From quartz sand to silicon wafers, the manufacturing process is critical for achieving the purity and quality needed for advanced semiconductor applications.

Semiconductor manufacturer Xanoptix (Merrimack, NH) has developed a wafer-scale process for the 3-D stacking of silicon with either GaAs or InP to make compound semiconductors. The company's Hybrid ...

Major processes in semiconductor wafer fabrication: 1) wafer preparation, 2) pattern transfer, 3) doping, 4) deposition, 5) etching, and 6) packaging. The process of creating semiconductors can be ...

At the same time, the semiconductor industry has been moving toward 200 mm (8-inch) wafers to improve manufacturing ...