Solaicx specializes in equipment for making silicon ingots, logs of pure silicon that get heated to high temperatures and then sliced like lunch meats to make silicon wafers. The silicon in the ingots ...

Modern photolithography machines must deliver extraordinary precision on a repeatable basis, and in high volume production. In response to demands for increased throughput in the semiconductor ...

With demand for chip production on an upswing, the U.S. is on track to triple its chip manufacturing capacity by 2032, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). It follows that this ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised a system for manipulating and precisely positioning individual nanowires Researchers at the National Institute of ...

The ability to create materials with well-defined characteristics at the micro-and sub-micrometer dimensions is critical in a broad range of research fields and enterprises, from microelectronic chips ...

MUNICH, Germany — The processing of silicon wafers used for the manufacture of solar cells could provide a welcome boost to the semiconductor equipment and materials industries which are looking at ...