A team of engineers at Fudan University has successfully designed, built and run a 32-bit RISC-V microprocessor that uses ...

SE: With all these thermal issues and growing complexity of these multi-die assemblies, are there new kinds of stress testing ...

The Silicon Quantum Group has submitted a new pre-print by PhD student Michael Dobinson. In their paper, “Electrically-triggered spin-photon devices in silicon”, they show a new electrical control ...

GlobalWafers, a silicon wafer company that experienced revenue and profit declines in 2024, anticipates a return to growth in 2025. The Taiwan-based company also ...

Today, a new path has been announced, with signed deals among Corning, Suniva and Heliene. Corning will make silicon wafers in Michigan using polysilicon from nearby Hemlock Semiconductor, of which ...

Shanghai Key Laboratory of Materials Laser Processing and Modification, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China ...

Micromachining silicon with lasers (but no sharks)! Today we're exploring different properties and parameters involved with cutting silicon with a pulsed nanosecond laser Greenland forms new unity ...

Soldering tiny stuff is hard, if not impossible, without some optical assistance. [Ad_w00000] was having just this problem, so built himself a soldering magnifier to help. The magnifier uses a ...

Inspection/metrology challenges Today’s 300mm fabs are automated plants that process wafers in a step-by-step flow using ... such as a critical-dimension scanning electron microscope (CD-SEM), optical ...

The stage accommodates a 300mm wafer with repositioning. To further expand the application versatility of the 5600LS system, new 300 mm x 300 mm and multi-sample 2-inch-wafer stages are now available.