All Specialty Gases articles – Page 8
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NewsSemiconductor industry grows
Toshiba has announced an investment of YEN 1.5 trillion into 3D-NAND flash memory devices, representing the largest capital investment ever made by a single corporation of Japan, The Gas Review revealed.
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Helium supply tightening again
Exclusive: Midway through the second month of 2018, and helium markets are again experiencing tight supply conditions, according to Phil Kornbluth, President of Kornbluth Helium Consulting.
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Driving new electronics materials
Electronic Fluorocarbons (EFC), headquartered in Massachusetts, utilizes the latest technology for the purification and microanalysis of its legacy fluorinated specialty gases and rare gases for the medical and electronics semiconductor manufacturing industries.
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Dopant gases: Developments in storage and delivery
The electronics industry is entering a new period of clarity and confidence, gas world understands, as it converges with conviction on the technology roadmaps of its future. Like most other industries, however, the electronics sector is still under significant pressure to address increased process complexity, performance, and regulatory requirements.
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Creating a semiconductor
Gases have been a key enabler of the electronics industry since the first commercial transistors and integrated circuits were produced in the mid-twentieth century.
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Created by nature, upgraded by Cryoin
Cryoin Engineering is one of the leading global manufacturers of rare gases, as Joanna Sampson learns in an interview with Director Larisa Bondarenko.
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Electronics gases – The clarity and confidence driving consumption
Rewind 3 to 4 years, and much of the conjecture in the electronics business surrounded the next wave of expected technologies and wafer fabrication processes, from 450mm wafers to 14 nanometer (14nm) node transistors to lithographic patterning.
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The electronics gases business in China
In 2016, China manufactured 2.1 billion sets of mobile phone, a 13.6% increase from 1.81 billion sets in 2015, and a one billion units increase over five years. This is just a simple example of how the electronics industry in China is booming, at an astounding rate.
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Now trending
Happy New Year! We begin another 12 months of bringing our readers the very best in business intelligence with a review of the trends impacting the North American industrial gas industry. The writers and editors of gas world US are constantly in touch with industry leaders who work on the ...
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Ever-growing consumption in electronics gases
From perceived to being in something of a demand lull 5+ years ago, the electronics gases business is firmly in vogue right now, as the further expansion of Air Products’ supply to Samsung demonstrates.
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Electronic specialty gas usage increasing in after-processing
According to The Gas Review, dry etching is being used increasingly in manufacturing processes for mounting semiconductors and printed-circuit boards (PCBs) used in electronic devices.
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$44m China specialty gases investment approved
The Board of Directors of China’s Tangshan Sunfar Silicon Industries Co. Ltd has approved an investment plan of production of electronic specialty gases with an overall budget of RMB 287.24m ($44.5m).
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Beyond UHP gases
Driven by industry, the demand for higher purity gases seems to be never ending. It wasn’t that long ago that the packaging of UHP (Ultra High Purity, 99.999%) gases were generally reserved for a small percentage of the most sophisticated independent distributors and maybe not all branches of the major ...
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Sino-German strategic cooperation creates a new chapter for Pfeiffer Vacuum in China
Pfeiffer Vacuum has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Lanzhou Institute of Physics (LIP) in Asslar, Germany.
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New Air Products plant on-stream in China
Air Products’ new plant in eastern China has come on-stream to supply ultra-high purity gases to its customer in the park.
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Harris Calorific
The Harris Products Group, a Lincoln Electric Company, is one of the largest independent manufacturers of pressure and flow control equipment with over 100 years of tradition.
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The ever-changing rare gas market
As we head in to 2018, we look back on a very interesting changing market for krypton (Kr), xenon (Xe) and neon (Ne) in 2017. Ne supply this year continued to increase as new plants came on-stream while the demand was growing slowly after the big decline of 2016.
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Less is Moore
Electronics manufacturing is a highly complex sequence of adding and subtracting material, with the resulting sum yielding circuits sometimes less than one hundred atoms wide. For over 50 years, Moore’s Law has driven an industry to make smaller devices on larger scales.
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Securing the lab
Our laboratories are vital to research and development, as well as to the production of countless products. For many industrial gas distributors, supplying gases and related equipment to laboratories is an important part of their business.
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Specialty gases in the electronics and semiconductor industry
The roots of our digital lifestyles certainly are semiconductors, which allow for the creation of complex transistor structures. Semiconductors are crystalline or amorphous (non-crystalline) solids with distinct electrical characteristics.
