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Growing Oxides On Silicon On The Road To DIY Semiconductors
But when the task at hand is growing oxide layers on silicon chips in preparation for making your own integrated circuits, it turns out that the old Mark 1 eyeball is all you need. Alert readers ...
Return of the gigahertz wars: New Chinese transistor uses bismuth instead of silicon to potentially sock it to Intel and TSMC with 40% more speed
By way of example, TSMC's N3E node as used in the latest Apple chips has gate pitch of at minimum 45 nm and a metal pitch of ...
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Laser Doping His Way To Homemade Silicon Chips
The video below shows his two-step process, which first blasts the silicon oxide layer off the wafer before doping with the laser shining through a bath of phosphoric acid. The process is ...
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China’s new silicon-free chip beats Intel with 40% more speed and 10% less energy
A team of researchers at Peking University claims to have made a breakthrough in chip technology, potentially reshaping the ...
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New research shows degradation mechanisms in rear side of TOPCon solar cells
Researchers from UNSW and Longi have found that the silicon nitride layers used in TOPCon cell rear-side are particularly ...
New Breakthrough Transistor Tech Claims To Leave TSMC And Intel In The Dust
A major breakthrough at Peking University might have just found the first step beyond silicon for semiconductors.
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Scalable way to generate and control sound in silicon photonic chips
Sound tends to escape into the silicon oxide layer underneath the silicon structures, reducing efficiency. Previous solutions involved suspending the silicon structures but this approach was ...
New ultra-high-capacity chip could boost AI model training: report
VCG. A Chinese research team has developed a silicon photonic integrated high-order mode multiplexer chip, enabling ...