Factory Label from the Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan.

09/01/2017  How is the IGBT market evolving for different applications? How will the IGBT market face the adoption of high performance WBG based devices?

08/31/2017  A new device being developed by Washington State University physicist Yi Gu could one day turn the heat generated by a wide array of electronics into a usable fuel source.

08/30/2017  A group of international physicists, jointly with NUST MISIS researchers, have conducted a series of experiments on graphene bombardment by swift heavy ions.

08/30/2017  Silicon - the second most abundant element in the earth's crust - shows great promise in Li-ion batteries, according to new research from the University of Eastern Finland. By replacing graphite anodes with silicon, it is possible to quadruple anode capacity.

08/28/2017  Nagoya University-led team controls the configuration of domains in nanorod- and thin-film ferroelectric systems.

08/28/2017  Berkeley Lab-led team also provides most precise band gap measurement yet for hotly studied monolayer moly sulfide.

08/23/2017  American researchers develop method to determine bond dissociation energies for transition metal silicides to advance computation efforts and general understanding of chemical bonding.

08/22/2017  Samsung remains the “wild card” with regard to 2H17 capital expenditures.

08/10/2017  Researchers from A*STAR have developed a simple technique that could pave the way for its use in a wide range of new applications in energy storage, optoelectronic and flexible electronic devices

08/09/2017  Rice University, Oak Ridge scientists show growing atom-thin sheets on cones allows control of defects.