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OKI Develops Tiling crystal film bonding (CFB) Technology for Heterogeneous Integration of Optical Semiconductors onto 300 mm Silicon Wafers

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OKI (TOKYO: 6703) has successfully developed Tiling crystal film bonding (CFB; Note 1) technology using its proprietary CFB technology. This technology makes possible the ...
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Mechanism of hydrogen-driven free-electron generation in silicon elucidated for first time ever

Associate Professor Yuichiro Matsushita of Materials and Structures Laboratory, Institute of Science Tokyo, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Associate Professor Takahide Umeda of Institute of Pure and ...
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Unique straining affects phase transformations in silicon, a material vital for electronics

AMES, Iowa – When Valery Levitas left Europe in 1999, he packed up a rotational diamond anvil cell and brought it to the United States. He and the researchers in his group are still using a ...
Science Daily

X-ray data-enhanced computational method can determine crystal structures of multiphase materials

The new method can determine crystal structures underlying experimental data thus far difficult to analyze. A joint research team led by Yuuki Kubo and Shiji Tsuneyuki of the University of Tokyo has ...
Nanowerk

Silicon's secret shapes: Scientists shed light on rare hexagonal forms

Scientists uncovered rare hexagonal silicon forms (2H, 4H, 6H) created by stress and heat, challenging assumptions about this key electronic material. This is not the first time hexagonal silicon has ...

In 1916, Jan Czochralski mistakenly dipped his pen into molten metal, and the strange discovery became the foundation of modern silicon chips

A chance discovery in a lab over a century ago by Jan Czochralski changed the world. His accidental observation of a metallic thread revealed a crystal lattice structure. This breakthrough paved the ...