Shuji Nakamura: The Man Who Gave Us The Blue LED Despite All Odds

With the invention of the first LED featuring a red color, it seemed only a matter of time before LEDs would appear with other colors. Indeed, soon green and other colors joined the LED revolution,…

Researchers Claim First Functioning Graphene-Based Chip

The semiconductor bests silicon alternatives for electron mobility

Fastest Semiconductor May Also Be Most Expensive

Scientists have found what they think may be the fastest known semiconductor. Sounds great, right? But it happens to made from one of the rarest elements: rhenium. That rare element combines with s…

Start Your Semiconductor Fab With This DIY Tube Furnace

Most of us are content to get our semiconductors from the usual sources, happily abstracting away the complexity locked within those little epoxy blobs. But eventually, you might get the itch to ro…

Hackaday Links: August 13, 2023

Remember that time when the entire physics community dropped what it was doing to replicate the extraordinary claim that a room-temperature semiconductor had been discovered? We sure do, and if it …

Watch Out SiC, Diamond Power Semiconductors Are Coming For You!

The vast majority of semiconductors products we use every day are primarily constructed on a silicon process, using wafers of pure silicon. But whilst the economics are known, and processes mature,…

U.S. Calls for Bombing Taiwan’s Semiconductor Industry… Nord Stream Sabotage Redux

Taiwan is facing the curse of being an ally of Uncle Sam in the same way that Germany and the rest of Europe have. Taiwan…

Wireless Charging On A Massive Scale

Despite the increasing popularity of various electric vehicles, the limits of battery technology continue to be a bottleneck in their day-to-day use. They don’t behave well in extreme tempera…

Frequency Tells Absolute Temperature

It is no secret that semiconductor junctions change their behavior with temperature, and you can use this fact to make a temperature sensor. The problem is that you have to calibrate each device fo…

Hackaday Links: November 6, 2022

Remember the chip shortage? We sure do, mainly because as far as we can tell, it’s still going on, at least judging by the fact that you can’t get a Raspberry Pi for love or money. But …

China's Semiconductor Industry 'Decapitated Overnight': What 'Annihilation Looks Like' - Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT), ASML Holding (NASDAQ:ASML)

The Biden administration unveiled a comprehensive strategy last week to move the U.S.

China's Semiconductor Industry 'Decapitated Overnight': What 'Annihilation Looks Like' - Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT), ASML Holding (NASDAQ:ASML)

The Biden administration unveiled a comprehensive strategy last week to move the U.S.

Copper: Rectifying AC A Century Ago

[Robert Murray-Smith] presents for us an interesting electronic device from years gone by, before the advent of Silicon semiconductors, the humble metal oxide rectifier. After the electronic dust h…

Shutdown of 3M plant may affect semiconductor sector: analysts - Focus Taiwan

Taipei, April 3 (CNA) The indefinite closure of 3M's semiconductor coolant plant in Belgium could have a major impact on the global semiconductor industry, which Taiwan has a leading role in, market analysts said Sunday.

ASML reports fire at its Berlin factory

ASML Holding NV on Monday said there has been a fire at a factory it owns in Berlin, Germany, adding that no one was injured and that it is too early to assess the impact on its operations.

What Goes Into A High Voltage Diode?

When we use an electronic component, we have some idea of what goes on inside it. We know that inside a transistor there’s a little piece of semiconductor with a junction made from differentl…