{"id":137309,"date":"2022-03-24T11:02:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T18:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/new-technique-opens-door-to-cheaper-semiconductors-higher-chip-yield"},"modified":"2022-03-24T11:02:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T18:02:50","slug":"new-technique-opens-door-to-cheaper-semiconductors-higher-chip-yield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/new-technique-opens-door-to-cheaper-semiconductors-higher-chip-yield","title":{"rendered":"New technique opens door to cheaper semiconductors, higher chip yield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-technique-opens-door-to-cheaper-semiconductors-higher-chip-yield3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from the NTU Singapore and the Korea Institute of Machinery &amp; Materials (KIMM) have developed a technique to create a highly uniform and scalable semiconductor wafer, paving the way to higher chip yield and more cost-efficient semiconductors.<\/p>\n<p>Left: Image of a six-inch silicon wafer with printed metal layers and its top-view scanning electron microscope image. Right: Image of the six-inch silicon wafer with nanowires and its cross-sectional scanning electron microscope image. (Image: NTU Singpore) <\/p>\n<p>Semiconductor chips commonly found in smart phones and computers are difficult and complex to make, requiring highly advanced machines and special environments to manufacture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the NTU Singapore and the Korea Institute of Machinery &amp; Materials (KIMM) have developed a technique to create a highly uniform and scalable semiconductor wafer, paving the way to higher chip yield and more cost-efficient semiconductors. Left: Image of a six-inch silicon wafer with printed metal layers and its top-view scanning electron microscope [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}