Balancing yield and test is essential to semiconductor manufacturing, but it’s becoming harder to determine how much weight to give one versus the other as chips become more specialized for different ...

No irrigation system can distribute water perfectly evenly across an entire field. Center pivot irrigation involves a powered structure that rotates a steel pipe with sprinklers to water crops. But ...

A patent-pending indentation method gathers data on a range of materials for which it was previously unobtainable Using Nanovea’s Mechanical Tester in indentation mode, with a cylindrical flat tip, it ...

Parallel test is used for nearly every device produced by fabs and OSATs, but it can reduce yield and increase the cost of test boards and operations. This is a well-understood tradeoff for ensuring ...

Learning how to improve IC-fabrication yields through analysis of production test can be extremely valuable. The combination of Synopsys’ Odyssey design-for-test (DFT) module and its TetraMAX ...

SK Hynix has reportedly reached a significant milestone in its pre-production trials by raising the yield rate of its sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) to 70%. This achievement strengthens ...

A study in Kagoshima, Japan has shown that the latest generation of TOPCon modules has surpassed p-type BC modules on energy yield during the initial month of a 1-year testing period, with an average ...

JA Solar and TÜV Nord have reported the results of a one-year energy yield test carried out at the CPVT National Photovoltaic Experimental Base at Yinchuan. The aim of the test was to study and verify ...

JinkoSolar’s n-type TOPCon modules have been found to deliver significantly higher energy yield per watt compared to n-type BC modules during a three-month field test. The field test, conducted by TÜV ...