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Simple heating step boosts pressure sensitivity in semiconductor materials eightfold
Piezoelectric devices are everywhere, and their market is steadily growing. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-59179-2 Stronger cell phone signals, more accurate sensors...
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Protection racket? Asian semiconductor giants fear looming tariffs
For chipmaking powerhouses South Korea and Taiwan, the consequences of possible US tariffs could be enormous. Inside one of South Korea’s oldest semiconductor...
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Semiconductor nanowires capture diffuse sunlight to split water and store energy as hydrogen
Credit: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c01824 A U of A engineering researcher is using sunlight and semiconductor catalysts to...
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Banned but not broken—how US policy is reshaping the global semiconductor landscape
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As U.S.–China tech tensions continue to mount, the semiconductor industry has become a focal point in a high-stakes geopolitical...
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Why a next-gen semiconductor doesn’t fall to pieces
Zetian Mi (left) discusses research with group members Samuel Yang, Danhao Wang and Jiangnan Liu (right) next to the molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)...
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Trump moves closer to semiconductor tariffs, floats pause on auto duties | Donald Trump
US president says he is looking at offering relief to automakers as they adjust their supply chains. United States President Donald Trump has...
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Ajinomoto pledges to invest millions to produce material that’s vital to semiconductor packaging
Ajinomoto is best known for MSG but it also makes semiconductor material It dominates production of the ABF insulating film used in GPUs...
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SoftBank to acquire US semiconductor firm Ampere for $6.5 billion
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain SoftBank Group said Wednesday that it had reached a deal to acquire US semiconductor firm Ampere for US $6.5...
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Lifetime of semiconductor processing equipment parts can be checked in real time
The real-time system for measuring the lifetime of plasma process components developed by KRISS. Credit: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS)...
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