The semiconductor industry is a major consumer of ion implantation machines. As the demand for semiconductors continues to grow, driven by advancements in technology such as 5G, artificial ...

Applied Materials Inc. has developed an ion implanter system, dubbed Swift, that it claims is the first and only industry system to provide the doping accuracy and extended operating range required ...

Titanium has a tendency to gall when in rubbing contact with itself and other surfaces. A number of techniques have been developed to engineer the titanium surface and overcome this problem: In the ...

Scientists have long sought to make semiconductors—vital components in computer chips and solar cells—that are also superconducting, thereby enhancing their speed and energy efficiency and enabling ...

Silicon carbide (SiC) is a wide-bandgap semiconductor material utilized in high-power, high-temperature, and high-frequency electronic devices. 4H-SiC substrates have distinct characteristics, ...

In the semiconductor industry, ion implantation process has expanded to a wide range of applications with doses and energies spanning several orders of magnitude. Ion implantation is a very ...

A Japanese-German research team has fabricated a TOPCon PV device by replacing common ion implantation techniques with plasma immersion ion implantation (PIII). The resulting device showed almost the ...

Specialist semiconductor and PV equipment supplier Intevac has said that it finally recognised into revenue on three of four ‘ENERGi’ solar ion implant tools, which had already been shipped to a PV ...