Sentences with phrase «silicon wafers»

«It's also important in cleanroom procedures, nanofabrication and microprocessor formation,» said Schrader, who pointed out that microprocessors are fabricated on silicon wafer substrates with a thin layer of glass, upon which circuits are laid.

The team integrated a three - dimensional array of carbon nanotubes into a microfluidic device by using chemical vapor deposition and photolithography to grow and pattern carbon nanotubes onto silicon wafers.

The single - atom transistor is made by carving a slot in a hydrogen - coated silicon wafer with a tunneling electron microscope and depositing a single phosphorus atom in the hole.

On the plane, I read a couple of applications centered on nanoscience, where tiny tubes are etched into silicon wafers to get substances into the brain or outside of the brain, or even to have better access to single cells and to get substances in and out of cells.

The state is also investing more than $ 50 million to build 1366 Technologies, which makes silicon wafers used in solar panels, a 130,000 - square - foot facility at the Science and Technology Advanced Manufacturing Park outside Rochester.

It's also used in the semiconductor industry, where it measures the concentration of dopants in silicon wafers.

One option might be to integrate lasers with silicon circuitry on silicon wafers by means of porous glass layers that are activated by organic laser dyes.

A Massachusetts company that makes silicon wafers for solar power cells has decided not to build its first commercial factory in a Genesee County business park after all.

«For integrating graphene into advanced silicon microelectronics, large - area graphene free of wrinkles, tears and residues must be deposited on silicon wafers at low temperatures, which can not be achieved with conventional graphene synthesis techniques as they often require high temperatures,» said Jihyun Kim, the team leader and a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Korea University.

All 350 employees at the company, which manufactures polishing pads and slurries used to process silicon wafers andmicrochips, were invited to apply to take part in the year - long program, dubbed Leadership Intensive Training.

Building such systems represents a daunting task, as all established camera technologies rely on bulk glass lenses and detectors constructed on the planar surfaces of silicon wafers which can not be bent or flexed, much less formed into a hemispherical shape.

after the acquisition of Shell Solar in 2006 and the Hillsboro, Oregon, Komatsu silicon wafer production facility in 2007.

The company claims to have revolutionized the solar silicon wafer manufacturing process.

And it might be possible to use layers of porous silicon, or silica layers, on silicon wafers as hosts for some other optically active material.

SolarWorld USA was established after the acquisition of Shell Solar in 2006 and the Hillsboro, Oregon, Komatsu silicon wafer production facility in 2007.

A new process is born ARPA - E's funding enabled 1366 to build a prototype factory machine to produce ultra-thin silicon wafers directly from molten silicon.

The Great Carbon Hype Today, Intel and other manufacturers stamp out microchips from dinner plate — size silicon wafers.

His patent experience covers a broad range of technical disciplines, including food technology, agriscience, biotechnology, organic chemistry, fuel cell catalyst technology, rechargeable battery technology, silicon wafer technology, nuclear medical materials, polymer technology, solder alloys, and metal plating technology.

While the state government and Willamette University are two of the city's largest employers, private interests such as silicon wafer manufacturer, Sumitomo, and the Spirit Mountain Casino also have sizable workforces in the city.

More recently, Governor Andrew Cuomo was in the county to announce a $ 700 million investment to build a factory where silicon wafers will be manufactured for solar panels.

Moreover, the process required temperatures no higher than 120 °C, compared with many hundreds of degrees on a typical silicon wafer fabrication line, the team reports in ACS Nano.

The downside to these one - or two - micron - thick films is that they can only convert about 5 % to 10 % of incoming sunlight into electricity, versus up to 25 % for thicker silicon wafers.

Normally silicon wafers are cut from a larger piece of silicon.

If they can, Sargent says, «it would be very important» because perovskites could be grown on cheap silicon wafers, thus potentially creating a new class of cheap lasers for the telecommunications industry.

The first law says it takes energy to do work, even if that work is only to move electrons across silicon wafers.

Tens of thousands of these devices can be fabricated on a single, six - inch silicon wafer.

Writing in the journal Science, Brian Gergen of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and colleagues describe a new chemical sensor made from a so - called Schottky diodea silicon wafer coated with a metal film only a one hundred - millionth of a meter thick.

Most existing electronics, such as the circuit boards in everything from mobile devices to solar cells, are built on brittle silicon wafers.

In a paper published in Materials Horizons, UC San Diego researchers tested whether human subjects could distinguish — by dragging or tapping a finger across the surface — between smooth silicon wafers that differed only in their single topmost layer of molecules.

The contrasting topographies of the micropillars on Wang's silicon wafer create a similar phenomenon.

In order to be able to vary these forces, the researchers worked with polished, single - crystal silicon wafers.

That transistor was assembled on a rigid silicon wafer, however, and a more pliable substrate would be needed for a truly skinlike implementation.

Fabrication of ultralow reflectance polycrystalline silicon wafers by use of the developed technology.

«Tohoku University is the only university where you can experiment with 300 - millimeter silicon wafers and get results with spintronic components combined with ordinary semiconductor transistors,» Ohno says, referring to the industry - standard wafers used by major chip manufacturers.

In June, AU announced a deal to eventually buy a majority stake in M.Setek, a Japanese manufacturer of polysilicon and monocrystal silicon wafers, which are used in solar cells.

ASYS also supplies insert carriers to manufacturers of silicon wafers under the PR Hoffman brand, and provides lapping and polishing consumable products, as well as equipment used in various industries.

Norway's solar energy firm Renewable Energy Corp. (REC) builds crystalline silicon wafers and PV modules in Singapore and silicon materials in the U.S..

And what of the $ 350 million silicon wafer sourcing deal with Deutsche Solar announced in «Advent Solar Signs Polysilicon Wafer Agreement with Deutsche Solar AG»?

To make the spinach cell, Vanderbuilt researchers, «extracted PS1 from spinach into an aqueous solution and poured the mixture on the surface of a p - doped silicon wafer.

By using a particle accelerator and Float Zone Silicon, Rayton Solar plans to produce high - efficiency silicon wafers just 3 microns thick, slashing costs and waste.