A silicon wafer is a thin slice of crystalline silicon typically grown using the Czochralski process, which involves pulling a crystal seed from a molten silicon bath. A silicon wafer is a thin slice ...

The transition from 2-inch to 6-inch wafers enables higher throughput, improved uniformity, and closer alignment with ...

Major processes in semiconductor wafer fabrication: 1) wafer preparation, 2) pattern transfer, 3) doping, 4) deposition, 5) etching, and 6) packaging. The process of creating semiconductors can be ...

Semiconductor manufacturer Xanoptix (Merrimack, NH) has developed a wafer-scale process for the 3-D stacking of silicon with either GaAs or InP to make compound semiconductors. The company's Hybrid ...

Intel Foundry is making major strides in 2025, and that could help Intel close the lead on Apple Silicon. While Intel has taken aim at Apple's M4 in both performance and power efficiency, team blue ...

From large TSVs for MEMS to nanoTSVs for backside power delivery, cost-effective process flows for these interconnects are essential for making 2.5D and 3D packages more feasible. Through-silicon vias ...

U.K. startup Paragraf has successfully produced the first 6-inch graphene wafer at its manufacturing facility in Huntingdon, ...

This is a fragment of a small silicon wafer, on which are etched several integrated circuitsl, which performed the basic logic of the Apollo Guidance Computer. Creating an integrated circuit was a ...