09 September 2008
Product Briefing Outline: SAFC Hitech has made significant progress in developing Germanium Antimony Telluride (GexSbyTez or GST) precursors for use in high volume manufacturing phase change memory (PCM) applications. Extensive development work has been conducted with both the precursors and with the use of conventional Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) techniques to deposit them, resulting in the successful deposition of device-quality GST.
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14 August 2008
Product Briefing Outline: Air Products and Chemicals
has introduced its new ‘XeCovery’ on-site xenon recovery service for
the semiconductor and MEMS industries. Xenon has a number of unique
properties that have attracted a variety of industries to use this
atom, including semiconductor manufacturing. With demand and prices on
the rise, there is a growing concern that cost will hamper its
applicability. Air Products uses its patented Vacuum Swing Adsorption
(VSA) technology as a means for recovering xenon from effluent gas
streams.
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28 July 2008
Product Briefing Outline: Matheson Tri-Gas Electronics
has introduced its patented ‘PICO-TRAP’ Ultra-Purification System for
removing volatile metal impurities and moisture from critical process
gases used by semiconductor manufacturers. The PICO-TRAP System
combines the principles of chemisorption and physisorption to achieve
higher levels of process gas purity than by conventional purification
technologies, according to the company.
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