Advances in semiconductor lasers, optical miniaturization techniques, compact data processing capabilities, fluorescence suppression and probability-based statistical analysis algorithms have combined to allow the development of compact, rugged, self-contained Raman instruments that can be reliably used in harsh, outside-the-laboratory environments. Read how these instruments apply to unique ...
The Green IT movement depends largely on making computers in general – and specifically datacenters – more energy efficient. The main vehicle for accomplishing this has been server hardware that consumes less energy. However, making semiconductors that consume less energy is incredibly difficult, and may become more difficult over time.
In TBR’s view, the challenges in designing low-power chips ...
The sustainability performance of the software industry is inconsistent. Some firms, like Microsoft, have embraced the concept thoroughly. Others, like Oracle, have seemed somewhat more reluctant. There is one segment of the software industry, however, that is positioning itself a sustainability role model: Electronic Design Automation (EDA).
EDA firms make the software that semiconductor ...
Intel has implemented nine major strategies for encouraging employees to be environmentally responsible. All of them either match or far surpass typical programs implemented by semiconductor manufacturers.
The key to making the sustainability compensation plan effective is the broad range of Intel’s employee programs. They are designed to create a culture of sustainability that is governed by ...
An increasing number of companies are now extending their sustainability efforts and reporting to their supply chains. Since China is a major source of semiconductors, electronic components and finished high-tech goods, Chinese firms play a key role in many complex supply chains. Working with Chinese suppliers presents unique challenges for firms who are more accustomed to working with U.S.-based ...
The semiconductor industry in the United States regularly wins environmental awards and is frequently featured in “socially responsible” mutual fund portfolios.
Semiconductor firms use thousands of suppliers scattered among dozens of countries, many of which have lax enforcement of weak environmental laws. An ecological disaster from these fringes of the supply chain could easily blindside the ...
The bond pad is of vital importance to semiconductor technology as it is the portal through which signals pass to and from the integrated circuit. Failure of a simple wire bond will mean early failure in service or low device yield.
The bond pad is simply a small, 20 to 100 micron, usually square, metallic area around the periphery of a chip that is connected to the internal circuit. It is ...
Thirty years ago, the semiconductor industry was the poster child for manufacturing pollution, and was held responsible for astronomical rates of miscarriages and cancer. Since then, semiconductor firms have actively tried to create environmentally friendly facilities, and have successfully managed to radically reduce groundwater pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
Of the semiconductor ...
Infineon Technologies AG has introduced a brand-new family of nearly ideal semiconductor rectifiers: the Silicon Carbide (SiC) Schottky diodes. This paper describes the basic properties of the
novel Silicon Carbide semiconductor material in relation to market requirements and application benefits. Now commercially available, the SiC Schottky diodes display unique behavior with a
blocking ...
High-tech companies worldwide are notorious groundwater polluters. A patchwork of government regulations, combined with supply chains that ripple through nearly every region of the world, has created truly intolerable conditions in some countries. In the United States, high-tech companies are generally not big polluters of water. Semiconductor firms are a case in point. and while their ...
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