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Fujifilm completes expansion of its facility in Mesa, Arizona, to supply the semiconductor industry

Tuesday 05 April 2022
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FUJIFILM Electronic Materials, U.S.A., Inc., a leading supplier of chemicals and advanced materials for the semiconductor industry with four manufacturing and R&D sites across the US, recently announced that it has completed its $88M expansion of its electronic materials facility in Mesa, Arizona. The added 80 000 sq. ft. to the existing facility includes five new buildings to expand Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP), high-purity solvents and process chemicals manufacturing capacity, warehousing, R&D and quality control laboratories, office space, and bulk chemical handling and storage.

Imec and Buhler Leybold enable high-throughput manufacturing of filter-on-chip CMOS sensors with unmatched precision

Monday 04 April 2022
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Buhler Leybold Optics (Alzenau, Germany), a supplier of cutting-edge thin-film vacuum coaters and imec (Leuven, Belgium), a world-leading research and innovation center in nanoelectronics, have qualified Buhler’s HELIOS 800 tool to meet the stringent standards of the semiconductor industry and developed high performance filters for optical image sensors. The enhanced tool opens up many new applications that require a precise deposition of high-quality optical stacks at high manufacturing speed. The development is going to lead to a new generation of high-resolution low-cost hyperspectral imaging sensors.

Brewer Science expands analytical and application testing services

Friday 01 April 2022
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Brewer Science, Inc. (Rolla, Missouri), a global leader in developing and manufacturing next-generation materials and processes for the microelectronics and optoelectronics industries, has recently expanded its analytical and application testing services to include stand-alone chemical, polymer, trace impurity, on-wafer & thin film characterisation testing services to customers – services the company has perfected through its processes for nearly four decades.

PragmatIC Semiconductor unveils plans for new UK site

Tuesday 29 March 2022
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PragmatIC Semiconductor (Cambridge, UK), a world leader in flexible electronics, has unveiled PragmatIC Park, Durham, UK, as the site for installation of its second FlexLogIC fabrication line producing ultra-low-cost flexible integrated circuits.

OE-A Business Climate Survey – Printed electronics industry braves the storm

Monday 28 March 2022
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The signs are set for growth in the flexible, organic, and printed electronics industry. This is the clear message from the latest business climate survey conducted by the OE-A (Organic and Printed Electronics Association), with 86 percent of the survey participants expecting the industry to continue its positive development in 2022. “We have seen that innovation has continued through the pandemic, and our members throughout the supply chain and product cycle are looking forward to positive near-term growth,” summarises Stan Farnsworth, chair of the OE-A board and chief marketing officer of NovaCentrix, regarding the results of the latest OE-A Business Climate Survey for the international press at LOPEC 2022 in Munich, Germany.