06/27/2018  Entegris, Inc., a developer of specialty chemicals and advanced materials solutions for the microelectronics industry, announced today that it acquired Flex Concepts, Inc., a technology company focused on bioprocessing single-use bags, and fluid transfer solutions for the life sciences industry. 

06/27/2018  TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry, today announced a ramp for its radio frequency silicon-on-insulator (RF SOI) 65nm process in its 300mm Uozu, Japan fab.

06/22/2018  he superatoms -- combinations of atoms that can mimic the properties of more than one group of elements of the period table -- could be used to improve semiconductors found in computerized devices.

06/21/2018  Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a graphene assembled film that has over 60 percent higher thermal conductivity than graphite film -- despite the fact that graphite simply consists of many layers of graphene. The graphene film shows great potential as a novel heat spreading material for form-factor driven electronics and other high power-driven systems.

06/20/2018  Scientists of the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in cooperation with colleagues from the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Australian and Lithuanian Universities have improved the technique of ultrasensitive nonperturbing spectroscopic identification of molecular fingerprints.

06/20/2018  The way that electrons paired as composite particles or arranged in lines interact with each other within a semiconductor provides new design opportunities for electronics, according to recent findings in Nature Communications.

06/19/2018  New material has optical properties that could enable better infrared detection for autonomous vehicles and assist firefighters.

06/13/2018  WIN Semiconductors Corp, the world's largest pure-play compound semiconductor foundry, has expanded its portfolio of highly integrated GaAs technologies with the release of a new pHEMT technology.

06/07/2018  Entegris, Inc., a distributor of specialty chemicals and advanced materials solutions, announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the SAES Pure Gas business.

06/06/2018  Researchers at Oregon State University are looking at a highly durable organic pigment, used by humans in artwork for hundreds of years, as a promising possibility as a semiconductor material.

06/05/2018  Applied Materials, Inc. today announced a breakthrough in materials engineering that accelerates chip performance in the big data and AI era.

06/05/2018  The new method adds to the understanding of the fundamental laws governing the interaction of electrons and light.

06/04/2018  Reducing the wavelength of light could allow it to be absorbed or emitted by a semiconductor, study suggests.

06/04/2018  At this week’s 2018 IEEE International Interconnect Technology Conference (IITC 2018), imec will present 11 papers on advanced interconnects, ranging from extending Cu and Co damascene metallization, all the way to evaluating new alternatives such as Ru and graphene.

05/30/2018  Measurements at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry reveal exotic spin properties that could drive new form of data storage.

05/30/2018  Scientists recently developed a blueprint to fabricate new nanoheterostructures using 2-D materials.

05/25/2018  Scientists from the universities of Bristol and Cambridge have found a way to create polymeric semiconductor nanostructures that absorb light and transport its energy further than previously observed.

05/25/2018  Purdue researchers have discovered a new two-dimensional material, derived from the rare element tellurium, to make transistors that carry a current better throughout a computer chip.

05/24/2018  Researchers using powerful supercomputers have found a way to generate microwaves with inexpensive silicon, a breakthrough that could dramatically cut costs and improve devices such as sensors in self-driving vehicles.

05/24/2018  A new class of adsorbent materials offer high capacity storage and safe delivery of dopant gases.