• Nanoelectronics Edge Into Production

  Paula Doe, Contributing Editor, SEMI, San Jose, June 19, 2009
  Graphene and spin wave transistors are among the technologies that look interesting for next-generation FETs. Near term, nanoelectronics products are entering commercial production. At SEMICON West, nanoelectronics challenges are part of the show's Extreme Electronics series on emerging technologies.  More

• Printed Electronics Seeing Wide Progress

  Paula Doe, Contributing Editor, SEMI, San Jose, June 19, 2009
  Executives from an array of printed electronics companies will describe progress in the field at SEMICON West. Materials, equipment and manufacturing processes for printed electronics are a focus at the show, including a July 16 session on Manufacturing Technology for Commercial Printed and Flexible Electronics.  More

• Energy Frontier Research Centers to Exploit Nanotechnology

  Staff, May 13, 2009
  The U.S. federal government is investing $777M over the next five years in 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers, including two that will be centered at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.  More

• Saudi Arabia and Intel Plan R&D Center

  Laura Peters, Editor-in-Chief, April 29, 2009
  Intel will help establish a center for nano-manufacturing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, located at the King Abdul-Aziz City of Science and Technology (KACST) in Riyadh. Intel researchers will join with technologists and graduate students recruited from the Middle East, Turkey and Africa region (META) to work on processing and fabrication challenges.  More

• SEMI Forum Looks at Valley’s Future

  Alexander E. Braun, Senior Editor, April 27, 2009
  Silicon Valley is being adversely affected by U.S. policies on taxation and immigration, said Ultratech CEO Art Zafiropoulo at a recent SEMI event. “There is something essentially wrong with a policy that forces educated people to leave and makes it easy for the uneducated to stay,” he said.  More

• SWCNTs May Offer Cooler Interconnects

  Sally Cole Johnson, Contributing Editor, April 6, 2009
  University at Buffalo engineers recently proved with quantum mechanics that single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) offer “cooling” properties far superior to those provided by metals in electronics. Nanotubes could replace many of the metals used in ICs now, argues Cemal Basaran, director of the university’s Electronic Packaging Laboratory.  More

• ‘Tuned’ Graphene Points to Faster Chips

  Alexander E. Braun, Senior Editor, April 2, 2009
  Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have determined that the chemistry of the surface on which graphene is deposited plays a key role in shaping the material’s conductive properties. When deposited on a surface treated with oxygen, graphene shows semiconducting properties, and when deposited on a material treated with hydrogen, it exhibits metallic properties. The research was based on simulations.  More

• Ink Enables CNTs for Transistors, Solar

  Alexander E. Braun, Senior Editor, March 18, 2009
  Scientists at Cornell and DuPont have invented a method for preparing single-walled CNTs for suspension in a semiconducting “ink,” which can then be printed into thin flexible electronics as transistors and photovoltaic (PV) materials.  More

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