MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. today announced it has begun volume production of what it claims is a defect-free silicon wafer. According to the company, many silicon wafers have reduced surface ...

From quartz sand to silicon wafers, the manufacturing process is critical for achieving the purity and quality needed for ...

Reducing defects on the wafer edge, bevel, and backside is becoming essential as the complexity of developing leading-edge chips continue to increase, and where a single flaw can have costly ...

Scientists in the US have identified a robust new qubit in silicon, dubbed the ...

“Traps” are places where an electron can be found "trapped" within a semiconductor. These traps are highly undesirable because they prevent electrons from moving around quickly so that they can be ...

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 ...

PCA and K-means clustering applied to Raman and PL imaging reveal structural defects in silicon wafers, enhancing understanding of optoelectronic performance.

South Korean researchers have developed a process to produce ultra-thin wafers without sacrificing any of the substrates. Their technique is based on a new approach involving the use of ...

Scientists in China analyzed defective solar cells based on Czochralski (Cz) silicon wafers and found Swirl defects may be responsible for an efficiency drop of up to 4.7%. According to them, the ...