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Process Watch: Bigger and better wafers
… discuss some of the challenges of 450mm wafers . Authored by experts at KLA-Tencor ..... August 2, 2012 -- Chip manufacturers need wafers that are both bigger and better: bigger ..... devices with sub-20nm linewidths on 450mm wafers , beginning in 2014 or 2015. In the meantime …
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IQE and II-VI Inc. launch 150mm GaN HEMT epi wafers on SiC substrates
… mobility transistor (GaN HEMT) epitaxial wafers on 150mm diameter semi-insulating silicon ..... GaN-based high-power RF transistor wafers in formats that enable the most cost-effective ..... devices produced per wafer, enabling 150mm wafers to be processed using modern, high volume …
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Aledia makes its first LEDS on 8-inch silicon wafers using microwire technology
… first LEDs on 8-inch (200mm) silicon wafers . The cost of Aledia’s LED 3D chips ..... technology, made on large-size silicon wafers and with very low materials cost, represents ..... transferred it to 8-inch (200mm) silicon wafers . We can now push forward to optimize …
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Thin wafers win majority in electronics by 2016
… power devices, and other applications, thinned wafers will be the majority of wafers in the market by 2016, according to Yole Développement ..... chips will comprise the largest fraction of thinned wafers . While wire bonding will remain in use for years …
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Silicon wafers sliced to 10% conventional bulk with Hyperion 3
… solar module and semiconductor device wafers by up to 90%. The tool uses proton induced ..... exfoliation (PIE) to generate monocrystalline wafers that are less than 1/10th the thickness of conventional wafers . This eliminates excess silicon material …
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Advanced wire saws – more than just thinner wafers
Wafers for the PV industry likely will get thinner ..... with 120μm now the standard for slicing wafers for photovoltaic cells. This has contributed ..... shrinking the thickness of PV production wafers to as little as 160μm, or roughly half of …
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Thin wafer handling: Analysis of wafer-support tooling for stencil-print coating of thinned wafers
… coatings as thin as 38µm to be applied to wafers that have been mechanically thinned to as little as 150µm. With such thin wafers , and the requirement for low coating ..... coating thickness control. Thinner wafers may more easily translate deviations …
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Soitec claims lower-cost GaN template wafers for LED fab with HVPE, partners with Silian
… develop gallium nitride (GaN) template wafers using hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE). The resulting GaN template wafers will reduce the cost of manufacturing ..... the commercialization of GaN template wafers using Silian’s sapphire substrates …
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LED industry shifting production to 6-inch wafers
… for automating LED production on 6-in wafers , explains Paula Doe in an article for ..... to some 2 million (4-in equivalent) wafers a month. But there's still considerable ..... market -- by moving to larger-diameter wafers and automated production with tighter …
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EVG tool bonds 450mm SOI semiconductor wafers
… 450mm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers : EVG850SOI/450-mm. The automated ..... cleaning module cleans and pre-conditions wafers before wafer bonding. In the pre-bonding module, the two silicon wafers are joined together either in a vacuum …
