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Why Reporting Nitrogen Trifluoride Matters
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol now requires nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), a chemical released in some high-tech industries including electronics manufacturing, to be included in GHG inventories under the Corporate Standard, Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard, and Product Standard. The amendment keeps the GHG Protocol’s reporting requirements aligned with those of the United Nations Framework Convention on […]
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Cobalt Bumping Tungsten?
There’s a problem with transistor gates at 5-nm and below. There’s simply not enough room for all the things in the metal stack used for contacting the gate. Let’s break that down, at least from the viewpoint of Applied Materials as described to me (and presented) at last fall’s IEDM show. In a simpler world, […]
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Cymer Qualifies and Ships New Argon Fluoride Light Source
San Diego, California, February 20, 2018 – Cymer, an industry leader in developing lithography light sources used by chipmakers to pattern advanced semiconductor chips, today announced the first shipment of the newly qualified XLR 800ix light source that improves performance and productivity, as well as lowers cost-of-ownership for leading-edge argon fluoride (ArF) immersion lithography systems. […]
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Acid fumes hospitalize UC Riverside student
A UC Riverside graduate student was hospitalized after he was exposed to hydrofluoric acid fumes in a science building, the Riverside County Department of Environmental Health said. The incident happened about 11 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, according to a discharge report that the county is required to release under the California Health and Safety Code. […]
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New Nitrogen trifluoride plant built in China. Gas used to etch silicon wafers
Excerpt: … Hyosung constructed a nitrogen trifluoride plant with the capacity of 13 million tons in March and a spandex plant with the capacity of 16,000 tons in May, both in Quzhou County, China. Nitrogen trifluoride is gas used to etch silicon wafers. Hyosung’s advance to China was what Cho Hyun Joon Chairman intended. Hyosung […]
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Showa Denko (SDK) to Raise Prices of High-Purity Fluorine-Based Gases for Electronics
TOKYO, Aug 1, 2017 – (JCN Newswire) – Showa Denko (‘SDK’; TSE:4004) has decided to increase prices of its high-purity fluorine-based gases for electronics. Specifically, SDK will increase prices of high-purity FC-116 (C2F6) and FC-14 (CF4) gases by about 500 yen (US$4.5) per kilogram each as from shipments on September 1, 2017. SDK will start […]
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11 people taken to hospital after Kallang Way chemical leak
SINGAPORE: Eleven workers had to be taken to hospital after a chemical leak on Tuesday (Jul 18) at a factory building at 166 Kallang Way. They were in a “conscious and stable condition” when they were taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital, said the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF). Channel NewsAsia understands that the workers complained […]
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Mr. Laminate Tells All: PTFE is About to be Banned by IEC TC111
There, I said it. Technical Committee 111 of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is preparing to effectively ban PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) materials from electronics. As history goes, the electronics industry has focused on only two of the four halogens (bromine and chlorine) to be limited in order to be called “halogen-free” or more accurately “low-halogen.” But […]
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Liquid carbon fluoride: Developers aim for Japan’s fastest supercomputer
Emerging supercomputer maker ExaScaler Inc. and Keio University are among those developing an original supercomputer. Their project is supported by a Japan Science and Technology Agency program that provides subsidies of up to ¥5 billion for promising technologies. The corporate-academic project team aims to achieve the fastest computing speed in Japan by June, which would […]
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Court says Prescott violated contract to treat metals plant wastewater
WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court Tuesday said Prescott breached its contract to treat wastewater from the Pure Wafer plant when it tried to get the plant to pay for the cost of meeting tougher state environmental regulations. A divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a lower court’s reasoning, […]
United States, Arizona Electronics Industry