From Wafers to Exposure Materials and PackagingShin-Etsu Chemical's semiconductor business becomes easier to understand when ...

Nanoelectronics deal with extremely small electronic components — transistors, sensors and circuits that can fit on the tip of a needle. This technology powers our everyday lives through devices such ...

Silicon is the best-known semiconductor material. However, controlled nanostructuring drastically alters the material's properties. Using a specially developed etching apparatus, a team has now ...

A 300mm diameter silicon wafer is nearly 1mm thick during the circuit fabrication stage. In research published by Tokyo ...

In the era of megatrends such as electric vehicles (EVs), new technologies are emerging to keep up with evolving demands. One example of this is the evolution of compound semiconductors that use ...

There was no single moment when the modern electronics era began. No switch was flipped, no machine suddenly came to life. Instead, the transformation started from the simple realization that a common ...

Semiconductor industry researchers have been anticipating the need for better transistor channel materials to replace silicon for a long time, but silicon devices have continued to improve enough to ...

Semiconductors are a vital and mineral-intensive component in the electronic devices that power the modern economy. Four minerals central to semiconductor production—gallium, germanium, palladium, and ...

Using a specially developed etching apparatus, researchers produced mesoporous silicon layers with countless tiny pores and investigated their electrical and thermal conductivity. (Nanowerk News) ...