Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, and Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, announced an alliance, aided by the Arizona Commerce Authority, that brings more than $270 million to create a world-class shared research, development and prototyping facility, the Materials-to-Fab Center, in the university’s MacroTechnology Works building at ASU Research Park.
Spirit Electronics, Phoenix, AZ, acquired Insight Analytical Labs, Colorado Springs, CO, to add device analysis services including destructive physical analysis, to its existing full-turnkey semiconductor supply chain services.
Testing the longevity of new electric vehicle battery designs could be four times faster with a streamlined approach, researchers at the University of Michigan have shown.
Researchers from Tohoku University, Japan, used sputtering to fabricate large-area 2D vdW tetra-chalcogenides and identified an exceptionally promising material ー niobium telluride ーthat exhibits an ultra-low melting point, opening up new possibilities for developing high-performance phase change memories.
A University of Minnesota team has, for the first time, synthesized a thin film of a unique topological semimetal material that has the potential to generate more computing power and memory storage while using significantly less energy. The researchers were also able to closely study the material, leading to some important findings about the physics behind its unique properties.
