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SIA announces that worldwide first quarter sales of semiconductors totaled $104.6 billion
Published: May 20, 2020
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), Washington, announces that worldwide sales of semiconductors totaled $104.6 billion during the first quarter of 2020.
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Weber ultrasonic cleaner gently removes contaminants from monocrystalline wafers
Published: May 20, 2020
Weber Ultrasonics, Germany, has developed the intelligent SonoPower 3S megasound system with frequencies from 500 to 1000 kHz for cleaning sensitive components such as monocrystalline wafers in the semiconductor industry.
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Taiwan Semiconductor plans to build and operate advanced semiconductor fab in Arizona
Published: May 19, 2020
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announces its intention to build and operate an advanced semiconductor fab in the United States with the mutual understanding and commitment to support from the U.S. federal government and the state of Arizona.
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Gatan Ilion II ion polisher designed for low-energy ion beam milling of samples for SEM
Published: May 18, 2020
Gatan, Pleasanton, Calif., offers the Ilion II ion polisher for cross-sectioning advanced packages for failure analysis.
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Rigaku introduces new dual-wavelength rotating anode x-ray diffractometer
Published: May 18, 2020
Rigaku, The Woodlands, Texas, introduces a new dual-wavelength single crystal system, the Rigaku XtaLAB Synergy-DW VHF dual-wavelength high-flux, rotating anode X-ray diffractometer.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific exploits SEM voltage contrast mechanism to probe FinFET transistors
Published: May 17, 2020
Engineers from Thermo Fisher Scientific discussed the voltage-contrast mechanism of a scanning electron microscope to probe electrical waveforms on FinFET transistors located within active integrated circuits, at the ASM International ISTFA 2019 conference in Portland, Oregon.
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Electro optical probing creates activity map of circuitry to localize defects in failure analysis
Published: May 17, 2020
Researchers from ON Semiconductor, Phoenix, addressed the challenges for FA engineers in fault localization when analyzing a die, at the ASM International ISTFA 2019 conference in Portland, Oregon.
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Asylum Research scanning capacitance microscopy accessory maps dopant amounts
Published: May 12, 2020
Oxford Instruments Asylum Research, Santa Barbara, Calif., has released a new scanning capacitance microscopy (SCM) accessory for its Cypher and Jupiter XR atomic force microscopes.
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Atomic force microscope and ammeter together enable topography mapping at Park Systems
Published: May 10, 2020
Engineers from Park Systems, Santa Clara, Calif., demonstrated how an atomic force microscope, when combined with an ammeter, can provide concurrent topography imaging and electrochemical mapping of a structure, at the ASM International MS&T 2019 Conference in Portland, Oregon.
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New method simplifies calculation of precise location of cracks on complex shapes
Published: May 05, 2020
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announce that they have developed a new calculation method that enables them to pinpoint the exact location and direction of a critical crack in a structure with a single analysis.
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