Merck Reiterates Confidence in Returning to Sustainable Growth

Tailwind thanks to robust global growth trends in all three business sectors

18-Oct-2024 - Merck is looking confidently toward the future. At the Capital Markets Day, the company shared its expectation of profitable and financially strong growth in the coming years. After the transitional year of 2023, Merck considers the medium-term growth opportunities in its markets to be intact. ...

WACKER Expands HCl Production for the Semiconductor Industry in Burghausen

02-Aug-2023 - Wacker Chemie AG has recently finished expanding its production of hyperpure hydrogen chloride at its Burghausen site in Germany. The facility which was commissioned in mid-July significantly increased overall production. Buyers for the newly added production volumes come from the semiconductor ...

WACKER to Expand Semiconductor-Grade Polysilicon Production Capacity in Burghausen

13-Jun-2023 - Munich-based Wacker Chemie AG announced its intention to expand its capacity for cleaning semiconductor-grade polysilicon. Accordingly, there are plans to set up a new production line at the company’s Burghausen site by early 2025. The new plant will increase existing capacity at the site by well ...

Arieca Announces $6.5M Series A Funding Round

Company will use the investment to accelerate product development and scale up manufacturing of its Liquid Metal-based thermal interface materials

23-May-2022 - Arieca Inc., the leader in liquid-metal based thermal interface materials(TIMs) for high performance computing and high power semiconductor devices, announced a $6.5 million Series A funding round co-lead by Nissan Chemical Corporation and 412 Venture Fund, with participation from ROHM Co. Ltd., ...

Heraeus Accelerator Program 2021 starts with five start-ups

Startups from Germany and Spain selected

16-Sep-2021 - Heraeus, a leading technology group, is launching its 2021 Accelerator Program with five selected start-ups: OrelTech, Fusion Bionic, Highline Technology, Intelligent Fluids from Germany and NANOGAP from Spain. The focus of the 2021 program is on start-ups developing solutions and products for ...

Fine tuned: adjusting the composition and properties of semiconducting 2D alloys

Scientists experimentally realize 2D Si-Ge alloys with tunable electronic properties, getting us closer to a breakthrough in modern electronics

05-Feb-2021 - Semiconducting 2D alloys could be key to overcoming the technical limitations of modern electronics. Although 2D Si-Ge alloys would have interesting properties for this purpose, they were only predicted theoretically. Now, scientists from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have ...

Bending light around tight corners without backscattering losses

Photonic crystal waveguide paves the way to build futuristic light-based computers

21-Nov-2018 - Engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a device that can direct photons of light around sharp corners with virtually no losses due to backscattering, a key property that will be needed if electronics are ever to be replaced with light-based devices. The result was achieved with photonic ...

Tungsten offers nano-interconnects a path of least resistance

06-Oct-2017 - As microchips become ever smaller and therefore faster, the shrinking size of their copper interconnects leads to increased electrical resistivity at the nanoscale. Finding a solution to this impending technical bottleneck is a major problem for the semiconductor industry. One promising ...

Hafnia dons a new face

17-May-2017 - It's a material world, and an extremely versatile one at that, considering its most basic building blocks -- atoms -- can be connected together to form different structures that retain the same composition. Diamond and graphite, for example, are but two of the many polymorphs of carbon, meaning ...

Chemically tailored Graphene

Spectral fingerprint allows control of function

10-May-2017 - Two-dimensional graphene consists of single layers of carbon atoms and exhibits intriguing properties. The transparent material conducts electricity and heat extremely well. It is at the same time flexible and solid. Additionally, the electrical conductivity can be continuously varied between a ...