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Worldwide semiconductor revenue is expected to decline by 22 percent this year, market research firm Gartner said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news162748561.html Technology Thu, 28 May 2009 16:56:27 EST news162748561 (PhysOrg.com) -- Sharp Corporation has announced the development of a new 500 mW semiconductor laser for triple- and quadruple- layer Blu-ray discs. http://www.physorg.com/news172481493.html Technology Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:10:01 EST news172481493 Worldwide semiconductor revenue is expected to decline by more than 11 percent in 2009 over last year, less than previously forecast, market research firm Gartner said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news177618729.html Technology Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:33:54 EST news177618729 Worldwide semiconductor revenue is expected to decline 17.1 percent this year compared with last year, market research firm Gartner said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news170503731.html Technology Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:40:01 EST news170503731 Global semiconductor sales declined 25 percent in April compared with a year ago but rose 6.4 percent over the previous month, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news163072566.html Technology Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:56:46 EST news163072566 Researchers at the University of Chicago and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed an "electronic glue" that could accelerate advances in semiconductor-based technologies, including solar cells and thermoelectric devices that convert sun light and waste heat, respectively, into useful electrical energy. http://www.physorg.com/news163949686.html Technology Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:35:18 EST news163949686 (PhysOrg.com) -- Batteries can power anything from small sensors to large systems. While scientists are finding ways to make them smaller but even more powerful, problems can arise when these batteries are much larger and heavier than the devices themselves. University of Missouri researchers are developing a nuclear energy source that is smaller, lighter and more efficient. http://www.physorg.com/news174139641.html Technology Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:07:57 EST news174139641 Dutch computer chip equipment maker ASML announced net losses for the first quarter after a collapse in sales, but said it saw signs of improving market conditions. http://www.physorg.com/news166855411.html Technology Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:10:01 EST news166855411 Taiwan's chip makers, powerful drivers of growth on the island, may have survived their worst crisis ever, but lacklustre sales and new rivals still make these risky times. http://www.physorg.com/news172300918.html Technology Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:40:01 EST news172300918 New research by a team of University of Toronto scientists could lead to substantial advancements in the performance of a variety of electronic devices including digital cameras. http://www.physorg.com/news164553830.html Technology Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:40:02 EST news164553830 A minor business conglomerate in South Korea looks set to buy a major stake in the world's second biggest memory chip maker after becoming the only firm to submit a bid, a report said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news172819765.html Technology Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:00:02 EST news172819765 (PhysOrg.com) -- One of the drawbacks associated with using semiconductor lasers is that many of them can only produce a beam of a single wavelength, and can only send that beam in one direction at a time. There have been efforts to tune lasers so that different wavelengths can be achieved, but these lasers still emit light only in one direction, and one wavelength at a given time. All that could change, though. Harvard University scientists Federico Capasso and Nanfang Yu , in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have been working with an international team to develop a laser that offers multibeam emission. http://www.physorg.com/news177582639.html Physics Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:50:01 EST news177582639 (PhysOrg.com) -- Today, scientists at IBM Research and the California Institute of Technology announced a scientific advancement that could be a major breakthrough in enabling the semiconductor industry to pack more power and speed into tiny computer chips, while making them more energy efficient and less expensive to manufacture. http://www.physorg.com/news169796309.html Nanotechnology Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:39:11 EST news169796309 (AP) -- Tessera Technologies Inc. said Wednesday that it won a patent dispute over small-format semiconductor packaging products, with the International Trade Commission issuing a cease-and-desist order against rivals Motorola Inc., Qualcomm Inc., Freescale Semiconductor Inc. and Spansion Inc. http://www.physorg.com/news162109960.html Technology Thu, 21 May 2009 07:33:23 EST news162109960 (PhysOrg.com) -- The first artificial graphene has been created at the NEST laboratory of the Italian Institute for the Physics of Matter (INFM-CNR) in Pisa. It is sculpted on the surface of a gallium-arsenide semiconductor, to which it grants the extraordinary properties of the original graphene. Published as a Rapid Communication on Phys.Rev.B, the research has been highlighted by the American Physical Society. http://www.physorg.com/news167052354.html Nanotechnology Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:26:41 EST news167052354