There’s nothing more freeing than to be an engineer with no perceptible budget in sight. [BrendaEM] walks us through a teardown of a machine that was designed under just such a lack of constraint. It ...

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has developed a means to screen dud silicon wafers prior to the manufacture of photovoltaic cells, a technique that the lab claims could save the solar ...

Modern photolithography machines must deliver extraordinary precision on a repeatable basis, and in high volume production. In response to demands for increased throughput in the semiconductor ...

With demand for chip production on an upswing, the U.S. is on track to triple its chip manufacturing capacity by 2032, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). It follows that this ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Chinese chipmaking tools vendor Kingsemi launched a new generation of its wafer coating and ...

A new technique may vastly reduce the overall cost of wafer technology and enable devices made from more exotic, higher-performing semiconductor materials than conventional silicon. The new method ...

Solar power still costs more than energy gained from burning coal or gas. That fact may put opponents of subsidies up in arms, but it’s great for companies that automate photovoltaic (PV) ...

In 2016, annual global semiconductor sales reached their highest-ever point, at $339 billion worldwide. In that same year, the semiconductor industry spent about $7.2 billion worldwide on wafers that ...