Texas Instruments is finding millions of dollars in the garbage. The chipmaker historically had sold its scrap silicon wafers--those wafers that, for one reason or another, can't be used to ...

It's like a Waterpik for silicon wafers. IBM has come up with a way to more efficiently recycle scrap silicon wafers owned by semiconductor manufacturers for the solar industry.

While solar cell makers are scrambling to secure silicon wafer supply in a booming industry that will continue to be dogged by a shortage of materials in the foreseeable future, scrap wafers seem ...

A reclamation process at IBM’s Burlington, Vt., plant uses an innovative pattern-removal technique to turn scrap semiconductor wafers into silicon-based solar panels, among other things. The ...

A variety of deposition methods for two-dimensional crystals have been demonstrated; however, their wafer-scale deposition remains a challenge. Here we introduce a technique for depositing and ...

For solar boom, scrap silicon for this promising mineral Date: August 3, 2020 Source: Cornell University Summary: Engineers have found that photovoltaic wafers in solar panels with all-perovskite ...

An insufficient supply of polysilicon, which has spurred the price of silicon wafers to a new high, has caused industry players to consider the possibility of using scrap wafers that have been ...

Wafer scrap rates have reached up to 5 to 10 percent, a rate that is hard to bear for manufacturers when the price for a wafer is NT$300,000, he said. The institute uses a nanosecond pulsed laser ...

A Chinese ban on imports of a waste material used for solar wafers may be bad news for foreign competitors but it is a big boost to China's solar sector.

IBM has come up with a cleaner way to reuse scrap silicon leftover from the chipmaking process. Its new method of scrubbing Intellectual Property (IP) off semiconductor wafers allows them to be ...

Now, the company sells about 1 million scrap wafers from its fabrication facilities in Texas, Germany and Japan to the solar industry, where they get converted into solar cells. Revenue from the ...

A Chinese ban on imports of a waste material used for solar wafers may be bad news for foreign competitors but it is a big boost to China's solar sector.