They’re both years late, but two long-awaited manufacturing changes are finally nearing implementation in the semiconductor industry. One is the processing of much larger silicon wafer disks, which ...

LONDON — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) has held a groundbreaking ceremony for an R&D center and wafer fab to develop and make light emitting diodes for lighting ...

Boston, MA – July 18, 2013 – As LED lighting becomes an $80 billion industry, the market for the epitaxial wafers (epi-wafers) LEDs are made from will grow to $4 billion in 2020, according to Lux ...

Seeking to reduce the cost of solid-state lighting and related applications, LED manufacturers are taking a page from the IC industry: They are looking at larger wafer sizes and new materials in the ...

Following its acquisition of Candela Instruments, KLA-Tencor (www.kla-tencor.com) has introduced the Candela CS20, an automated wafer inspection system designed to address the defect management ...

Why is 450-mm development so important to Intel (and Samsung and TSMC)? A few years ago, Intel and TSMC began heavily promoting the need for a transition from the current standard silicon wafer size, ...

A new technique measures free-form wafer shape, write Marco Franchi, Wooptix, and Leon van Dijk, Ronald Otten, Richard Van ...