From quartz sand to silicon wafers, the manufacturing process is critical for achieving the purity and quality needed for advanced semiconductor applications.

Electronic devices have become an indispensable part of our lives in our technology-driven world. These devices owe their existence to a crucial component known as the semiconductor wafer. In this ...

Flexibility: Applied’s most significant new platform in more than a decade hosts an unprecedented wide variety of chamber types, sizes and configurations, from Applied and partners Intelligence: ...

BEDFORD, Mass. & SEOUL, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Silicon wafer manufacturer 1366 Technologies together with its strategic partners, Hanwha Q CELLS Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. and parent company Hanwha Q ...

Flexibility: Applied’s most significant new platform in more than a decade hosts an unprecedented wide variety of chamber types, sizes and configurations, from Applied and partners Intelligence: ...

Scientists from Germany’s Fraunhofer ISE – together with a consortium of plant manufacturers, metrology companies, and research institutions – have developed a new production line concept for ...

Major processes in semiconductor wafer fabrication: 1) wafer preparation, 2) pattern transfer, 3) doping, 4) deposition, 5) etching, and 6) packaging. The process of creating semiconductors can be ...

This higher density of circuitry on a wafer requires greater accuracy and a highly fragile and advanced fabrication process. Several newer and highly complex ICs today are made of a dozen or more ...

German wafer manufacturer NexWafe GmbH announced it achieved a power conversion efficiency of 24.4% for a heterojunction (HJT) solar cell built with its ultrathin wafers. The company said the ...

KLA KLAC is benefiting from strong spending in the Wafer Fabrication Equipment (“WFE”) market. The company expects the WFE ...

Samsung Electronics has stepped up its deployment in the fan-out (FO) wafer-level packaging segment with plans to set up related production lines in Japan, according to industry sources. Samsung has ...