• Cost a Major Challenge for Advanced Packaging Solutions

  Jan Vardaman, President, TechSearch International, Austin, Texas, July 2, 2009
  Over the past several years, IDMs have seen the price of silicon fabrication fall, while the cost of packaging, assembly and test has steadily been on the rise.  More

• Wafer-Level Packaging in Africa?

  Sally Cole Johnson, Contributing Editor, July 1, 2009
  Yes, Africa. Nemotek Technologie is manufacturing wafer-level optics and packaging in its state-of-the-art facility located in Morocco's Rabat Technopolis Park.  More

• Ulvac Rolls PECVD for Tandem PV Cells

  Staff, June 25, 2009
  Ulvac Inc. has developed a PECVD system aimed at tandem junction PV cells. The CIM-1400 system adds a microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si) layer to amorphous silicon (a-Si) thin-film solar cells, boosting cell conversion efficiency. The tool will be incorporated into a turnkey production line for tandem junction thin-film production.  More

• Printable Electronics Hits Display Needs

  Michael P.C. Watts, Impattern Solutions, Austin, Texas, June 24, 2009
  Printable electronics could reduce the cost of making flexible displays of the kind used in the Kindle and other E-books. At the recent SID 2009 conference, researchers discussed the marriage of printable electronics and low-power displays used in emerging portable devices, which must be light, flexible, low-power, and readable in ambient light.  More

• 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

• MEMS Markets See Growth Opportunities

  Paula Doe, Contributing Editor, SEMI, San Jose, June 19, 2009
  The MEMS industry continues to do remarkably well compared with the IC industry because it is so highly diversified. While automotive, industrial pressure sensing, and inkjet head markets are struggling, new medical and portable system markets are growing rapidly.  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

• Emerging Technologies Go 'Extreme' at SEMICON West

  SEMI, San Jose, June 18, 2009
  Extreme Electronics is the latest "show-within-a-show" concept at SEMICON West, highlighting the technologies for and commercial opportunities in emerging markets, including MEMS, printed and flexible electronics, solid-state lighting and nanoelectronics.  More

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