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c-Si, thin films vie for solar cell market
… for solar cells with the introduction of a new ThinFab line. The company credits its ability to make increasingly thinner films with optimized material usage. Oerlikon has dramatically increased the efficiency of thin-film silicon and enabled …
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Oerlikon Solar PV module improves Wp record by 8%
… Frankenberger, CEO of Oerlikon Solar. In addition to efficiency gains, Oerlikon has devised thin film photovoltaics with thinner films and lower materials usage, as demonstrated on its 120MW-ThinFab line producing modules for EUR 0.50/Wp. Oerlikon …
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Stanford sees solar future nanodomes plasmonics
… university team tackling the challenges of thin-film solar cells. "Using plasmonics we can absorb the light in thinner films than ever before," McGehee said. "The thinner the film, the closer the charged particles are to the electrodes …
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Alchimer's new TSV process: When less really is more
… resistive, difficult substrate, we're compatible with existing equipment." The industry has evolved to thinner and thinner films by depositing targeted material, which is ionized and then falls onto a surface, Lerner observed. If the traditional …
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Stanford sees solar future nanodomes plasmonics
… university team tackling the challenges of thin-film solar cells. "Using plasmonics we can absorb the light in thinner films than ever before," McGehee said. "The thinner the film, the closer the charged particles are to the electrodes …
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Copper interconnect advances to meet Moore's Law milestones
… Executive OVERVIEW To date, scaling has been enabled by thinner films , new materials, and new process flows (e.g ..... can further reduce the effective k value by enabling thinner films while maintaining good barrier properties with respect …
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KLA-Tencor ellipsometer now goes to 150nm; ONO stacks resolved
With greater complexity in ever thinner films used in manufacturing advanced CMOS transistors, such as the gate dielectric stacks formed by atomic layer deposition and graded …
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Process monitoring and surface characterization with in-line XPS metrology
… increasingly sensitive to process variations. Additional challenges come from the introduction of new materials and thinner films . The success of advanced characterization is increasingly linked to metrology tools’ capabilities. To face these …
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Technology News
… phones. –D.V. KLA-Tencor ellipsometer now goes to 150nm; ONO stacks resolved With greater complexity in ever thinner films used in manufacturing advanced CMOS transistors, such as the gate dielectric stacks formed by atomic layer deposition …
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VUV metrology sees ultra-thin films
… SE) provide thickness and composition information for thin dielectric films. As the industry has moved to ever thinner films , there is less material to refract light and SE signals drop off. Metrosol, one of last year's SEMICON West Technology …
