Stephen Rothrock founded ATREG in 2000 to help global advanced technology companies divest and acquire infrastructure-rich manufacturing assets. Over the last 25 years, his firm...
The increasing challenges and rising cost of logic scaling, along with demands for an increasing number of features, are pushing more companies into advanced...
By Liz Allan, Jesse Allen, and Karen Heyman
Global semiconductor equipment billings dipped 2% year-over-year to US$25.8 billion in Q2, and slipped 4% compared with...
News: Optoelectronics 7 September 2023 A technology collaboration has been announced in which ams OSRAM GmbH of Premstätten, Austria and Munich, Germany will provide...
Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is often represented as benefiting from the 13.5 nm wavelength (actually it is a range of wavelengths, mostly ~13.2-13.8 nm),...
Aug 02, 2023
(Nanowerk Spotlight) All mechanical systems exhibit vibrational resonances, where energy transmission through the structure spikes at certain natural frequencies. This resonance...
News: Optoelectronics 15 June 2023 Analog/digital (mixed-signal) integrated circuit, micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) and specialty semiconductor foundry X-FAB Silicon Foundries SE of Tessenderlo, Belgium is...
Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography systems are the most advanced lithography systems in use today. This article is a basic primer on this important yet...
Wet-like plasma etching
Researchers from Nagoya University and Hitachi developed a new etch method called wet-like plasma etching that combines the selectivity of wet...