However, CMOS is ill-suited to the temperatures needed for epitaxy, the process of growing a layer of crystal on a crystalline substrate. This led G-ray to explore covalent wafer bonding.

Silicon photonics uses light to transmit data instead of relying on electrical signals, but since silicon itself can’t ...

Another multi-million-dollar company has received millions in taxpayer dollars from a Texas CHIPS Act grant. Through a bill passed by the Texas legislature and signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott, the ...

Their wafer fab is a state-of-the-art facility offering key advantages over the prior Emcore fab including supply security, custom epitaxy growth, superior technology, and major capacity improvements.

By November 2024, the first TSIF grant of $4.12 million was awarded to Intelligent Epitaxy Technology, Inc. (IntelliEPI) to expand operations at its 30,000 square-foot wafer production facility in ...

Additionally, GlobalWafers will convert part of its existing silicon epitaxy wafer manufacturing facility in Sherman, Texas, to silicon carbide epitaxy wafer manufacturing. Silicon carbide epitaxy ...

The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has identified a low-cost way to produce high-efficiency III-V solar cells with dynamic hydride vapor phase epitaxy (D ...

As a scaled global epitaxy wafer manufacturer, IQE is uniquely positioned in this market which has high barriers to entry. IQE supplies the whole market and is agnostic to the winners and losers ...