German wafer manufacturer NexWafe GmbH announced it secured financing of €30 million ($32.0 million) from current and new investors. The company said it will use the funds to move forward with the ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

German solar wafer specialist Nexwafe is among eight European companies that is receiving scale up investments through the latest round of the European Commission’s EIC STEP Scale Up call. The ...

JBD has announced that it has completed a major upgrade of its MicroLED microdisplay mass-production architecture, shifting from a 4-inch-based manufacturing architecture to a 12-inch reconstructed ...

Detecting macro-defects early in the wafer processing flow is vital for yield and process improvement, and it is driving innovations in both inspection techniques and wafer test map analysis. At the ...

NexWafe’s EpiNex solar wafers achieved 24.4% efficiency on a commercial M6 heterojunction (HJT) cell line, for the first time delivering performance parity with conventional CZ wafers. Modules made ...

Silicon is the second most abundant element in Earth’s crust, but is rarely found in pure form. High-purity quartzite (SiO 2) is reduced in an electric arc furnace at around 1,800 °C using carbon ...

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 ...

Semiconductor wafers serve as the foundational substrate for microelectronic devices, yet their production is prone to a variety of surface and subsurface defects that compromise yield and reliability ...