MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. today announced it has begun volume production of what it claims is a defect-free silicon wafer. According to the company, many silicon wafers have reduced surface ...
“Traps” are places where an electron can be found "trapped" within a semiconductor. These traps are highly undesirable because they prevent electrons from moving around quickly so that they can be ...
It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. Researchers inspect the quality of a fabricated silicon heterojunction solar cell. Provided by KIER A Korean research team ...
In this study, metal contaminants, liquid particle count and on-wafer defects of Si- HMs and filtration removal rates are monitored to determine the effect of filter type, pore size, media morphology, ...
Chinese researchers have discovered the leading cause of defects in the promising semiconductor material gallium nitride (GaN ...
Physical defects have always played a role in IC yields, and with today's nanometer technologies design sensitivity to these physical elements has continued to increase. The result has been a ...
For over 75 years, silicon has been the dominant material in the evolution of modern electronics, powering everything from smartphones to satellites. But as chipmakers push toward smaller nodes, ...
A new technique reveals single atom misfits and could help design better semiconductors used in modern and future electronics. One of the challenges of cramming smarter and more powerful electronics ...
Michigan State University combined terahertz laser light, shown as a red wavy arrow, with a scanning tunneling microscope, or STM, tip — the dark pyramid shape exchanging a red electron with a sample ...