Engineering researchers led by Distinguished Professor Alan Mantooth have received $18 million from the National Science Foundation to build and operate a national silicon carbide research and fabrication facility in Fayetteville, Ark. at the University of Arkansas.
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Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley, Calif., have demonstrated an approach for achieving near 100% light-emission efficiency in LEDs at all brightness levels based on stretching or compressing a thin semiconductor film in a way that favorably changes its electronic structure.
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The U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, announced $30 million in funding for 13 national lab and university-led research projects to develop new technologies that will help secure the supply of critical materials that build clean energy technologies.
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Atomica, Santa Barbara, Calif., formerly known as Innovative Micro Technology Inc., a global leader in microelectromechanical systems, has acquired $50 million of cutting-edge semiconductor processing tools.
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Researchers based at Soongsil University in Korea developed flexible and waterproof sensors that could unlock new applications for wearable electronics, transforming their use in healthcare, smart textiles, and for applications including scuba diving equipment.
Continue readingScientists at Sandia National Laboratories, N.M., in collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the University of Oregon, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, published the first ever nanoscale images taken inside intact lithium-metal coin batteries.
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Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, have created the first fiber with digital capabilities, able to sense, store, analyze, and infer activity after being sewn into a shirt.
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Researchers at Fraunhofer ISE, Germany, have succeeded in setting a new world record with a monolithic tandem cell made of III-V and silicon semiconductors, focusing on tandem photovoltaics, a cell technology that allows traditional efficiency limits to be exceeded by selectively combining different solar cell materials.
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Ametek Inc., Berwyn, Pa., announced it has completed three acquisitions: Magnetrol International, Aurora, Ill.; Crank Software, Ottawa, Canada; and EGS Automation, Donaueschingen, Germany.
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Leica Microsystems, Germany, a world-leading designer and manufacturer of opto-digital imaging solutions in the field of microscopy, announced the acquisition of Aivia, an AI-enabled innovative visualization, analysis, and interpretation software solution from SVision LLC.
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Scientists of the University of Stuttgart, Germany, developed a 3D-printed miniature spectrometer that can be manufactured directly onto camera sensors or arranged for quick (“snapshot”) and low-profile, highly customizable hyperspectral cameras.
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Incoming Chief Executive Officer Cristiano Amon at Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, said U.S. sanctions against China’s Huawei Technologies Co. may help alleviate a global shortfall in semiconductor supply.
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Chemists at Martin Luther University (MLU), Halle-Wittenberg, Germany have developed a way to integrate liquids directly into materials during a 3D printing process.
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Researchers at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, were able to isolate and image the structure and composition of the metallic line defect in a perovskite crystal BaSnO3.
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The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), Washington, D.C., applauded Congress for enacting the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) legislation that includes Title XCIX, “Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America,” which authorizes federal incentives to promote semiconductor manufacturing and federal investments in semiconductor research.
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Ambiq, Austin, TX, a technology leader recognized in ultra-low power microcontrollers (MCU), System-on-Chips (SoC), and Real-time Clocks (RTC), has been selected as the winner of the “IoT Semiconductor Company of the Year” by the IoT Breakthrough Awards.
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A team at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., has designed a system that can run AI tasks faster and with less energy by harnessing eight hybrid chips, each with its own data processor built right next to its own memory storage.
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Huntkey, Shenzhen, China, a leading provider of power solutions, has completed a customized car air purifier project for its business partner.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Silicon Valley, Calif.) and Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for AMD to acquire Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion.
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GlobalFoundries, Santa Clara, Calif., and Soitec, Paris, announce a multi-year supply agreement for 300mm radio frequency silicon-on-insulator wafers.
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Leco Corporation, St. Joseph, Mich., announces the addition of hydrogen analysis capabilities to the 828 series, which will transform the way users determine carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen in a variety of petrochemical and other organic materials.
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Researchers at Penn State, University Park, Pa., published a new paper in ACS Nano integrating photodetectors with durable Gorilla glass, the material used for smart phone screens manufactured by Corning Incorporated.
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A joint Canadian project aims to curb the COVID-19 pandemic and future epidemics with cold sprayed, copper-based coatings. In this digital-first article from Advanced Materials & Processes, ASM International’s flagship magazine, a team from industry, academia, and government in Canada outline their research, plan, and timeline for the widespread adoption of antiviral coatings that could limit the transmission of viruses on high-touch surfaces.
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Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, developed a fast and efficient way to make a carbon material that could be ideally suited to dissipating heat in electronic devices such as cooling the powerful electronics packed inside the latest smartphones.
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A new design for light-emitting diodes (LEDs) developed by a team of scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Md., may hold the key to overcoming a light source’s long-standing efficiency limitation.
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Gowin Semiconductor Corp., San Jose, Calif. and Guanzhou, China, releases the latest version of their GoAI machine learning platform, providing an SDK and accelerator to perform machine learning for edge inference using convolutional neural networks on Gowin field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
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When the new coronavirus struck, U.S. attempts to obtain and stockpile personal protective equipment, medical devices, and diagnostic testing equipment were too often hindered by local and global disruptions to supply chains. In this digital-first article from Advanced Materials & Processes, ASM International’s flagship magazine, a team from America Makes, Youngstown, Ohio., share how they have mobilized the additive manufacturing community to work together to address the nation’s medical equipment shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Samuel Associated Tube Group, Birmingham, Ala., announces plans to build a new 284,000 square foot facility in Jefferson County to consolidate existing facilities and provide capacity for future growth.
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Engineers from Exponent, Menlo Park, Calif., explained in a presentation at MS&T 2019 that although stainless steel is resistant to general corrosion, the failure analysis of a stainless steel hot water heater shows that it is susceptible to other modes of corrosion.
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Can-Eng Furnaces International Ltd., Niagara Falls, Ontario, announces that it has been awarded a contract from Oregon Products for a continuous high-capacity mesh belt austemper heat treatment system for its saw chains and other forestry cutting products.
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