Illumina’s revenue was flat for the third quarter as the sequencing giant continues to deal with headwinds from a China sales ban. The $1.08 billion it brought in for the third quarter was, however, ...

Prices may be falling, and competition is fierce, but the silicon wafer industry is still booming as China strives to build an independent supply chain for advanced semiconductors. Against this ...

Data centers squander vast amounts of electricity, most of it as heat. The physical properties of diamond offer a potential solution, researchers say. Data centers squander vast amounts of electricity ...

A new technical paper titled “Heterogeneously integrated lithium tantalate-on-silicon nitride modulators for high-speed communications” was published by researchers at EPFL, Chinese Academy of ...

The price of key solar panel components in China surged the most in two years, driven by production cuts and a broader government push to address industry overcapacity. Wafer prices rose 22% in the ...

TAIPEI, May 16 (Reuters) - Taiwanese silicon wafer manufacturer GlobalWafers (6488.TWO), opens new tab said on Friday it would invest an additional $4 billion in the United States to meet growing ...

Single-layer silicon metasurface achieves ultralow reflection, setting new standard for antireflective coatings in solar cells. Metasurface-based silicon antireflective coating. Click for info.

A research group at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) has shown that in situ gettering during the application of asymmetric configuration of n-type and p-type ...

NORTH READING, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Teradyne, a leading provider of automated test equipment, has partnered with ficonTEC, a global leader in production solutions for photonics assembly and test, ...

The shift from planar SoCs to 3D-ICs and advanced packages requires much thinner wafers in order to improve performance and reduce power, reducing the distance that signals need to travel and the ...