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2 unusual facts about Semiconductor


Chen Yung-Jui

During the ten years in industry, he worked on MOS/MNOS VLSI technology, wafer scale integration, Ultra-fast optical spectroscopy, nonlinear optics of semiconductors and organic polymers, integrated optics and optoelectronic devices.

Parsé Semiconductor Co.

The computer microprocessor called Aristo has been manufactured by Iranian researchers and engineers at Parsé Semiconductor with the support the company has received from the Modern Industries Center of the ministry of Industries of Iran.


A. C. Muthiah

Muthiah also served as the Managing Director of Standard Motors and is currently associated as Director with Tamilnadu Petroproducts Limited, First Leasing Company Ltd and SPEL Semiconductor Ltd.

ACLS

Axcelis Technologies, engages in the design, manufacture, and servicing of capital equipment for the semiconductor manufacturing industry

Advanced Technology Development Facility

ATDF is currently a subsidiary of SEMATECH, a non-profit consortium that performs basic research into semiconductor manufacturing.

Bruce Claflin

Bruce Claflin is the current Executive Chairman of the multinational semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices.

CIGS

Copper indium gallium selenide (CuInxGa(1-x)Se2), a semiconductor absorber material for solar cells

Cryptography Research

In 2009, Frost & Sullivan awarded the company the World Smart Card Technology Leadership of the Year Award, noting that the company is "one of the highest-volume and highest-value technology licensors in the semiconductor industry" and that "more than 4 billion security chips are produced under its licenses every year".

Cymer, Inc.

In October 2012, Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASML announced that it would acquire Cymer, as part of their EUV equipment strategy.

As of October 2012, it was announced that Cymer would be acquired by Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASML.

Cymmer

Cymer, Inc. a company making light sources for semiconductor fabrication

Duoplasmatron

Later development by Harold R. Kaufman resulted in the Kaufman Duoplasmatron which has been used for applications as diverse as semiconductor manufacture, and spacecraft propulsion.

EM Microelectronic-Marin

EM Microelectronic-Marin SA, based in Marin near Neuchâtel in Switzerland, is a developer and semiconductor manufacturer specialized in the design and production of ultra low power, low voltage integrated circuits for battery-operated and field-powered applications in consumer, automotive and industrial areas.

Free and open-source graphics device driver

Vivante is a fabless semiconductor company which licenses SIP cores.

Freescale ColdFire

The Freescale ColdFire is a microprocessor that derives from the Motorola 68000 family architecture, manufactured for embedded systems development by Freescale Semiconductor (formerly the semiconductor division of Motorola).

Hector Ruiz

Ruiz worked at Texas Instruments for six years and Motorola for 22 years, rising to become president of Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector before being recruited in 2000 by AMD founder Jerry Sanders to serve as AMD's president and chief operating officer, and to become heir apparent to lead the company upon Sanders' retirement.

Herbert Mataré

Later Mataré taught physics and mathematics in Wabern near Kassel and gave lectures at the Aachen university, and he was invited to build a semiconductor diode plant for Compagnie des Freins & Signaux Westinghouse in Aulnay-sous-Bois near Paris.

IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal

Nishizawa was professor, director of two research institutes and the 17th president at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, and contributed important innovations in the fields of optical communications and semiconductor devices, such as laser and PIN diodes and static induction thyristors for electric power applications.

IMP-16

The IMP-16 was later superseded by National Semiconductor's PACE and INS8900 single-chip 16-bit microprocessors, which had a similar architecture but were not binary compatible.

James LeMunyon

He was an executive at two technology companies: Sterling Semiconductor, which he co-founded and which later was acquired by Dow Corning; and HexaTech.

Kanegasaki, Iwate

The industrial park has several different manufacturing facilities, such as a Toyota plant that produces Lexus automobiles (Kanto Jidousha) and a Fujitsu semiconductor facility.

LonWorks

Since then, ANSI/CEA-709.1 has been accepted as the basis for IEEE 1473-L (in-train controls), AAR electro-pneumatic braking systems for freight trains, IFSF (European petrol station control), SEMI (semiconductor equipment manufacturing), and in 2005 as EN 14908 (European building automation standard).

Mario A. Rivas

Rivas managed the wireless communications business of Philips Semiconductor as well as its foundry operations, purchasing, and assembly and test with headquarters in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

MEMC

MEMC Electronic Materials, a United States manufacturer of silicon wafers for the semiconductor industry

Metal gate

A metal gate, in the context of a lateral Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor MOS stack, is just that—the gate material is made from a metal.

Metal-induced gap states

Volker Heine was one of the first to respect the length of the tail end of metal electron states extending into the semiconductor's energy gap.

Monte Carlo methods for electron transport

The Monte Carlo method for electron transport is a semiclassical Monte Carlo(MC) approach of modeling semiconductor transport.

Naser Qureshi

He did his PhD in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara (Thesis: Therahertz dynamics in semiconductor heterostructures); A.B. in Physics from Princeton University (Thesis: High-Tc superconductivity); and a post-doctorate in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz (Ultrafast magnetism).

PFET

p-channel MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor)

Photronics Inc

Ltd., Freescale Semiconductor, Global Foundries, HannStar Display Corp., IM Flash Technologies, Inotera Memories, Jenoptik AG, LG Electronics, Magnachip Semiconductor, Micron Technology, Nanya Technology Corporation, National Semiconductor Corporation, Novatek Microelectronics Corp., ON Semiconductor Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., ST Microelectronics, Texas Instruments, United Microelectronics Corp.

Semiconductor International

Regular news and feature articles covered topics including Wafer Processing, Lithography, Yield Management, Metrology, Semiconductor Packaging and Wafer Cleaning.

Semiconductor luminescence equations

This description established the first step toward semiconductor quantum optics because the SLEs simultaneously includes the quantized light–matter interaction and the Coulomb-interaction coupling among electronic excitations within a semiconductor.

Silicon-controlled rectifier

A silicon-controlled rectifier (or semiconductor-controlled rectifier) is a four-layer solid state current controlling device.

Solar cell research

This transparent, UV-absorbing system was achieved by using an organic-inorganic heterostructure made of the p-type semiconducting polymer PEDOT:PSS film deposited on a Nb-doped strontium titanate substrate.

Sound amplification by stimulated emission of radiation

Sound amplification according to the experiment taken in the University of Nottingham could be based on an induced cascade of electrons in semiconductor superlattices.

Stream processor

Stream Processors, Inc - a semiconductor company that has commercialized stream processing for DSP applications.

T. J. Rodgers

While pursuing his Ph.D. degree, Rodgers invented the VMOS process technology, which he later licensed to American Microsystems, Inc. He founded Cypress Semiconductor in 1982.

Technology CAD

S. Selberherr, W. Fichtner, and H.W. Potzl, "Minimos - A program package to facilitate MOS device design and analysis," Proceedings NASECODE I (Numerical Analysis of Semiconductor Devices), pp.

Thomson-CSF

The semiconductor businesses of Thomson CSF was merged with Finmeccanica.

Tower Semiconductor

Tower Semiconductor company started out as a manufacturing plant for National Semiconductor in Migdal Haemek, Israel.

USB drive

USB flash drive, USB-connected computer storage using semiconductor non-volatile random-access memory

UTAC

The UTAC Group is a provider of test and assembly services for a wide range of semiconductor devices based in Singapore.

Utkan Demirci

His research interests involve biological applications of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) and acoustics, especially: microfluidics for low cost CD4 counts for HIV in resource-limited-settings for global health problems; acoustic picoliter droplets for cell-by-cell 3D tissue generation, and semiconductor applications; capacitive micromachined ultrasonic arrays (CMUTS) for medical imaging applications.

Veldhoven

Veldhoven is home to the headquarters of the manufacturer of high-tech (semiconductor) lithography equipment ASML.

Wafer fabrication

A foundry is a fab at which semiconductor chips or wafers are fabricated to order for third party companies that sell the chip, such as fabs owned by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC).

Weitek

By 1995 the company was almost dead, and in late 1996 the remains were purchased by Rockwell's Semiconductor Systems and quickly disappeared.

Zarlink

In 2002 Zarlink sold its foundry in Bromont, Quebec, Canada to Dalsa Corporation, and its wafer fabrication facility in Plymouth, UK to X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries AG.


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