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School students in the Santa Clara Unified School District are being given an introduction to microscopy and silicon chip production in a programme created with the semiconductor manufacturer KLA
Advances in optical metrology equipment are helping the semiconductor industry increase productivity and reduce downtime, finds Keely Portway
ASML uses light to print tiny patterns onto silicon during the mass production of semiconductor chips. credit: ASML
Heriot-Watt University and ASML are partnering to develop new optical metrology light sources for chip manufacturing
Scientists at the University of California (UC), Berkeley have created a blue light-emitting diode (LED).
Hamamatsu Photonics will construct a new factory building at its Shingai Factory in Hamamatsu City, Japan, in order to cope with increasing sales demand for opto-semiconductors, x-ray image sensors and x-ray flat panel sensors.
Martin van den Brink has been awarded the Imec Lifetime of Innovation Award 2019
Scientists have developed a laser processing technique capable of reducing defects in optical materials
Lumotive, a technology start-up funded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, has introduced a disruptive beam-steering technology that it claims will significantly improve the performance, reliability and cost of lidar systems
Two new photonics clusters of excellence have been established in Hanover, Germany, following their selection for funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
MagnaChip Semiconductor has announced that it will hold a Foundry Technology Symposium at the Shangri-La in Shenzhen, China, on 27 November 2018
FormFactor's fast photonic wafer probers enable rapid tests through faster photonic alignment than previously possible. (Credit: FormFactor Inc)
Integration, automation, collaboration, customisation and designing for testing and manufacturability will help component and system makers lower costs and increase production, finds Andy Extance
Credit: THOR Biomedicine
Several different light-based treatments that have relied on lasers are now finding uses for LEDs, finds Andy Extance
In Electro Optics’ most recent webinar, career flexibility and interdisciplinary skills were highlighted as important traits in the future workforce
Carlos Lee talks to Maik Müller, chief executive officer at Nynomic, a holding company of nine photonics enterprises operating in the life science, clean tech and green tech sectors
