The latest news and information on industries related to semiconductor manufacturing, including nanotechnology, MEMS, photovoltaics/solar cells, displays, and optoelectronics.
Oki Integrates AlGaAs LEDs on Silicon Mounting Chips Kenji Tsuda, Asia Contributing Editor - 04/24/2008
Oki Digital Imaging Corp. is in mass production with LED print heads that use a film bonding technique to integrate AlGaAs epitaxial layers on CMOS silicon ICs. The approach avoids wasting valuable space on bonding pads, resulting in higher-density arrays for LED print heads, Oki managers said at the INC4 conference in Tokyo. More
Nanometrics targets solar manufacturing industry with Tevet acquisition By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor - 05/09/2008
To broaden its integrated metrology product line, Milpitas, Calif.-based semiconductor metrology company Nanometrics Inc this week said it has acquired Tevet Process Control Technologies Ltd based in Yoknea’m, Israel, through an all-cash asset purchase transaction.
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DuPont plans China photovoltaic R&D, production plant By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor - 05/07/2008
To support its role in the rapidly growing photovoltaic solar energy industry, DuPont will soon begin construction on a research center in Hong Kong and a manufacturing facility in Shenzhen.
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Qimonda Enters Solar Cell Manufacturing With Centrosolar Staff - 05/05/2008
DRAM maker Qimonda AG will partner with Centrosolar AG to build a solar cell manufacturing plant in Vila do Conde, Portugal. The plant will make 30 million solar cells per year when it begins production next year.
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Computing Reaches for Terahertz Speeds Alexander E. Braun, Senior Editor - 05/05/2008
Research at the University of Utah (Salt Lake City) has taken a step that may lead to the creation of supercomputers that run on far-infrared (FIR) radiation instead of electricity.
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Qimonda, Centrosolar set up solar cell manufacturing JV By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor - 05/05/2008
In an effort to combat rough memory market conditions by generating a new revenue stream for itself, Munich, Germany-based memory company Qimonda AG announced today that it has inked a contract with German solar company Centrosolar Group AG to jointly build, equip and operate a solar cell manufacturing plant, which will produce solar cells based on silicon.
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Innovative Film Protects Thin-Film Solar Cells, Other Plastic Electronics Aaron Hand, Executive Editor, Electronic Media - 05/01/2008
Scientists from Singapore’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering have developed a barrier film that enables a significantly longer lifetime for plastic electronic devices such as low-cost solar cells, flexible displays and OLEDs. The new technique protects these devices from moisture 1000× more effectively than other available technologies.
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Pinto: Grid Parity Coming Soon Laura Peters, Editor-in-Chief - 05/01/2008
Depending on where you live in the world, grid parity for solar energy is coming soon or has already arrived, according to Mark Pinto, general manager of Applied Materials’ Energy and Environmental Solutions (Santa Clara, Calif). Speaking at the SEMI Strategic Business Conference in Napa Valley, Calif., Pinto said many countries in Europe are approaching grid parity with conventional forms of providing electricity, including oil, coal and natural gas.
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Dan Herr is director of Nanomanufacturing Science Research at SRC. An important part of his research focuses on nanotechnology’s demands on metrology, and he discusses his work to determine where metrology technology’s gaps are, and how to fill them.
LED Design, Optimization Using TCAD Modeling Ricardo Borges, Wei-Choon Ng and Gergö Letay, Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, Calif., 04/01/2008
TCAD modeling is widely used in semiconductor manufacturing simulation and analysis routines, from wafer track schedulers to yield management systems. The optoelectronics industry is now applying TCAD to its manufacturing processes, enabling control of process variations and improved yields....
WLP Could Transform MOEMS, MEMS Herwig Kirchberger, EV Group, St. Florian, Austria, 04/01/2008
True wafer-level packaging could dramatically reduce the cost of M(O)EMS manufacturing. MOEMS packages require optical transparency at the operating wavelength of the individual sensors and actuators, in addition to the conventional packaging requirements of MEMS....
Metrology Drives Nanotech Progress Alexander E. Braun, Senior Editor, 12/01/2007
All aspects of nanotechnology, whether working with MEMS or carbon nanotubes, require a high degree of metrology to enable manufacturing processes and device integration....
LED Design, Optimization Using TCAD Modeling
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