Since the inception of power semiconductor devices, the market has always looked for raising their breakdown voltage. The breakdown voltage is the highest voltage applicable to the device before it breaks down and becomes non-functional. Usually, semiconductor devices used in … Continue reading → […]

A new report of HIS technology points out to a forecast of strong growth in global revenue for MEMS microphones from 2013 and 2014 from about $800 million to more than one billion dollars with a continued growth estimated to … Continue reading → […]

Since their first discovery and subsequent improvements, LEDs have always suffered several drawbacks when compared to traditional incandescent light bulbs, namely efficiency loss at high power and lack of reliable efficient solution for some colors in the spectrum, green for … Continue reading → […]

While much of the LED industry is now focused on research and development along with mass production of GaN on patterned sapphire substrates, analysts are wondering whether the industry will make a transition to GaN on silicon technology or not. … Continue reading → […]

So where Applied Materials see their strength in this process? One of the areas where Applied Materials can work well with is the creation of the structure itself as the requirement for high precision manufacturing of the staircase structure leaves, … Continue reading → […]

Recently in the internet there is much buzz about 3D stacking and in particular 3D NAND stacking with the upcoming revolution in the flash memory market with the mass adoption of this technology by all the major players. One of … Continue reading → […]

In a market analysis of last year, research market firm HIS forecast a boom in the LED industry in a report with title “Demand for Key Raw Material Set to Double as LED Market Booms”. According to the firm, a … Continue reading → […]

At first, we need to ask ourselves why Moore` s Law should continue and what would be the possible future applications of ICs with tens or hundreds of times the computing power of today. The current wave of smartphones and … Continue reading → […]

It is about twenty years, that is, since about when I started to become seriously interested in microelectronics and IC lithography, that I have heard this question from time to time: is Moore`s Law coming to an end? And, if … Continue reading → […]

US maker Honeywell has formally announced today that it will start to sell a new kind of copper manganese sputtering targets for sputtering equipment. The main application of the targets will likely be semiconductor manufacturing. Director of Honeywell department for … Continue reading → […]