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Graphene challenges future of silicon
A collaborative research project claims to have brought the world a step closer to producing a new material on which future nanotechnology could be based.
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Unmasking semiconductors
European researchers have developed a solution to ‘mask-less’ semiconductor lithography which claims to reduce the costs and production times associated with low-volume device manufacture and prototyping.
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Measuring the toughness of thin insulating films
Researchers have developed a technique that could improve the reliability and manufacturability of ICs.
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Forum sets new direction for photonics in Australia
Strong support is emerging for a nationally focused push to grow the Australian photonics/optoelectronics industry internationally, according to AEEMA's chief executive, Angus M Robinson
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Semiconductor income may decline by 22%
Worldwide semiconductor revenue is forecast to reach $252 billion in 2009, a 22.4% decline from 2008 revenue of $286.5 billion, according to the latest projections by Gartner.
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Mouser Electronics and Leadis Technology global distribution
Mouser Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with Leadis Technology, a fabless semiconductor company that specialises in designing and developing analog and mixed-signal semiconductors.
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Distribution deal
IDT (Integrated Device Technology) and Digi-Key have signed a distribution agreement.
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German firm adopts Australian design
Heidelberg Instruments has selected Altium as its electronics design standard.
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Contactless agreement
NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips and Renesas Technology, has expanded the licensing agreement on NXP's MiFare technology.
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Conductive ink deal
Sigma-Aldrich has signed an agreement with Plextronics to distribute its organic semiconductors and conductive inks.
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Optical chip factory opened in Germany
The last section of OSRAM’s new semiconductor plant has been opened in Regensburg, Germany, by Martin Goetzeler, OSRAM CEO, Dr Rüdiger Müller, CEO of OSRAM Opto Semiconductors and Regensburg Mayor Hans Schaidinger.
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Chemists close in on molecular switch
The electronics industry believes that when it comes to circuits, smaller is better and many foresee a future where electrical switches and circuits will be as tiny as single molecules.
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Silicon revolution on the way
Silicon nanocrystals and printed forms of silicon will transform electronics over the next decade with new memory, logic, photovoltaic and optoelectronic products enabled by this new technology reaching $2.5 billion in revenue by 2015, according to a report from NanoMarkets LC, a market research firm.
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Rising demand for compound semiconductors
RF Micro Devices has announced plans to expand its compound semiconductor manufacturing capacity to support growth expectations in the company's cellular and multi-market product groups.
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New company in semiconductor market
Royal Philips Electronics has announced that Silicon Hive has been spun out as an independent company.
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Speed bumps less important than potholes for graphene
For electrical charges racing through an atom-thick sheet of graphene, occasional hills and valleys are no big deal, but the potholes - single-atom defects in the crystal - they're killers, according to researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Companies team up
Semikron International and LS Industrial Systems Korea are teaming up to develop and deliver power electronic solutions for the industrial drives and consumer market.
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Electronic 'crowd behaviour' revealed in semiconductors
Like crowds of people, microscopic particles can act in concert under the right conditions. By exposing crowd behaviour at the atomic scale, scientists discover new states and properties of matter.
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Thin film TEG harvests and converts waste heat into electricity
Nextreme has developed a miniature, thin film thermoelectric generator (TEG) that converts heat directly into electricity.
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Arrow Asia Pac Ltd distribution agreement
Arrow Asia Pac Ltd has signed a distribution agreement with Diodes Incorporated, manufacturer and supplier of high-quality application-specific standard products within the broad discrete and analog semiconductor markets. The agreement is an extension to Diodes’ long-term partnership with Arrow Electronics.
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New partner for memory and video processing circuits
Glyn is extending its distribution program with memory and video processing circuits from Averlogic Technologies, a semiconductor company with headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan.
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$4.8 million for advanced silicon chip research
Senator the Hon Helen Coonan has announced $4.8 million in funding to incorporate an innovative team of silicon chip design researchers from North Ryde into the National ICT Australia (NICTA).
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New particle charges cuprate superconductor theory
New fundamental particles aren't found only in particle accelerators, but can also be found hiding in plain pieces of ceramic, according to scientists at the University of Illinois in the US.
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New name for integrated circuit design and manufacturing company
Integrated Electronics Solutions Pty Ltd, an Australian-based integrated circuit design and manufacturing company, has announced a new trading name for the semiconductors division.
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Broad strategic alliance announced
Sun Microsystems and Intel Corporation have announced a broad strategic alliance centred on Intel's endorsement of the Solaris operating system (OS) and Sun's commitment to deliver a comprehensive family of enterprise and telecommunications servers and workstations based on Intel Xeon processors.
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Switchable two-colour light source on a silicon chip
Silicon is an important material for electronic chips and processors, but it has a big drawback: as an indirect semiconductor, it hardly emits any light.
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New standard for semiconductor industry
A wide range of optical electronic devices, from laser disk players to traffic lights, may be improved in the future thanks to a small piece of semiconductor, about the size of a button, coated with aluminum, gallium and arsenic (AlGaAs).
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Development agreement on advanced high-voltage CMOS process
IBM and austriamicrosystems have announced the signing of a development agreement for an advanced high-voltage (HV) complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process technology to be used in a range of consumer, automotive, industrial and medical applications.
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Technique may speed development of molecular electronics
To produce materials for modern electronics, small amounts of impurities are introduced into silicon - a process called doping. It is these impurities that enable electricity to flow through the semiconductor and allow designers to control the electronic properties of the material.
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Successful collaboration
Universal Display Corporation and LG.Philips LCD have developed a flexible, full-colour, active-matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) display.
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Semiconductor technology for future wireless home and office
A transceiver integrated on a single chip that operates at 60 GHz on the CMOS process has been announced by NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence.
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