the same crystal, they form a semiconductor junction. The term "semiconductors" is sometimes used to refer to semiconductor devices such as microchips and...

The semiconductor industry is the aggregate of companies engaged in the design and fabrication of semiconductors and semiconductor devices, such as transistors...

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. was an American semiconductor manufacturer. It was created by the divestiture of the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola...

Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. was an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1957 as a division...

A semiconductor device is an electronic component that relies on the electronic properties of a semiconductor material (primarily silicon, germanium,...

In electronics, the metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, MOS FET, or MOS transistor) is a type of field-effect transistor...

Tower Semiconductor Ltd.(Nasdaq/TASE: TSEM) is an Israeli company that manufactures integrated circuits using specialty process technologies, including...

Semiconductor device fabrication is the process used to manufacture semiconductor devices, typically integrated circuits (ICs) such as microprocessors...

Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS /ˈsiːmɒs/ SEE-moss) is a type of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) fabrication process...

Look up semiconductor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity due to electron flow intermediate...

NXP Semiconductors N.V. is a Dutch semiconductor manufacturing and design company with headquarters in Eindhoven, Netherlands. It is the third largest...

Semiconductor memory is a digital electronic semiconductor device used for digital data storage, such as computer memory. It typically refers to devices...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (Chinese: 台灣積體電路製造股份有限公司; Taiwan Semiconductor or TSMC, stylised in all lowercase) is a Taiwanese multinational...

An extrinsic semiconductor is one that has been doped; during manufacture of the semiconductor crystal a trace element or chemical called a doping agent...

National Semiconductor Corporation was an American semiconductor manufacturer, which specialized in analog devices and subsystems, formerly headquartered...

In the microelectronics industry, a semiconductor fabrication plant, also called a fab or a foundry, is a factory where integrated circuits (ICs) are...

electronic component that uses a semiconductor to emit light when current flows through it. Electrons in the semiconductor recombine with electron holes...

phones, satellite communicators, pagers, as well as cable modems and semiconductors. After having lost $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009, Motorola was split...

The Chinese semiconductor industry, including integrated circuit design and manufacturing, forms a major part of mainland China's electric technology...

Inc. (Korean: 에스케이하이닉스 주식회사), stylized SK hynix, is a South Korean semiconductor company that manufactures dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips...

Hemlock Semiconductor (HSC) is the largest producer of hyper-pure polysilicon headquartered in the United States. Polycrystalline silicon, also called...

Semiconductor fabrication plants are factories where integrated circuits (ICs), also known as microchips, are manufactured. They are either operated by...

The PHLX Semiconductor Sector (SOX) is a capitalization-weighted index comprising the 30 largest U.S.-traded companies (not necessarily U.S. companies)...

broad range of electronics. The pandemic's impact on the manufacture of semiconductors in South Korea and Taiwan was cited as a cause for the shortage, with...

The Japanese semiconductor industry once dominated the world's semiconductor market, with its revenue share reaching 50% in the 1980s. Various explanations...

ASML Holding N.V. (originally stands for Advanced Semiconductor Materials Lithography) is a Dutch multinational corporation that develops and manufactures...

Nordic Semiconductor ASA (formerly known as Nordic VLSI) was founded in 1983 and is a Norwegian fabless technology company with its headquarters in Trondheim...

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation was an American semiconductor design and manufacturing company. It offered NOR flash memories, F-RAM and SRAM Traveo...

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation is an American semiconductor company specializing in the design and manufacturing of low-power field-programmable gate...

Taiwan Semiconductor may refer to: Taiwan Semiconductor Company Limited (TSC) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC) This disambiguation...

In semiconductor production, doping is the intentional introduction of impurities into an intrinsic (undoped) semiconductor for the purpose of modulating...

electrical engineer who has been the president and CEO of the American semiconductor company AMD since 2014. Su was born in Taiwan and immigrated to the...

observation is named after Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel and former Chief Executive Officer of the latter, who in 1965...

ON Semiconductor Corporation (stylized and doing business as onsemi) is an American semiconductor supplier company, based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Products...

globally. "Seoul Semiconductor". Seoul Semiconductor. 31 December 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2017. "About Seoul Semiconductor". Seoul Semiconductor. 4 July 2017...

billion in new funding to boost domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors in the United States, for which it appropriates $52.7 billion. The act...

resistance in the other. A semiconductor diode, the most commonly used type today, is a crystalline piece of semiconductor material with a p–n junction...

Aureal Semiconductor Inc. was an American electronics manufacturer, best known throughout the mid-late 1990s for their PC sound card technologies including...

A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power. It is one of the basic building blocks of modern electronics...

An intrinsic semiconductor, also called a pure semiconductor, undoped semiconductor or i-type semiconductor, is a semiconductor without any significant...

Semiconductor Solutions Group". Sony Semiconductor Solutions Group. Retrieved 2022-05-14. "Microdisplay：Microdisplay｜Products｜Sony Semiconductor Solutions...

in 2025 due to supply constraints and rapid price escalation in the semiconductor memory market, particularly affecting DRAM and NAND flash integrated...

The main driving force behind the advancement of electronics is the semiconductor industry, which continually produces ever-more sophisticated electronic...

electronics, a wafer (also called a slice or substrate) is a thin slice of semiconductor, such as a crystalline silicon (c-Si, silicium), used for the fabrication...

control the current through a semiconductor. It comes in two types: junction FET (JFET) and metal–oxide–semiconductor FET (MOSFET). FETs have three terminals:...

Reliability of a semiconductor device is the ability of the device to perform its intended function during the life of the device in the field. There...

Taiwan Semiconductor Company Limited (TSC or Taiwan Semi; Chinese: 台灣半導體股份有限公司; pinyin: Táiwān Bàn Dǎo Tǐ Gǔ-fèn Yǒu-xiàn Gōng Sī) is a Taiwanese semiconductor...

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is a partially state-owned publicly listed Chinese pure-play semiconductor foundry company...

Alliance Semiconductor Corporation was an American semiconductor company active from 1985 to 2006 and originally based in San Jose, California. The company...

pSemi (formerly Peregrine Semiconductor), is a San Diego–based manufacturer of high-performance RF (radio frequency) CMOS integrated circuits. A Murata...

physics, a metal–semiconductor (M–S) junction is a type of electrical junction in which a metal comes in close contact with a semiconductor material. It is...

A semiconductor package is a metal, plastic, glass, or ceramic casing containing one or more discrete semiconductor devices or integrated circuits. Individual...

Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. was a supplier of ion implantation equipment used in the fabrication of semiconductor chips. Varian Semiconductor...

Labs, Fairchild Semiconductor, and the semiconductor division of Rockwell International, and was also the CEO of National Semiconductor and Apple Computer...

degenerate semiconductor is a semiconductor with such a high level of doping that the material starts to act more like a metal than a semiconductor. Unlike...

SJ Semiconductor (SJ Semi) is a MEOL (Middle-End of Line) foundry founded in 2014, from Jiangyin, Jiangsu province, China, involved in 12-inch bumping...

first semiconductor foundry, and is regarded as the founder of Taiwan's semiconductor industry. He pioneered the foundry model of semiconductor fabrication...

Organic semiconductors are solids whose building blocks are pi-bonded molecules or polymers made up by carbon and hydrogen atoms and—at times—heteroatoms...

hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing their fabrication (or fab) to a specialized manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry. These foundries...

Amorphous semiconductor may refer to : Amorphous silicon (e.g. for thin-film PV) glassy forms of Arsenic sulfide glassy selenium glassy tellurium glassy...

Zetex Semiconductors plc is a UK-based manufacturer of discrete semiconductor devices such as diodes and transistors. Originally a subsidiary of Ferranti...

A transistor is a semiconductor device with at least three terminals for connection to an electric circuit. In the common case, the third terminal controls...

Dolphin Semiconductor is a French-based semiconductor company specializing in low-power mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) solutions. The company...

takes the form of integrated circuit (IC) chips with MOS (metal–oxide–semiconductor) memory cells. RAM is normally associated with volatile types of memory...

Ingenic Semiconductor is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company based in Beijing, China founded in 2005. They purchased licenses for the MIPS architecture...

Dallas Semiconductor, founded in 1984, acquired by Maxim Integrated in 2002, then acquired by Analog Devices in 2021, was a company that designed and...

China's (PRC) ability to access and develop advanced computing and semiconductor manufacturing items. The new export controls reflect the United States'...

semiconductors (also known as WBG semiconductors or WBGSs) are semiconductor materials which have a larger band gap than conventional semiconductors....

The Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing, Inc. (JASM) is a joint-venture, which is majority-owned by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)...

Teridian Semiconductor Corporation (TSC) is a brand of mixed-signal ICs, primarily for energy-management markets that is manufactured by Silergy. It was...

the semiconductor industry has continued to develop since the 1980s with efforts from both public and private sectors in expanding semiconductor infrastructures...

The semiconductor industry, including Integrated Circuit (IC) manufacturing, design, and packaging, forms a major part of Taiwan's IT industry. Due to...

Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, later known as Shockley Transistor Corporation, was a pioneering semiconductor developer founded by William Shockley...

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) is a trade association and lobbying group founded in 1977 that represents the United States semiconductor industry...

list of countries by semiconductor exports, using the Harmonised System code 8541. This includes diodes, transistors, semiconductor−based transducers, photosensitive...

are many semiconductor scale examples for various metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, or MOS transistor) semiconductor manufacturing...

These components are fabricated onto a thin, flat piece ("chip") of semiconductor material, most commonly silicon. Integrated circuits are integral to...

A p–n junction is a combination of two types of semiconductor materials, p-type and n-type, in a single crystal. The "n" (negative) side contains freely-moving...

Dynex Semiconductor based in Lincoln, England, United Kingdom is a global supplier of products and services specialising in the field of power semiconductor...

Semiconductor materials are nominally small band gap insulators. The defining property of a semiconductor material is that it can be compromised by doping...

This is a list of semiconductor journals which includes peer-reviewed scientific and engineering journals focused on semiconductor devices, materials,...

Pragmatic Semiconductor is a UK-based flexible microchip maker, with its headquarters located in Cambridge, England. Its manufacturing facility, or foundry...

Powerex Inc., is a Pennsylvania-based company specializing in high power semiconductor applications. Powerex supports many markets, including transportation...

This is a list of semiconductor companies in the United States including notable firms engaged in the design, fabrication, assembly, testing, or supply...

p-channel metal–oxide–semiconductor, is a family of digital circuits based on p-channel, enhancement mode metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors...

In electronic design, a semiconductor intellectual property core (SIP core), IP core or IP block is a reusable unit of logic, cell, or integrated circuit...

metal–nitride–oxide–semiconductor or metal–nitride–oxide–silicon (MNOS) transistor is a type of MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor)...

Dialog Semiconductor Plc is an Anglo-German semiconductor-based system designer and manufacturer. The company is headquartered in the United Kingdom in...

Brite Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor company founded in 2008 to develop custom ASIC designs. The company's top supplier and second largest shareholder...

In ionizing radiation detection physics, a semiconductor detector is a device that uses a semiconductor (usually silicon or germanium) to measure the effect...

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (Chinese: 日月光半導體製造股份有限公司), previously known as ASE Group (Chinese: 日月光集團), is a leading provider of independent...

Orbit Semiconductor, Inc. manufactures semiconductors devices. The company designs electronic systems for application in the medical, telecommunication...

Volterra Semiconductor, commonly known as Volterra, was acquired by Maxim Integrated in October 2013. Volterra was a fabless semiconductor company that...

penetrate only a very short distance into the material. However, in a semiconductor the lower density of electrons (and possibly holes) that can respond...

Electronics Devices, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Samsung Corning and Samsung Semiconductor & Telecommunications, and opened the facility in Suwon. Its first product...

short for Metal Oxide Semiconductor), later known as CSG (Commodore Semiconductor Group) and GMT Microelectronics, was a semiconductor design and fabrication...

depends on the load's characteristics. Semiconductor devices may use a fast or ultrafast fuse as semiconductor devices heat rapidly when excess current...

Jazz Semiconductor is a semiconductor wafer foundry that is a wholly owned United States subsidiary of Israel-based Tower Semiconductor. Its customers...

that supplies equipment, services and software for the manufacture of semiconductor (integrated circuit) chips for electronics, flat panel displays for...

Hua Hong Semiconductor Limited is a publicly listed Chinese pure-play semiconductor foundry company based in Shanghai, established in 1996 as part of China's...

designer, developer, manufacturer, and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Broadcom's product offerings serve...

Elmos Semiconductor SE is a German manufacturer of semiconductor products headquartered in Dortmund, Germany. Elmos supplies automotive application-specific...

in semiconductor manufacturing occupations are a major issue of occupational hygiene due to the chemical hazards required to produce semiconductors in...

Semiconductor (also Semiconductor Films) is UK artist duo Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. They have been working together for over twenty years producing...

Vitesse Semiconductor was a fabless American semiconductor company based in Camarillo, California, which developed high-performance Ethernet integrated...

incentives promoted growth in the Indian electronics industry. The semiconductor industry, which is its most important and resource-intensive sector...

technique called virtual memory. Modern computer memory is implemented as semiconductor memory, where data is stored within memory cells built from MOS transistors...

Magnum Semiconductor Inc. was a video compression technology company headquartered in Milpitas, California, and with an engineering branch at Waterloo...

beginning with electromechanicals (1930s), thermionic valves (1930s), semiconductor transistors (1940s), MOSFET (MOS transistors 1950s), and finally monolithic...

A power semiconductor device is a semiconductor device used as a switch or rectifier in power electronics (for example in a switched-mode power supply)...

(intellectual property). Synopsys supplies tools and services to the semiconductor design and manufacturing industry. Products include tools for implementation...

both ferromagnets and semiconductors at room temperature? More unsolved problems in physics Magnetic semiconductors are semiconductor materials that exhibit...

Rabbit Semiconductor is an American company which designs and sells the Rabbit family of microcontrollers and microcontroller modules. For development...

CISC Semiconductor GmbH, established in 1999, is a company with worldwide business operations providing customer-specific engineering services together...

engineer, physicist, cryptographer, inventor and entrepreneur. He was a semiconductor pioneer who made important contributions to modern electronics. He is...

The 1986 U.S.–Japan Semiconductor Agreement was a joint agreement signed on September 2, 1986, between the U.S. and Japan. The agreement aimed to resolve...

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation was a company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was acquired by Integrated Device Technology in 2009. Which...

is a tetravalent non-metal (sometimes considered as a metalloid) and semiconductor. It is a member of group 14 in the periodic table: carbon is above it;...

Processor | Samsung Semiconductor Global". Samsung Semiconductor. Retrieved 6 July 2026. "Exynos 1480 | Mobile Processor". Samsung Semiconductor Global. Retrieved...

business and consumer markets. Intel was the world's third-largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue in 2024 and has been included in the Fortune...

ASM International N.V. (with ASM standing for Advanced Semiconductor Materials) is a Dutch multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, sells...

microelectronics engineering and manufacturing business model consisting of a semiconductor fabrication plant, or foundry, and an integrated circuit design operation...

Ceva, Inc. is a publicly traded semiconductor and software intellectual property (IP) company listed on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol CEVA. Headquartered...

In semiconductor physics, an acceptor is a dopant atom that when substituted into a semiconductor lattice forms a p-type region. When silicon (Si), having...

(metal–semiconductor field-effect transistor) is a field-effect transistor semiconductor device similar to a JFET with a Schottky (metal–semiconductor) junction...

GlobalFoundries Inc. is a multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company domiciled in the Cayman Islands and headquartered in Malta...

BE Semiconductor Industries N.V., commonly known as Besi, is a Dutch multinational company that designs and manufactures semiconductor equipment. Besi...

Tata Semiconductor Assembly and Test Pvt. Ltd. (TSAT) is India's first indigenous and greenfield semiconductor assembly and test facility factory in Jagiroad...

include research and development (R&D) in the field of semiconductor technology. Semiconductors manufactured by SCL have been used in the Mars Orbiter...

Altair Semiconductor, formerly known as Sony Semiconductor Israel, is an Israeli developer of high performance single-mode Long Term Evolution (LTE) chipsets...

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), commonly known as SRC, is a high-technology research consortium active in the semiconductor industry. It is...

appointed 2019 chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association, the primary advocacy organization for the U.S. semiconductor industry. Mehrotra has received...

(commonly referred to as ST or STMicro) is a European multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is the largest of such...

Crystal Semiconductor Corporation was an American computer company based in Austin, Texas, and active from 1984 to the early 2000s. Founded by Michael...

metal–semiconductor junction is formed between a metal and a semiconductor, creating a Schottky barrier (instead of a semiconductor–semiconductor junction...

In semiconductor physics, a donor is a dopant atom that, when added to a semiconductor, can form a n-type region. For example, when silicon (Si), having...

Semiconductor consolidation is the trend of semiconductor companies collaborating in order to come to a practical synergy with the goal of being able...

legislative package to encourage semiconductor production in the European Union (EU). It was adopted in 2023. The European Semiconductor Board (ESB) is its primary...

Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (PSMC) is a Taiwanese company that manufactures and sells semiconductor products, in particular memory...

Semiconductor International (ISSN 0163-3767) was a trade publication and web site owned by Reed Business Information serving the information needs of...

requirement for the realization of a semiconductor laser because it describes the optical amplification in the semiconductor material. This optical gain is...

the surface of a semiconductor due to the presence of a metal on the surface. They have energies that fall within the semiconductor's bandgap thus are...

diode (LD, also injection laser diode or ILD or semiconductor laser or diode laser) is a semiconductor device similar to a light-emitting diode in which...

direct-current (DC) current is generated by sliding a P-type semiconductor on top of a N-type semiconductor or a metal surface without the illumination of photons...

circuit that has both analog circuits and digital circuits on a single semiconductor die. Their usage has grown dramatically with the increased use of cell...

self-sufficiency in the semiconductor industry (as part of the Made in China 2025 plan) by investing in domestic semiconductor companies. It has played...

Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH of Regensburg, Germany, was a wholly owned subsidiary of Osram GmbH, which was the world's second largest manufacturer of...

infrastructure systems, elevators and escalators, electronic components, semiconductors, hard disk drives, printers, batteries, lighting, as well as IT solutions...

The JEDEC memory standards are the specifications for semiconductor memory circuits and similar storage devices promulgated by the Joint Electron Device...

batches on a single wafer of electronic-grade silicon (EGS) or other semiconductor (such as GaAs) through processes such as photolithography. The wafer...

copper and selenium oxide plates, semiconductor diodes, silicon-controlled rectifiers and other silicon-based semiconductor switches. Historically, even synchronous...

Quadric GPNPU processors Cadence Design Systems Cosmic Circuits Dolphin Semiconductor S3 Group Synopsys Cadence Design Systems CEVA, Inc. IMEC On2 Technologies...

Gaisha) is a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo. The name "Renesas" is a contraction of "Renaissance Semiconductor for Advanced Solutions...

Annapurna Labs is Amazon's semiconductor division building Amazon's Nitro, Graviton, and Trainium chips product lines. Annapurna was established in Israel...

A chip shortage, also referred to as semiconductor shortage or chip famine, is a phenomenon in the integrated circuit (chip) industry when demand for...

take on the properties of both the valence and conduction bands. In semiconductors and insulators the two bands are separated by a band gap, while in conductors...

Electronic products today are primarily assembled from metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) transistors and integrated circuits, the latter principally by...

They provide equipment, materials and services for the manufacture of semiconductors, photovoltaic panels, LED and flat panel displays, micro-electromechanical...

reach a consensus. › Valens Semiconductor (Valens) is an Israeli fabless manufacturing company providing semiconductors for the automotive and audio-video...

Terafab is a planned semiconductor fabrication plant jointly developed by Tesla, SpaceX, and Intel. The venture was announced by Elon Musk on March 21...

list of system-on-a-chip suppliers. Actions Semiconductor Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) Alchip Allwinner Technology...

transfer. Spintronic systems are most often realised in dilute magnetic semiconductors (DMS) and Heusler alloys and are of particular interest in the field...

headquartered in Santa Clara, California, which develops and produces semiconductors and related technology. Founded in 1995, the company had close to 7...

Semiconductor lasers or laser diodes play an important part in our everyday lives by providing cheap and compact-size lasers. They consist of complex...

In semiconductor manufacturing, the 2 nm process is the MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) die shrink after the 3 nm process node...

focused on securing supply chains for advanced technologies such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI) and rare earth elements. The initiative...

Integrated circuit design, semiconductor design, chip design or IC design, is a sub-field of electronics engineering, encompassing the particular logic...

current transport in a piece of semiconductor. In n-type semiconductors they are electrons, while in p-type semiconductors they are holes. The less abundant...

Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, Inc. (CSM), was a Singaporean semiconductor company. Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing was founded in 1987...

Council (JEDEC) Solid State Technology Association is a consortium of the semiconductor industry headquartered in Arlington, United States. It has over 300...

Ion semiconductor sequencing is a method of DNA sequencing based on the detection of hydrogen ions that are released during the polymerization of DNA...

integrate a variety of standard electronic components in a monolithic semiconductor crystal in 1952. A year later, Harwick Johnson filed a patent for a...

NMOS or nMOS logic (from N-type metal–oxide–semiconductor) uses n-type (-) MOSFETs (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors) to implement logic...

14°30′02″E / 52.3223°N 14.5006°E / 52.3223; 14.5006 Communicant Semiconductor Technologies AG was a company based in Frankfurt (Oder), Eastern Germany...

A two-dimensional semiconductor (also known as 2D semiconductor) is a type of natural semiconductor with thicknesses on the atomic scale. Geim and Novoselov...

leaves a net positive charge at the hole's location. Holes in a metal or semiconductor crystal lattice can move through the lattice as electrons can, and act...

This article lists rankings of semiconductor equipment suppliers by sales (in US-Dollar). An IC equipment supplier's revenue is classified as sales of...

largest semiconductor company between 2017 and 2018. Samsung Semiconductor division manufactures various semiconductor devices, including semiconductor nodes...

handles semiconductor manufacturing in-house, compared to a fabless semiconductor company, which outsources production to a third-party semiconductor fabrication...

DOD spy satellites. The firm was later known for its manufacture of semiconductors. Fairchild Camera and Instrument was incorporated in Delaware in 1927...

Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (/ˈtʃaʊʃɪn/, Chinese: 兆芯; pinyin: Zhàoxīn [ʈʂâu ɕín]) is a fabless semiconductor company, created in 2013 as a...

for enclosure within a single package 3D integration – an advanced semiconductor technology that incorporates multiple layers of circuitry into a single...

Technologies AG is a German company which designs and manufactures semiconductor devices. It provides parts for automotive, power and security systems...

containment for several power components, usually power semiconductor devices. These power semiconductors (so-called dies) are typically soldered or sintered...

Schottky, is a potential energy barrier for electrons formed at a metal–semiconductor junction. Schottky barriers have rectifying characteristics, suitable...

Generale Semiconduttori, English: General Semiconductor Company) was an Italian manufacturer of semiconductor devices, most notably diodes, transistors...

valence band and the bottom of the conduction band in insulators and semiconductors. It is the energy required to promote an electron from the valence band...

Micron Technology, Inc. is an American multinational semiconductor company that manufactures computer memory and computer data storage products, including...

overall yield for that set of devices. The first mention of variation in semiconductors was by William Shockley, the co-inventor of the transistor, in his 1961...

Y Z 3dfx Interactive (acquired by Nvidia in 2002) Achronix Actions Semiconductor Adapteva Agere Systems (now part of LSI Logic formerly part of Lucent...

advanced chips. Taiwan's rise in the key semiconductor industry was largely attributed to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and United Microelectronic...

subsidiaries, it is engaged in various businesses, including manufacture of AI semiconductors, flash memory, deep tech investment and miscellaneous information technology...

Rohm Semiconductor (ローム株式会社, Rōmu Kabushiki-gaisha) (styled as ROHM) is a Japanese electronic parts manufacturer based in Kyoto, Japan. Rohm was incorporated...

Corporation (Japanese: Rapidus株式会社, Hepburn: Rapidus Kabushiki-gaisha) is a semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Rapidus was established...

Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics is an informative but tongue-in-cheek website designed to be instructive in semiconductor physics. Centered on...

Narrow-gap semiconductors are semiconducting materials with a magnitude of bandgap that is smaller than 0.7 eV, which corresponds to an infrared absorption...

diode with a wide, undoped intrinsic semiconductor region between a p-type semiconductor and an n-type semiconductor region. The p-type and n-type regions...

Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Chinese: 瑞昱半導體股份有限公司; pinyin: Ruìyù Bàndǎotǐ Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī) is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company situated in...

equipment is equipment that is used in the process of semiconductor fabrication to process raw semiconductor wafers into finished chips, such as integrated circuits...

integrated circuit (metal oxide semiconductor) chips were developed and then widely adopted, enabling complex semiconductor and telecommunications technologies...

processed into pet food or animal feed, or composted into fertilizer. Semiconductor manufacturing is an inherently variable process, sometimes achieving...

to: Open-source appropriate technology Outsource semiconductor assembly and test, see Semiconductor consolidation Osat, in Bosnia and Herzegovina One...

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. is an American manufacturer of discrete semiconductors and passive electronic components founded by Polish-born businessman...

Corporation and SanDisk Corporation) is an American multinational computer semiconductor company based in Milpitas, California. Founded in 1988, it designs and...

communications, optical disc drives, laser printers, barcode scanners, semiconductor chip manufacturing (photolithography, etching), laser surgery and skin...

Amkor Technology, Inc. is a semiconductor product packaging and test services provider. The company has been headquartered in Arizona since 2005, when...

Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (also known by the acronym ICPS) is a biennial conference series on semiconductor science. This biennial meeting...

CA. It is one of several semiconductor companies formed in the '60s and '70s by former employees of Fairchild Semiconductor. Intel, another one of these...

applications like radar and wireless communication. Semiconductor ATE, named for testing semiconductor devices, can test a wide range of electronic devices...

Semiconductor device modeling creates models for the behavior of semiconductor devices based on fundamental physics, such as the doping profiles of the...

II-VI semiconductor compounds are compounds composed of a metal from either group 2 or 12 of the periodic table (the alkaline earth metals and group 12...

Quantum dots (QDs) or semiconductor nanocrystals are semiconductor particles a few nanometres in size with optical and electronic properties that differ...

Semiconductor process simulation is the modeling of the fabrication of semiconductor devices such as transistors. It is a branch of electronic design automation...

an electrically isolated semiconductor photodetector. On August 8, 1962, Biard and Pittman filed a patent titled "Semiconductor Radiant Diode" based on...

or violet. Blue lasers can be produced by: direct, inorganic diode semiconductor lasers based on quantum wells of gallium(III) nitride at 380-417nm or...

The semiconductor luminescence equations (SLEs) describe luminescence of semiconductors resulting from spontaneous recombination of electronic excitations...

electronics company, began producing semiconductors in 1974 and has grown to become one of the largest semiconductor fabricators in the world. In the decades...

major provider of materials for the semiconductor manufacturing and electronics industries. The company's Semiconductor Technologies segment (56% of 2025...

intrinsic or extrinsic. An intrinsic semiconductor has its own charge carriers and is not an efficient semiconductor (such as silicon is). In intrinsic...

and Sproul on hard PVD coatings. If the superlattice is made of two semiconductor materials with different band gaps, each quantum well sets up new selection...

UMC is best known for its semiconductor foundry business, manufacturing integrated circuits wafers for fabless semiconductor companies. In this role, UMC...

TriQuint Semiconductor was a semiconductor company that designed, manufactured, and supplied high-performance RF modules, components and foundry services...

the photon is higher than the band gap energy of the semiconductor. This property of semiconductor materials has been successfully used to convert solar...

Semiconductor characterization techniques are used to characterize a semiconductor material or device (p–n junction, Schottky diode, solar cell, etc.)...

physical, chemical, or electrical properties. Ion implantation is used in semiconductor device fabrication and in metal finishing, as well as in materials science...

supplier of wafer-fabrication equipment and related services to the semiconductor industry. Its products are used primarily in front-end wafer processing...

Helix Semiconductors, formerly Semitrex, is an Irvine, California-based fabless semiconductor company that designs chips for improved power management...

specializing in semiconductor devices, including MOSFETs and CMOS image sensors. She is a researcher at the Toshiba Center for Semiconductor Research and...

School of Law and Diplomacy. It chronicles the transformation of the semiconductor into an essential component of contemporary life. Miller describes in...

films. It is a process for growing crystalline layers to create complex semiconductor multilayer structures. In contrast to molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE),...

professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering and serves as Director of Semiconductor Education. Raghunathan is known for his work on low-power embedded systems...

physics, Kondo insulators (also referred as Kondo semiconductors and heavy fermion semiconductors) are understood as materials with strongly correlated...

Technologies, which itself was acquired in 2020 by Dialog Semiconductor. In 2021, Dialog Semiconductor became a subsidiary of Renesas Electronics. Echelon was...

Immedia Semiconductor LLC, doing business as Blink, is an American home automation company which produces home security cameras. The company was founded...

used in the technology sector and especially in the semiconductor industry, where the semiconductor manufacturing equipment (SME) book-to-bill ratio is...

specialized in electronic design automation (EDA) software for the semiconductor industry, currently the company makes software and hardware for designing...

published theories of the rectifying effect of metal-semiconductor contacts. The use of semiconductor junctions sparked the computer revolution in the second...

licences for semiconductor chip manufacturing technologies and assist with engineering training, with the aim of establishing semiconductor chip design...

In semiconductor physics, the depletion region, also called depletion layer, depletion zone, junction region, space charge region, or space charge layer...

amplifier's gain medium causes amplification of incoming light. In semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs), electron–hole recombination occurs. In Raman...

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efficiency and processing power. Metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) large-scale integration (LSI) then enabled semiconductor memory and the microprocessor, leading...

In semiconductor fabrication, a resist is a thin layer used to transfer a circuit pattern to the semiconductor substrate which it is deposited upon. A...

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1999, the company was the parent of Intersil, under the name Harris Semiconductor. In 2016, Harris was named one of the top hundred federal contractors...

uncompetitive. Metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) large-scale integration (LSI) technology subsequently led to the development of semiconductor memory in the mid-to-late...

mobility characterizes how quickly an electron can move through a metal or semiconductor when pushed or pulled by an electric field. There is an analogous quantity...

Solid-state electronics are semiconductor electronics: electronic equipment that use semiconductor devices such as transistors, diodes and integrated circuits...

Yuanjie Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. (Yuanjie; Chinese: 源杰科技; pinyin: Yuánjié Kējì) is a publicly listed Chinese company that engages in the provision...

is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It is one of the top 10 semiconductor companies worldwide based on...

Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation (VIS) is a Taiwanese specialized IC foundry service provider, founded in December 1994 in Hsinchu Science...

The Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute (Chinese: 國家實驗研究院台灣半導體研究中心; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kok-ka Si̍t-giām Gián-kiú-īⁿ Tâi-oân Poàn-tō-thé Gián-kiú Tiong-sim)...

The semiconductor Bloch equations (abbreviated as SBEs) describe the optical response of semiconductors excited by coherent classical light sources, such...

packaging allows multiple devices, including electrical, mechanical, or semiconductor devices, to be merged and packaged as a single electronic device. Advanced...

three-way coupling effect of piezoelectric, semiconductor and photonic properties in non-central symmetric semiconductor materials, using the piezoelectric potential...

A photodiode is a semiconductor diode sensitive to photon radiation, such as visible light, infrared or ultraviolet radiation, X-rays and gamma rays....

Astera Labs, Inc. is an American fabless semiconductor manufacturer and artificial intelligence company. The company specializes in designing high-speed...

compounds are the ternary semiconductors, particularly within the III-V semiconductor family. In this type of semiconductor, the ternary can be considered...

strictly the term discrete component refers to such a component with semiconductor material such as individual transistors. Electronic components have...

PMC-Sierra was a global fabless semiconductor company with offices worldwide that developed and sold semiconductor devices into the storage, communications...

Tunneling leakage can also occur across semiconductor junctions between heavily doped P-type and N-type semiconductors. Other than tunneling via the gate insulator...

permanently damaged due to overheating at the small (localized) areas of the semiconductor junction where avalanche breakdown conduction is occurring. A Zener...

was an American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He was also credited with the...

third CEO of Intel, transforming the company into the world's largest semiconductor company. As a result of his work at Intel, along with his books and...

ethylene, housing, medical devices, electronics, engineered resins, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and liquors began in the 1960s and 1990s. Net sales...

to the optical and electronic properties of semiconductors, semiconductor quantum optics, and semiconductor laser designs. Major portion of his research...

Gary E. Dickerson (born 1957) is a business leader in the semiconductor industry. He is best known for his position as CEO of Applied Materials and as...

distributes semiconductors that are either obsolete or nearing the end of their product lifecycle. The company is authorized by over 70 semiconductor manufacturers...

Fairchild Semiconductor in 1968, the self-aligned MOS (metal–oxide–semiconductor) silicon-gate technology (SGT), which made possible MOS semiconductor memory...

Japanese leading manufacturer of automatic test equipment (ATE) for the semiconductor industry, and a manufacturer of measuring instruments used in the design...

Within electronics, an Electrolyte–insulator–semiconductor (EIS) sensor is a sensor that is made of these three components: an electrolyte with the chemical...

physicist and a pioneer in nanomaterials research. He discovered the semiconductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots in 1981, while working at the Vavilov...

semiconductor company headquartered in Shanghai. Its primary focus is on research and development for semiconductor design and sale of semiconductor devices...

STMicroelectronics SA (FR) Code 0x03: Hitachi Ltd (JP) Code 0x04: NXP Semiconductors (DE) Code 0x05: Infineon Technologies AG (DE) Code 0x06: Cylink (US)...

abbreviated as MTK, is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company that designs and markets a range of semiconductor products, providing chips for wireless...

group of eight employees who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957 to found Fairchild Semiconductor. William Shockley had in 1956 recruited a...

in many-body systems such as semiconductors or metals. A theoretical approach to handle this is given by the semiconductor luminescence equations. Photoluminescent...

The ASD Semiconductor-Network Computer, also called the Molecular Electronic Computer, was a very early microminiaturized integrated-circuit based computer...

in 1897, which led to the development of television, and the first semiconductor diode in 1874, which co-started the development of electronics and electronic...

semiconductor pioneer. A member of the traitorous eight, he left Nobel-winning physicist William Shockley's company to form Fairchild Semiconductor....

incentives for semiconductor-related investments through its semiconductor and electronics policies, covering areas such as semiconductor design, fabrication...

A definition in semiconductor physics, carrier lifetime is defined as the average time it takes for a minority carrier to recombine. The process through...

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is a Chinese semiconductor integrated device manufacturer headquartered in Hefei, Anhui, specializing in the production...

The Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (or SCPA) is an act of the US Congress that makes the layouts of integrated circuits legally protected upon...

Laboratory. He is known for his work on the theory and simulation of semiconductors, and quantum devices including quantum wires, quantum dots, and quantum...

erase/write cycles. Most of the major semiconductor manufactures, such as Toshiba, Sanyo (later, ON Semiconductor), IBM, Intel, NEC (later, Renesas Electronics)...

chemical products used in manufacturing semiconductor chips, printed circuit board, advanced packaging (semiconductor), and specialty industrial applications...

Nexperia (NXP Semiconductors), ON Semiconductor (Fairchild Semiconductor), Texas Instruments (National Semiconductor), Toshiba. The logic families available...

Wolfspeed, Inc. is an American developer and manufacturer of wide-bandgap semiconductors, focused on silicon carbide materials and devices for power applications...

piezoresistive effect is a change in the electrical resistivity of a semiconductor or metal when mechanical strain is applied. In contrast to the piezoelectric...

form Fairchild Semiconductor; Shockley referred to them as the "traitorous eight". Two of the original employees of Fairchild Semiconductor, Robert Noyce...

Chinese company that manufactures semiconductor chip production equipment. It is currently the largest semiconductor equipment manufacturer in China. According...

CRC Press. p. 728. ISBN 9781420028782. Brown, Matt (2020-07-01). "Semiconductor Photo Lithography". Inseto UK. Retrieved 2024-04-30. Lu, Daniel; Wong...

known as the 32k, is a series of microprocessors produced by National Semiconductor. Design work began around 1980 and it was announced at the International...

alignment and quality control capabilities. They were used primarily in the Semiconductor device fabrication, Integrated circuit packaging, Printed circuit board...

introduced the AIM physics engine and Electronics Desktop, which is for semiconductor design. The following year, version 17 introduced a new user interface...

Semiconductor saturable-absorber mirrors (SESAMs) are a type of saturable absorber used in mode locking lasers. Semiconductor saturable absorbers were...

type of semiconductor laser diode with laser beam emission perpendicular from the top surface, contrary to conventional edge-emitting semiconductor lasers...

is an American businessman and engineer, who was a co-founder of the semiconductor manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and its CEO from 1969 to...

4000 series. ASIC chips are typically fabricated using metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) technology, as MOS integrated circuit chips. As feature sizes...

memory cell architecture is MOS memory, which consists of metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) memory cells. Modern random-access memory (RAM) uses MOS field-effect...

sound in the earphones. It was the first type of semiconductor diode, and one of the first semiconductor electronic devices. The most common type was the...

MicroConverter Family – ARM7 and 8051 cores While Arm is a fabless semiconductor company (it does not manufacture or sell its own chips), it licenses...

manufacturers make RTCs, including Epson, Intersil, IDT, Maxim, NXP Semiconductors, Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics and Ricoh. A common RTC used...

International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) is a set of documents that was coordinated and organized by Semiconductor Research Corporation and produced...

The National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) is a research institution operated by Natcast. It is a consortium comprising governments, industries...

INSEE "Altis Semiconductor S.N.C.: Private Company Information – Businessweek". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 2015-12-27. Altis Semiconductor S.N.C., a specialty...

a semiconductor, a process called "electroluminescence". The wavelength of the light produced depends on the energy band gap of the semiconductors used...

SkyWater Technology, Inc. is an American semiconductor engineering and fabrication foundry, based in Bloomington, Minnesota. It is the only US-owned pure-play...

served twice as chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). Corrigan is a veteran of Fairchild Semiconductor. He was born in Liverpool, England...

those of small, individual molecules and those of bulk, crystalline semiconductors. They are unique because of their easily modular properties, which are...

billionaire business executive who is the chairman of Taiwan-based Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE). On the Forbes 2024 list of the world's billionaires...

systems development by NXP Semiconductors. It was formerly manufactured by Freescale Semiconductor (formerly the semiconductor division of Motorola) which...

integrated circuit (IC or "chip"), i.e. the arrangement on a chip of semiconductor devices such as transistors and passive electronic components such as...

Technology The Netherlands: ASML Holding, Ferrovial, Nebius Group, NXP Semiconductors United Kingdom: Arm Holdings, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Historical...

York that designs and builds processing systems used in semiconductor and compound semiconductor manufacturing, data storage and scientific markets for...

Taiwanese business executive and electrical engineer who is the founder of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), the largest contract...

Before the introduction of semiconductors, there were vacuum tube curve tracers (e.g., Tektronix 570). Early semiconductor curve tracers themselves used...

from the conventional bulk metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET), where the semiconductor material typically is the substrate, such...

Instruments introduced the SN5400 series of logic chips, in a ceramic semiconductor package. A low-cost plastic package SN7400 series was introduced in...

It was designed by Bob Dobkin in 1976 while he worked at National Semiconductor. The LM337 is the negative complement to the LM317, which regulates...

National Semiconductor's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). She worked closely with Amelio to move National Semiconductor to profitability...

Chinese company that manufactures semiconductor chip production equipment. It is currently one of the largest semiconductor equipment manufacturers in China...

ams OSRAM AG is an Austrian semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Premstätten, Austria with a co-headquarters in Munich, Germany. The company develops...

optical effects in semiconductors and semiconductor nanostructures. After an introduction into the basic principles, the semiconductor Bloch equations (abbreviated...

has co-founded several companies in the semiconductor and biotechnology sectors, including Jazz Semiconductor, Cellular Biomedicine Group, and Helio Genomics...

physicist who was Professor at Technische Universität Berlin. His work on semiconductor physics focuses on quantum dots. Pohl studied physics at RWTH Aachen...

and in October 2008 e2v acquired QP semiconductor, a US-based designer and supplier of speciality semiconductor components used in military and aerospace...

sensors, ultrasonic sensors, electrochemical gas sensors, and metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) sensors. More recently, infrared imaging sensors have come into...

multi-gate field-effect transistor (MuGFET) refers to a metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) that has more than one gate on a single...

physics, and particularly for his research on elemental and compound semiconductors, in which he explored various electromagnetic phenomena, including magnetoplasma...

the president, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC). Wei was born Lugu Township, Nantou...

SEMATECH (from Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology) was a not-for-profit consortium that performed research and development to advance chip manufacturing...

Spin gapless semiconductors are a class of materials in which the spin-averaged electronic band structure has no band gap, while the two spin channels...

semiconductor technology include the integrated circuit (IC) invented by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor in...

for the power industry, semiconductor industry, and pharmaceutical industry. Water purity requirements of the semiconductor industry are generally the...

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

development of revolutionary technologies such as rubbers, plastics, semiconductors, and biomaterials. Before the 1960s (and in some cases decades after)...

The government announced the launch of India Semiconductor Mission 2.0 to strengthen domestic semiconductor manufacturing and supply chains. The budget...

A thermistor is a semiconductor type of resistor in which the resistance is strongly dependent on temperature. The word thermistor is a portmanteau of...

the third largest antitrust fine in US history. In April 2005, Hynix Semiconductor was fined $185 million after they also admitted guilt. In October 2005...

fell into a financial crisis as a result of its huge investment in the semiconductor business. In 2009, Sanyo was acquired by Panasonic, and in 2011, its...

desirable impurity. Float-zone silicon wafers can be converted into doped semiconductors through processes such as ion implantation. Float-zone silicon is typically...

Parsé Semiconductor Co. was established in 2003 in Tehran, Iran, is a digital design house for ASIC, SoC and FPGA designs. In 2006, the company announced...

The term photonics developed as an outgrowth of the first practical semiconductor light emitters invented in the early 1960s and optical fibers developed...

the glass surface of a copier, and the rotating disk used to polish semiconductor wafers. In office copiers and scanners, the platen is a flat glass surface...

heat better. The 1N400x series was originally introduced by Motorola's Semiconductor Products Division and registered at JEDEC in 1963 as silicon power rectifiers...

International has acquired several high tech manufacturing businesses in the semiconductor, aviation, automotive, and telecom sectors. One of E-Town's earliest...

produce a pattern on a thin wafer of material (usually silicon). In semiconductor manufacturing, a mask is sometimes called a reticle. In photolithography...

Shelton is the co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA). In 2018, with the inaugural Rising Women of Influence...

(born 10 August 1942) is a British physicist notable for his work in semiconductor nanostructures. Pepper was born on 10 August 1942 to Morris and Ruby...

retardants, glasses, optical storage and optoelectronics, pyrotechnics, semiconductors, and electronics. The term metalloid originally referred to nonmetals...

"National Semiconductor Launches New Generation of Ultra-Miniature, High Pin-Count Integrated Circuit Packages". National Semiconductor. Archived from...

Erekutoron Kabushiki-gaisha), or TEL, is a Japanese electronics and semiconductor company headquartered in Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Founded as...

Microsemi Corporation was an Aliso Viejo, California-based provider of semiconductor and system solutions for aerospace & defense, communications, data center...

the charge carriers are often electrons moving through a wire. In semiconductors, the charge carriers can be electrons or holes. In an electrolyte, the...

metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) designed to handle significant power levels. Compared to the other power semiconductor devices...

Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics of the Siberian Branch of the RAS (Russian: Институт физики полупроводников имени А. В. Ржанова СО РАН) is...

led Cyrix to begin losing money, and the company merged with National Semiconductor on 11 November 1997. National released Cyrix's latest designs under...

equipment. It supplies process control and yield management systems for the semiconductor industry and other related nanoelectronics industries. The company's...

carried out on December 16, 1947, consisted of a block of germanium, a semiconductor, with two very closely spaced gold contacts held against it by a spring...

solids can be classified as insulators, semiconductors, semimetals, or metals. In insulators and semiconductors the filled valence band is separated from...

insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) is a three-terminal power semiconductor device primarily forming an electronic switch. It was developed to combine...

Bow and warp of semiconductor wafers and substrates are measures of the flatness of wafers. Bow is the deviation of the center point of the median surface...

Entegris, Inc. is a supplier of materials for the semiconductor and other high-tech industries. Entegris has approximately 7,700 employees throughout...

EZchip Semiconductor Ltd. was a publicly traded fabless semiconductor company, headquartered in Yokneam, Israel, that developed and marketed Ethernet network...

and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Cypress Semiconductor and holds patents ranging from semiconductors to energy to winemaking. Rodgers is known for...

In semiconductor manufacturing, the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems defines the "5 nm" process as the MOSFET technology node following the...

National Semiconductor's IPC-16A PACE, short for "Processing and Control Element", was the first commercial single-chip 16-bit microprocessor, announced...

A silicon-controlled switch (SCS) is a four-terminal semiconductor device belonging to the thyristor family. It is a PNPN device similar in structure...

switches. Today, most logic gates are made from MOSFETs (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors). They can also be constructed using vacuum...

In semiconductor manufacturing, the "3 nm process" is the next die shrink after the "5 nm" MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor)...

Semiconductor fault diagnostics are predictive software algorithms which are used to refine and localize the circuitry responsible for the failure of...

engineer, researcher, professor, and scholar. He has specialized in semiconductor physics. He obtained a degree in electrical communications and electronics...

born 1972) is a Chinese businessman who is Founder and Chairman of semiconductor companies, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and GigaDevice. Zhu was...

its material properties, in particular the energy bandgap within the semiconductor. Many materials including silicon, germanium, germanium on silicon and...

Megatrends entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Lattice Semiconductor for 1.65 billion in a combination of cash and stock. On July 27, 2026...

communications. The corrected -A version was released in 1987 by National Semiconductor. It is frequently used to implement the serial port for IBM PC compatible...

specifically, over time positive charges become trapped at the oxide-semiconductor boundary underneath the gate of a MOSFET. These positive charges partially...

Holtek Semiconductor (Chinese: 盛群半導體股份有限公司) is a Taiwan-based semiconductor design centre and provider with its headquarters and design operations based...

businessman. He is the president and CEO of Cornami, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company focused on fully homomorphic encryption. Previously, he was...

Paul Richman (born November 17, 1942) is an American semiconductor physicist and author. In 1963, Richman studied at M.I.T. and graduated with a Bachelor...

set up in Austin two years later, and Motorola (now NXP Semiconductors) started semiconductor chip manufacturing in 1974. A number of Fortune 500 companies...

Cerebras Systems Inc., headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, develops semiconductors, supercomputers, and related software to power artificial intelligence...

of Computer Science at the University of Bristol and founder of XMOS Semiconductor, serving until February 2014 as the chief technology officer. May was...

In semiconductor manufacturing, the "1 nm process" represents the next significant milestone in MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor)...

Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation. In 1965, Moore was working as the director of research and development (R&D) at Fairchild Semiconductor. He was asked...

CMOS has since become the standard semiconductor device fabrication process for MOSFETs (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors). He obtained...

generations of the ITRS Roadmap for miniaturized semiconductor device fabrication in the semiconductor industry. The CJK Compatibility block in Unicode...

cell belonging to the group of thin film solar cells. It is based on a semiconductor formed between a photo-sensitized anode and an electrolyte, a photoelectrochemical...

amplification or switching. BJTs use two p–n junctions between two semiconductor types, n-type and p-type, which are regions in a single crystal of material...

American developer and producer of radio, microwave, and millimeter wave semiconductor devices and components. The company is headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts...

an angle, a technique used in card tricks.[citation needed] In the semiconductor industry, wafers have two typical edge types: a slanted beveled shape...

jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect." Partly as a result of...

Nexperia B.V. is a semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. It is a subsidiary of Wingtech Technology, a Shanghai-listed...

(U.S. patent 2,402,662, "Light sensitive device"). Ohl was a notable semiconductor researcher prior to the invention of the transistor. He was also known...

Fairchild Semiconductor was sold to ON Semiconductor in 2016. ON Semiconductor was founded in 1999 as a spinoff of Motorola Semiconductor Components...

increase in temperature and decreases with a decrease in temperature. In semiconductor diodes, peak reverse voltage or peak inverse voltage is the maximum...

convection–diffusion equation. However, the Langevin equation is more general. In semiconductor physics, this equation is called the drift–diffusion equation. The word...

performance specifications despite variations in the semiconductor fabrication process. In modern semiconductor manufacturing, yield has a direct influence on...

is a fabless global technology company that designs and manufactures semiconductors, other silicon devices and software, which it sells to electronics design...

technique used in semiconductor physics and engineering to determine the specific contact resistivity between a metal and a semiconductor. TLM has been developed...

the semiconductor company that fabricates the chip using its semiconductor manufacturing process at a foundry (such as TSMC and Samsung Semiconductor)....

Indium phosphide (InP) is a binary semiconductor composed of indium and phosphorus. It has a face-centered cubic ("zincblende") crystal structure, identical...

(Industrial Quality and Research, Medical Technology, Consumer Markets and Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology) in almost 50 countries, has 30 production...

Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE. It covers research on semiconductor device fabrication...

networks in computing. They are based on a reference design from National Semiconductor using their 8390 Ethernet chip. In the late 1980s, Novell was looking...

powered down). On the other hand, the term "memory" is used to refer to semiconductor read-write data storage, typically dynamic random-access memory (DRAM)...

more than eight percent of the overall semiconductor market and more than 34 percent of the total semiconductor memory market. In 2012, the market was...

billions of dollars comprising companies such as 3M, Cypress Semiconductor, NXP Semiconductor, Cirrus Logic, Silicon Labs, and the Austin division of the...

of epitaxial growth is in the semiconductor industry, where semiconductor films are grown epitaxially on semiconductor substrate wafers. For the case...

boundaries (i.e. a single crystal). Mono-Si can be prepared as an intrinsic semiconductor that consists only of exceedingly pure silicon, or it can be doped by...

Photolithography Etching (microfabrication) Design for manufacturability Semiconductor device fabrication Maling, D. H. (2013). Measurements from Maps: Principles...

a semiconductor provides the band bending necessary for charge separation. Traditional solar cells are composed of p-type and n-type semiconductor layers...

to the 2N3904 NPN transistor. Both types were registered by Motorola Semiconductor in the mid-1960s. The 2N3906 is manufactured in a plastic TO-92 case...

conversion, measurement and control technologies for the manufacture of semiconductors, flat panel displays, data storage products, telecommunications network...

Burstein–Moss shift, is the phenomenon in which the apparent band gap of a semiconductor is increased as the absorption edge is pushed to higher energies as...

The Leading-edge Semiconductor Technology Center is a semiconductor research institution based in Japan. It is funded by the Ministry of Economy, Trade...

via acquisitions and divestitures; these included defense products, semiconductors, computer systems, and others. By the 21st century, PerkinElmer was...

fields like nuclear physics and astronomy. The mid-20th century brought semiconductor-based photodetectors, such as photodiodes and phototransistors, which...

ATI Mobile Graphics) is a series of graphics processing unit (GPU) semiconductor intellectual property cores developed by Qualcomm and used in many of...

Achilles wrote for the American Economic Liberties Project on the semiconductor industry as pertains to national security, supply chain resilience,...

DisplayLink Corp. (formerly Newnham Research) was a semiconductor and software technology company. It specialized in developing DisplayLink USB graphics...

Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment (Group) Co., Ltd. (SMEE) is a semiconductor manufacturing equipment company based in Shanghai, China. The company...

private equity firm Silver Lake. The company was founded in 1983 by semiconductor veterans Robert Hartmann, Paul Newhagen, James Sansbury, and Michael...

Gurtej Singh Sandhu (born 24 October 1960) is an American inventor and semiconductor technologist who is widely recognized for his pioneering contributions...

Semiconductor ring lasers (SRLs) are miniature ring laser devices with potential applications in optoelectronics, photonics and all-optical circuits....

microelectronics (imec), a semiconductor foundry (former Alcatel Microelectronics, now STMicroelectronics and AMI Semiconductor,) and a training program...

in Japan. NEC was one of the world's largest personal computer and semiconductor manufacturers from the 1980s to the 2000s, but has largely withdrawn...

pure-play semiconductor foundry company based in Hefei, Anhui. In terms of revenue, it is currently mainland China's third largest semiconductor foundry...

GigaDevice Semiconductor Inc. (Chinese: 兆易创新; pinyin: zhàoyì chuāngxīn) is a fabless semiconductor company that develops flash memory, microcontrollers...

physics of III-V compound semiconductors, and made significant contributions to pave the way for the creation of the first semiconductor laser, optoelectronics...

primarily of interest in plasmaless cleaning and etching operations in the semiconductor industry, in nuclear reactor fuel processing, historically as a rocket...

whose research focused on semiconductor lasers, optical waveguides and optical devices. His published work included semiconductor-laser filamentation, multilayer...

profiling, sometimes CV profiling) is a technique for characterizing semiconductor materials and devices. The applied voltage is varied, and the capacitance...

basis for the HEMT was the GaAs (gallium arsenide) MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor), which Mimura had been researching as an alternative...

F9440 and μFLAME, was a 16-bit microprocessor introduced by Fairchild Semiconductor in 1977. The 9440 implemented the Data General Nova 2's instruction...

South Korea's major export industries include semiconductors, automobiles, and shipbuilding. Other major industries in South Korea are electronics, telecommunications...

2016 and is the successor to the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors. These predictions are intended to allow coordination of efforts across...

used semiconductor manufacturing equipment and parts. Founded in 2000, the company’s business includes the acquisition and sale of used semiconductor equipment...

Electron-beam-induced current (EBIC) is a semiconductor analysis technique performed in a scanning electron microscope (SEM) or scanning transmission...

Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp. (YMTC) is a Chinese semiconductor integrated device manufacturer specializing in flash memory (NAND) chips. Founded...

used for the production of solar cells, integrated circuits and other semiconductor devices. Polysilicon consists of small crystals, also known as crystallites...

Incorporated) is an American manufacturer of optical materials and semiconductors. As of 2023, the company had 26,622 employees. Its stock is listed on...

Series SoCs are a family of ultra low-power wireless SoCs from Nordic Semiconductor. The nRF51 series are designed to enable a wide range of wireless embedded...

between an integrated circuit (IC) or other semiconductor device and its packaging during semiconductor device fabrication. Wire bonding can also be...

System Architecture, also known as "苏堤"). Biren Technology Lisuan Tech Semiconductor industry in China Mark Tyson (March 30, 2022). "China's First Domestic...

and Magma Design Automation. He serves on the boards of the Global Semiconductor Alliance and the ESD Alliance. Anirudh Devgan was born on September...

Semiconductor Science and Technology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all applied or explicitly applicable experimental and theoretical...

Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hongxin or HSMC) (Chinese 弘芯), a multi-billion chip project backed by the Wuhan government, China...

language θύρα, meaning "door" or "valve", and transistor) is a solid-state semiconductor device which can be thought of as being a highly robust and switchable...

processors are produced in large numbers by highly automated metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) fabrication processes, resulting in a relatively low unit price...

Co. Ltd. (Chinese: 炬力集成; pinyin: Jùlì Jíchéng) is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Zhuhai, Guangdong province...

Oramir Semiconductor Equipment Ltd. was an Israeli company that developed advanced laser cleaning technologies for semiconductor wafers, used during their...

co-founder Mike Salameh. In January 2009, the company acquired Oxford Semiconductor for 5.6 million shares of PLX common stock, and a promissory note for...

dielectric layer that separates the gate terminal of a MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) from the underlying source and drain terminals...

MSF disappeared around 2009. Construction on a new semiconductor plant, Communicant Semiconductor Technologies, had started already but this endeavour...

(Espressif; Chinese: 乐鑫科技; pinyin: Lèxīn Kējì) is a publicly listed Chinese semiconductor company headquartered in Shanghai. It focuses on developing and selling...

operate on mechanical changes instead of charge carrier effects in semiconductors. These devices were first discovered and described by Gerald Pearson...

was titled The photophysical properties of molecules near metal and semiconductor surfaces. After receiving his doctorate, Alivisatos joined AT&T Bell...

semiconductors customized for Huawei and made with US technology. In August 2020, the US again extended the ban to a blanket ban on all semiconductor...

Hong Kong that designs and manufactures machines and tools used in semiconductor and electronics assembly industries. It was originally the Asia division...

LDMOS (laterally-diffused metal-oxide semiconductor) is a planar double-diffused MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) used in amplifiers...

at semiconductor interfaces, with low contact resistance and linear I–V behavior, are critical for the performance and reliability of semiconductor devices...

Cambridge Semiconductor Limited (CamSemi) is a fabless semiconductor business based in Cambridge, England that was acquired by US-based competitor Power...

In a CCD image sensor, pixels are represented by p-doped metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) capacitors. These MOS capacitors, the basic building blocks of...

the speed and capacity of digital computers, provided by advances in semiconductor technology and expressed in the bi-yearly doubling of transistor density...

speed than earlier transistors and used metal–semiconductor junctions (instead of semiconductor–semiconductor junctions), but unlike the Schottky transistor...

and technology dealing with electrical circuits that involve active semiconductor components and associated passive interconnection technologies. Analog...

In semiconductor manufacturing, silicon on insulator (SOI) technology is fabrication of silicon semiconductor devices in a layered silicon–insulator–silicon...

type designation and registration system for active devices, such as semiconductors, liquid crystal displays, sensor devices, electronic tubes and cathode-ray...

Electronic Battleship 1982. Coleco Head to Head Basketball. National Semiconductor Quiz Kid Racer. Entex Space Invader. Texas Instruments My Little Computer...

in the form of BTL memos before being published in 1957. At Shockley Semiconductor, Shockley had circulated the preprint of their article in December 1956...

In solid-state physics of semiconductors, carrier generation and carrier recombination are processes by which mobile charge carriers (electrons and electron...

scientist, and an expert on high-κ dielectrics and their applications in semiconductor-based electronics, and more generally on materials and processes for...

Systems, Inc. was an American-based software developer and fabless semiconductor company that developed technology for voice and audio processing, imaging...

with Ivar Giaever and Brian Josephson for his work on tunneling in semiconductors, which led to his invention of the tunnel diode that exploits this phenomenon...

of STMicroelectronics and NXP Semiconductors, existing between 2008 and 2009. Formerly a division of the semiconductor firm Royal Philips Electronics...

strength and corrosion-resistant steel. Multilayer molybdenite flakes are semiconductors with an indirect bandgap. In contrast, monolayer flakes have a direct...

equipment and devices and authored his first book, Introduction to Semiconductor Devices (1960), a textbook that demonstrated his ability to simplify...

manufactured and to replace the installed device. Floating-gate ROM semiconductor memory in the form of erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM)...

subsidiary brand of National Semiconductor. The brand name was carried through when TI purchased National Semiconductor in 2011. The original SolarMagic...

heterojunction is an interface between two layers or regions of dissimilar semiconductors. These semiconducting materials have unequal band gaps as opposed to...

processing unit (CPU) instruction set architecture designed by Fairchild Semiconductor. The architecture had little market success: the only computer manufacturers...

hundreds of micrometers long. Other important examples are based on semiconductors such as InP, Si, GaN, etc., dielectrics (e.g. SiO2,TiO2), or metals...

of crystal growth used to obtain single crystals (monocrystals) of semiconductors (e.g. silicon, germanium and gallium arsenide), metals (e.g. palladium...

Ampere Computing LLC is an American fabless semiconductor company that designs ARM-based central processing units (CPUs) with high core counts for use...

Kazunari Ishimaru from the Memory Division, Toshiba Corporation Semiconductor and Storage Products Company, Yokohama, Japan was named Fellow of the Institute...

MStar Semiconductor, Inc. (Chinese: 晨星半導體股份有限公司; pinyin: Chénxīng Bàndǎotǐ Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī) was a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company specializing...

n-type diamond: evidence for superconduction at room temperature". Semiconductor Science and Technology. 18 (3): S131–S140. Bibcode:2003SeScT..18S.131P...

Programmable Array Logic (PAL) is a family of programmable logic device semiconductors used to implement logic functions in digital circuits that was introduced...

cameras, frame grabbers, imaging software) as well as specialized semiconductor fabrication (MEMS, high voltage ASICs). Teledyne DALSA is part of the...

December 17, 1974) is a South Korean businessman and chairman of Hanmi Semiconductor [ko]. He is among the richest people in South Korea, with Forbes estimating...

A p–n diode is a type of semiconductor diode based upon the p–n junction. The diode conducts current in only one direction, and it is made by joining...

An EOSFET or electrolyte–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor is a FET, like a MOSFET, but with an electrolyte solution replacing the metal for...

P. A. Semi (originally Palo Alto Semiconductor) was an American fabless semiconductor company founded in Santa Clara, California in 2003 by Daniel W. Dobberpuhl...

maker, especially for the semiconductor production industry. The company makes dicing saws and laser saws to cut semiconductor silicon wafers and other...

(SRD, snap-off diode or charge-storage diode or memory varactor) is a semiconductor junction diode with the ability to generate extremely short pulses....

National Semiconductor. Because of this, National Semiconductor claims the title of "LDO inventor". Dobkin later left National Semiconductor in 1981 and...

semiconductor devices and his invention, Multilayered Thermistor Structure. Radamson teaches and conducts research within the field of semiconductor physics...