For the past eight years at Tohoku he has been working on a new type of silicon semiconductor that has a three-dimensional design (see diagram, below).
Oscar serves on the Board of Directors for EXAR Corporation, a Silicon Valley semiconductor company.
Since quitting Toshiba in 1994, he has been working on what he expects will be an even more important invention: a "three-dimensional silicon-based semiconductor, " he says, which will increase the capacity of semiconductors by a factor of ten.
The dye molecules themselves are bound to tiny particles of titanium dioxide, a less-famous (but cheaper) semiconductor than silicon, and the whole assembly is immersed in an electrolyte and sandwiched between two electrodes.
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Semiconductor suppliers and silicon wafer makers had been among the worst hit.
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But how many teenage nerds can make, for instance, semiconductor-grade silicon?
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Gallium arsenide, a more expensive but superior semiconductor, will replace silicon in at least some cases.
Meanwhile, Dedio sees opportunity in two microcap chipmakers: Integrated Silicon Solutions (ISSI) and EZChip Semiconductor (EZCH).
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All of which starts with the need at the semiconductor level to reduce the silicon cost and power, at the same time increasing the performance per dollar.
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Yes, touch computing has been around for a little while now, and while that benefits companies such as Synaptics (SYNA), Silicon Labs (SLAB) and Cypress Semiconductor (CY), its some of the newer ones that caught my fancy.
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In the case of silicon, it's galloped for 41 years, ever since Fairchild Semiconductor and Texas Instruments shrunk a transistor from three dimensions into two and etched it in silicon.
So when the iPad went on sale Saturday, Kyle Wiens and his team at iFixit snapped one up, tore out its silicon heart, and brought it to the semiconductor reverse-engineering specialists at Chipworks to have it x-rayed, cross-sectioned, ground through, photographed, and violated in every possible fashion.
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The Santa Clara, California semiconductor company has acquired Eindhoven, The Netherlands-based Silicon Hive for an undisclosed sum.
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In LCDs silane gas breaks down into a film of silicon that forms the transistors that stimulate the pixels in the screen. (Flat-panel screens are essentially large semiconductor devices that sit on pieces of glass rather than on silicon wafers.) Another gas, nitrogen trifluoride, cleans the chambers in which both chips and LCDs are made.
In the semiconductor industry, identity has an importance that transcends the value of silicon chips.
Back in 1965 Moore noted how his first company, Fairchild Semiconductor, could double the number of transistors crammed onto a piece of silicon every 18 months.
The material is an organic photovoltaic semiconductor (called rr-P3HT) which, unlike the metal or silicon-based materials used until now for such biotechnological interfaces, is soft, light, flexible and highly biocompatible and naturally sensitive to visible light.
Silicon wafers, used to manufacture solar devices, is also a main component in the semiconductor industry.
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Fairchild Semiconductor, a pioneer in electronics manufacturing in the 1960s, is widely regarded as the first major Silicon Valley success story.
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