First successful use of vapor deposition on industrial silicon wafers delivers unprecedented durability in perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells. (Nanowerk News) Researchers from the National ...

A silicon wafer is a thin slice of crystalline silicon typically grown using the Czochralski process, which involves pulling a crystal seed from a molten silicon bath. A silicon wafer is a thin slice ...

An international research team in China has used Czochralski n-type c-Si wafers from China-based Sichuan Yongxiang to build textured wafers with a thickness ranging from 65 μm to 55 μm. They have used ...

Wolfspeed has produced a single crystal 300mm silicon carbide wafer, an advancement that marks the next stage in the development of silicon carbide technology. The company, which holds over 2,300 ...

Researchers from China's Shandong University have proposed a new methodology for the quantitative prediction of excess kerf loss caused by lateral vibration of diamond wire wafer cutting in solar ...

imec, a Belgium-based research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, has announced "a significant milestone in silicon photonics" with the successful demonstration of ...

With a thickness of only 20 µm and a diameter of 300 mm, Infineon’s silicon power wafers are the thinnest in the industry. These ultra-thin wafers are a quarter the thickness of a human hair and half ...

Silicon is the second most abundant element in Earth’s crust, but is rarely found in pure form. High-purity quartzite (SiO 2) is reduced in an electric arc furnace at around 1,800 °C using carbon ...