Like many big chemistry processes ... the hydrofluoric acid used for etching silicon wafers has to be as close to contaminant-free as possible. Electronics-grade hydrofluoric acid is made by ...

The richness of silicon chemistry is amazing; new discoveries arise continuously in this field. And although the surface area of 1 g of sand particles is extremely small, the internal surface area ...

In the latter half of 2024, global demand for silicon wafers began to rebound from the industry's downturn experienced in 2023, as reported by the SEMI Silicon ...

Intel announced they started silicon wafer production using new ASML lithography machines that will dramatically boost chip ...

It sat inside of a big box whose job was to take silicon wafers in on one side and spit out integrated circuits on the other. [BrendaEM] never really divulges how she got her hands on something so ...

The chip starts out as a thin wafer of P-type silicon. This is then coated with a layer of silicon dioxide -- kind of a silicon rust, which doesn't conduct electricity. On top of this is placed a ...

To achieve ExaFLOPS computing power, it requires at least 1,000 AI chiplets interconnected by advanced high-density RDL ...

Initially the fund will invest ¥93 billion ($12.685 billion) in various companies that produce materials like ultra-pure chemistry (e.g., resists) or silicon wafers as well as in companies that ...

The 'chemistry part' of the graphene story has ... to position the larger CMG platelets 11 where needed on a silicon wafer for further processing, and to perhaps create 'striped' graphene ...

In the latter half of 2024, global demand for silicon wafers began to rebound from the industry's downturn experienced in 2023, as reported by the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG ...

The laboratory also houses a high throughput powder X-ray diffractometer equipped with a linear detector, robotic sample changer and 30 silicon wafer sample holders. This allows powder diffraction ...

To be precise, by applying the very best functional layers to the silicon wafer and thus making complete solar cells. These are ultra-thin layers down to a few thousandths of a micrometre (nanometre) ...