Dr. Davor Sutija is the CEO of NexWafe, a solar photovoltaic company establishing a new standard for the future of engineered green wafers. With the advent of the United States’ first-ever clean ...

Solar start-up 1366 Technologies is working on a technology that promises to dramatically cut the cost of solar cell manufacturing. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

The shortage of semiconductors – the computer chips that products such as smartphones, laptops, cars and even washing machines rely on – continues to impact industries around the world. The current ...

As logic and memory semiconductor devices approach the limits of Moore’s Law, the requirements for accuracy in layer transfer become increasingly stringent. One leading silicon wafer manufacturer ...

Electronic devices have become an indispensable part of our lives in our technology-driven world. These devices owe their existence to a crucial component known as the semiconductor wafer. In this ...

BERNIN, France — Soitec SA, a maker of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers, is installing equipment in what it claims will be the world's largest SOI wafer making facility. One complete tool set needed ...

For the past couple decades, scientists at an R&D lab in Bay County have been vaporizing silicon carbide inside of furnaces at twice the temperature of lava to make chunks of crystal as durable as ...

NexWafe’s high-throughput epitaxy tool, ProCon 2.5. Image: NexWafe German solar wafer manufacturer NexWafe has announced “key milestones” in its epitaxial wafer production which it claims can reshape ...

Silicon wafer shipments have been on a torrid and record breaking pace in the first half of 2021, where demand continues to outstrip supply. So what’s in store for buyers of wafers for the remainder ...