January 8, 2009 - Technology News
FEI Company White Papers
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is extremely important for obtaining high-resolution images with high materials contrast. Until ...
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December 17, 2008 - Industry News
GSA, IC Insights release IC foundry report
The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) announces the availability of the 2009 IC Foundry Almanac. The Almanac, a collaboration between GSA and ...
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December 16, 2008 - Industry News
Rohm & Haas, IBM to develop chip packaging materials
Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials (NYSE:ROH), a leading supplier of materials for semiconductor packaging, has entered into a joint ...
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December 4, 2008 - Technology News
Using combinatorial science to qualify new processes and materials
The introduction of new materials into semiconductor manufacturing process flows is generating unprecedented improvements in integrated ...
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December 4, 2008 - Technology News
Moore’s Law - the z-dimension: a decade later
Almost 10 years ago I wrote an article for SST titled "Moore’s Law - the Z-dimension". The call was to shift focus towards Moore's Law in the ...
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December 4, 2008 - Technology News
Using combinatorial science to qualify new processes and materials
The introduction of new materials into semiconductor manufacturing process flows is generating unprecedented improvements in integrated ...
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December 4, 2008 - Industry News
'Long, dark season' ahead
Many OEMs held off on the usual holiday-season production ramp amid expectations of weak consumer demand due to the global economic crisis ...
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November 26, 2008 - Industry News
Analysis roundup: Stinky economy, souring forecasts
The extent of the financial crisis is still unknown, of course, and most agree that it will get worse before it gets better. We've been ...
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November 19, 2008 - Industry News
On display: Tech, strategy, glimpses at FPDI
In spite of the global economic crisis, the recent Flat-Panel Display International (FPDI) event drew a large crowd all three days. Not many ...
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November 12, 2008 - Industry News
SMIC denies 300mm production suspension
In response to some reports saying that the 12-inch plant of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation in Beijing ...
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November 4, 2008 - Industry News
Freescale uncrates MEMS sensors for handheld devices
Freescale Semiconductor has introduced two advanced 3-axis digital accelerometers to help mobile device developers meet the demand for ...
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October 31, 2008 - Industry News
G7 countries to keep making chips, panel concludes
Capital and infrastructure needs will far outweigh labor as drivers for chip fabs, so the major industrial nations should retain chipmaking ...
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October 28, 2008 - Industry News
Murphy’s Wall
Every technologist knows about Murphy’s First Law: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Most know about the Second Law: “If it could go ...
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October 27, 2008 - Technology News
Vacuum processing for solar cells
Equipment for making wafer-based silicon solar cells reports throughput not in hundreds, but in thousands of wafers/hour. Equipment for ...
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October 22, 2008 - Technology News
To 32nm and beyond: SPIE panel debates assortment of challenges
What challenges must maskmakers overcome to reach the 32nm node, and what challenges lie beyond? The BACUS Program Committee assembled a ...
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October 17, 2008 - Industry News
Navigant, Gartner, Displaybank experts shed light on solar/PV tech
At a recent Applied Materials/IEEE PV Technology Symposium, Paula Mints, principal analyst, PV Services Program, and associate director of the ...
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October 2, 2008 - Industry News
DRAM, NAND woes seen spilling into 2009
Despite a mild recovery in 2Q08, global DRAM makers are once again building inventories and pulling the rug out from prices, and the ...
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October 2, 2008 - Technology News
A vision for a next-generation 300mm factory
To help meet next-generation factory (NGF) challenges, ISMI has been tasked by its member companies to explore ways in which improvement in ...
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October 2, 2008 - Top Story News
Redefining semiconductor industry R&D
In 1987, Morris Chang, President of Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and a 25-year veteran of Texas Instruments ...
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October 2, 2008 - Technology News
MoSi-ing along to 32nm
The chrome material that has blocked the light on binary masks for a generation may finally have outlived its usefulness, according to ...
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September 25, 2008 - Technology News
Organic transistors and memories, and applications
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Next Chips: Organic Transistors and Memories and Applications They Will Enable" ...
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September 24, 2008 - Technology News
IQE to develop graphene-based RF for US fed program
IQE expertise applied to US government program to develop Carbon Electronics for RF Applications is pleased to announce that its Pennsylvania ...
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September 17, 2008 - Technology News
Directed density multiplication for patterned disk templates
Master templates for printing fine-pitch bit patterns on magnetic disk media can be manufactured using e-beam lithography to write lower ...
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September 17, 2008 - Technology News
HDDs: terabyte/in2 a near-term reality
Patterned media technology on hard disk drives? made possible by new lithographic processes with unprecedented levels of resolution, ...
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September 5, 2008 - Technology News
On-the-fly circular substrate centering for robotized vacuum systems
A new method for on-the-fly detection and correction of substrate-centering inaccuracies of a circular substrate is presented. ...
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