Semiconductors

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  • Semiconductor making made more energy efficient
    Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in cooperation with the International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative, have released, for beta testing, a computer-based tool to help the world’s semiconductor manufacturing facilities evaluate and improve their energy efficiency.
  • Reliable power electronics for windmill generators
    In the megawatt range, high-power electronics applications need powerful semiconductors. However, even the largest semiconductors available today are still not strong enough for some applications. It is therefore necessary to connect them in parallel. The parallel connection of semiconductor devices in a traditional power electronics circuit is very common.
  • Si substrate loss measured after ion implantation
    IMEC has shown that spectroscopic ellipsometry can be used to measure Si substrate loss after ion implantation. With decreasing device dimensions, the need for this kind of metrology has become more and more important.
  • Spintronics research attracts $754,000 grant
    A team of researchers, from the University of Surrey in England and two other institutions, has been awarded a grant of around $754,000 to develop ultra-small-scale silicon structures for ‘spintronic’ semiconductors.
  • Persistent spin state could revolutionise spintronics
    By controlling the collective spin state of highly mobile electrons in semiconductors, researchers in the Materials Sciences Division at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory claim to have taken a major step forwards in the technology of spintronics.
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  • Sensor conditioning IC
    ZMD has expanded its family of capacitive sensor signal conditioning devices with the wide dynamic range ZMD31210 cLite IC.
  • Energy-saving MCU
    Power consumption in CMOS ICs is broadly classified as dynamic power in an operating circuit, such as switching and static power, an example being leakage which is measured any time a circuit is powered on.
  • Gate drivers
    Zetex Semiconductors has announced a series of bipolar gate drivers for switching MOSFETs and IGBTs in power supplies and motor drives.
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  • Chip revenue down by 114.4% in 2009
    The semiconductor industry will post a revenue decline for just the sixth time in the last 25 years, with worldwide revenue totalling $245 billion in 2009, an 11.4% decline from 2008, according to preliminary estimates by Gartner.
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