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a-Si PV efficiency chases c-Si thanks to nano-structuring
… NTU) used a nanostructure texture on amorphous silicon ( a - Si ) to boost solar cell efficiency without greatly increasing ..... photovoltaics. The nanostructuring method leaves a texture on the a - Si surface that increases power conversion by increasing light …
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a-Si , nano-Si PV developers order MVS tools
MVSystems Inc. received several tool orders for thin-film silicon photovoltaics development. The cluster tools will be used to develop amorphous and nano-silicon solar cells, as well as advanced heterojunction designs.
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Oxide TFT comes to the fore with FPD growth
… forward, as profitability worsens for amorphous silicon ( a - Si ) thin film transistors (TFT). New core technologies are ..... performance of TFTs. Thin film transistor technologies include a - Si , low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS), organic, oxide …
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RF power generator suits various silicon fab steps
… NASDAQ:MKSI) introduced the elite RF Power Generator for RF deposition and etch in amorphous silicon photovoltaics ( a - Si PV) , light emitting diode (LED) , and micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) manufacturing. The 13.56MHz elite …
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Translucent demos LED growth via one-step epitaxy with rare earth oxides on Si
… Si technology on a 100mm-diameter wafer that exhibits high reflectivity using a lattice-matched REO material grown on a Si substrate, capped by a GaN layer that can support further nitride epitaxy for LED structure growth. The GaN-on-Si template …
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DRIE expands from MEMS to advanced packaging and more applications
… DRIE technology. Today, DRIE is used through three different technology platforms: -- Interposers (vias are etched in a Si - or glass – wafer with no active die; this application also includes LEDs submounts) -- 3D TSV “stack” / “ground vias …
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3D micro-structuring, OLED display fab nab laser awards
… on Gen-6 FPD panels, increasing throughput over typical Gen-4 tools. In ELA, a laser processes amorphous silicon ( a - Si ) into low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS), increasing electron mobility by more than 100x. The laser line beam has …
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Top 10 LCD manufacturing trends of 2012
… produced using amorphous silicon thin-film transitors ( a - Si TFTs). Although a - Si suffers from poor mobility, it is a low-cost semiconductor ..... IGZO) offers mobility performance somewhere between a - Si and LTPS. Although it is a less mature technology …
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OLED trends: Materials, color patterning advances and the display race
… are developing AMOLEDs using oxide or a - Si TFT backplanes, and are likely to start production in 2012. Table. LTPS, a - Si , and Oxide TFT for AMOLED. Source ..... Technology Report. Characteristic LTPS a - Si Oxide TFT Electron mobility Excellent: 10-500 …
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AMOLED TV manufacturing status, price trends
… existing Gen-8 amorphous silicon ( a - Si ) LCD fabs that will be converted to ..... LGD’s existing eighth-generation a - Si LCD fab. LGD indicated that such a conversion of an existing a - Si fab to make oxide silicon backplanes …
