MEI, a diversified manufacturing and service company serving the solar, semiconductor, and high technology industries, announced that its Pura wet processing system has achieved a major milestone to produce high-purity polysilicon. This ultra-pure electronic-grade material is suitable for high efficiency solar cell and semiconductor production.
An Environmentally Benign Manufacturing research team led by Tim Gutowski, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is working on the environmental impacts and costs associated with advanced material manufacturing.
Headquartered in Bernin, France, Soitec has been awarded new certifications from the Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series (OHSAS) and the International Standards Organization (ISO) based on the audit carried out at the end of 2011.
GLOBALFOUNDRIES disclosed that the company's Fab 1 located in Dresden, Germany has supplied 250,000 semiconductor wafers using 32 nm high-k metal gate (HKMG) technology. This is a major landmark representing the company's competitive edge over other foundries using HKMG technology and its ability to ramp advanced technologies to mass production.
Silicon Genesis (SiGen) has completed the specifications of the new GenII PolyMax system, the company’s second-generation production system for manufacturing thin-silicon solar wafers.
A new manufacturing method to produce novel structures made of various semiconductors has been developed by scientists from CSEM, ETH Zurich, Università di Milano-Bicocca and Politecnico di Milano. The semiconductor structures can be produced in any thickness on silicon substrates, which are cheap and found in abundance.
Scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich, a research institute, have identified an unexpected strong bonding between two organic layers. These structures create a base for innovative electronic components made from organic semiconductors.
The Centre of Excellence in Advanced Packaging, a world-class research and development lab, has been officially inaugurated by Applied Materials and the Institute of Microelectronics (IME), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), at Science Park II in Singapore.
AMD has amended its wafer supply agreement (WSA) with GLOBALFOUNDRIES. In this deal, the two companies have settled with an agreeable wafer price mechanism for the fiscal year 2012.
Applied Rigaku Technologies, a leader in the analytical and industrial instrumentation technology, has introduced a new method for testing the thin metallic films present on silicon wafers.
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