Science news articles about 'semiconductor wafers'Making a good impression: Nanoimprint lithography tests at NIST
... A stamp with a nanoscale pattern in its surface is pressed into a soft film on the surface of a semiconductor wafer. The film is hardened, usually by heating or exposure to ultraviolet light, and the ... Intel, Samsung, TSMC Reach Agreement for 450mm Wafer Manufacturing Transition
... to larger, 450mm-sized wafers starting in 2012. The transition to larger wafers will enable continued growth of the semiconductor industry and helps maintain a reasonable cost structure for future ... Avalanche photodiodes target bioterrorism agents
... chemical vapor deposition, a technique for depositing thin layers of atoms onto a semiconductor wafer. Many layers can be built up, each of a precisely controlled thickness and composition, to create ... Thin Germanium Wafers Shine Bright For Solar Cell Efficiency
... the waste and breakage of the brittle semiconductor.
Germanium solar cells are expensive and so are only now used mainly on spacecraft but with the improved wafer-slicing method, "the idea is to make ... Engineers: Efficient organic LEDs a step toward better lights
... are built with organic semiconductors on large area glass substrates rather than inorganic semiconductor wafers. When used in display screens computer monitors, they have higher efficiency, better ... Cracking a tough nut for the semiconductor industry
... interleaved between layers of conductors and components in microprocessor chips and other high-performance semiconductor devices. As IC features like transistors have gotten ever smaller and crammed ... Melting defects could lead to smaller, more powerful microchips
... he said.
Next, Chou's group plans to demonstrate this technique on large (8-inch) wafers. Several leading semiconductor manufacturers have expressed keen interest in the ... Scientists demonstrate method for integrating nanowire devices directly onto silicon
... function as light-emitting diodes, with the color of light determined by the type of semiconductor nanowire used.
To demonstrate the potential scalability of their technique, the team fabricated ... 'Nanoglassblowing' seen as boon to study of individual molecules
... devices are fabricated by etching tiny channels into a glass wafer with the same lithographic procedures used to manufacture circuit patterns on semiconductor computer chips. The planar (flat-edged) ... Exposing the sensitivity of extreme ultraviolet photoresists
... Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have confirmed that the photoresists used in next-generation semiconductor manufacturing processes now under development are twice as sensitive as ... New process creates 3-D nanostructures with magnetic materials
... materials such as nickel or nickel-iron alloys using techniques compatible with standard semiconductor manufacturing. The process, described in a recent paper,* could enable whole new classes of ... UC San Diego researchers enhance lithography light sources
... EUVL in high volume manufacturing. Nowadays, the light source in semiconductor lithography is applied directly from a laser through a mask to a wafer. In EUVL, a laser is used to produce extreme ... 'Nanonet' circuits closer to making flexible electronics reality
... are etched in place. The lines are easy to create with a standard etching process used in the semiconductor industry.
Future research may include work focusing on learning the reliability of the ... New technology could lead to camera based on human eye
... is that such a process applied to conventional electronics leads to catastrophic mechanical fracture in the brittle semiconductor materials.
Rogers and Huang got around this by creating an array of ... Creating unconventional metals
... make transistors) back on. The new material exists in a quantum halfway house between magnet and semiconductor - in the same way that much more complex materials such as ceramics which exhibit high ...
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Making a good impression: Nanoimprint lithography tests at NIST
... A stamp with a nanoscale pattern in its surface is pressed into a soft film on the surface of a semiconductor wafer. The film is hardened, usually by heating or exposure to ultraviolet light, and the ...Intel, Samsung, TSMC Reach Agreement for 450mm Wafer Manufacturing Transition
... to larger, 450mm-sized wafers starting in 2012. The transition to larger wafers will enable continued growth of the semiconductor industry and helps maintain a reasonable cost structure for future ...Avalanche photodiodes target bioterrorism agents
... chemical vapor deposition, a technique for depositing thin layers of atoms onto a semiconductor wafer. Many layers can be built up, each of a precisely controlled thickness and composition, to create ...Thin Germanium Wafers Shine Bright For Solar Cell Efficiency
... the waste and breakage of the brittle semiconductor. Germanium solar cells are expensive and so are only now used mainly on spacecraft but with the improved wafer-slicing method, "the idea is to make ...Engineers: Efficient organic LEDs a step toward better lights
... are built with organic semiconductors on large area glass substrates rather than inorganic semiconductor wafers. When used in display screens computer monitors, they have higher efficiency, better ...Cracking a tough nut for the semiconductor industry
... interleaved between layers of conductors and components in microprocessor chips and other high-performance semiconductor devices. As IC features like transistors have gotten ever smaller and crammed ...Melting defects could lead to smaller, more powerful microchips
... he said. Next, Chou's group plans to demonstrate this technique on large (8-inch) wafers. Several leading semiconductor manufacturers have expressed keen interest in the ...Scientists demonstrate method for integrating nanowire devices directly onto silicon
... function as light-emitting diodes, with the color of light determined by the type of semiconductor nanowire used. To demonstrate the potential scalability of their technique, the team fabricated ...'Nanoglassblowing' seen as boon to study of individual molecules
... devices are fabricated by etching tiny channels into a glass wafer with the same lithographic procedures used to manufacture circuit patterns on semiconductor computer chips. The planar (flat-edged) ...Exposing the sensitivity of extreme ultraviolet photoresists
... Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have confirmed that the photoresists used in next-generation semiconductor manufacturing processes now under development are twice as sensitive as ...New process creates 3-D nanostructures with magnetic materials
... materials such as nickel or nickel-iron alloys using techniques compatible with standard semiconductor manufacturing. The process, described in a recent paper,* could enable whole new classes of ...UC San Diego researchers enhance lithography light sources
... EUVL in high volume manufacturing. Nowadays, the light source in semiconductor lithography is applied directly from a laser through a mask to a wafer. In EUVL, a laser is used to produce extreme ...'Nanonet' circuits closer to making flexible electronics reality
... are etched in place. The lines are easy to create with a standard etching process used in the semiconductor industry. Future research may include work focusing on learning the reliability of the ...New technology could lead to camera based on human eye
... is that such a process applied to conventional electronics leads to catastrophic mechanical fracture in the brittle semiconductor materials. Rogers and Huang got around this by creating an array of ...Creating unconventional metals
... make transistors) back on. The new material exists in a quantum halfway house between magnet and semiconductor - in the same way that much more complex materials such as ceramics which exhibit high ...