Great article in the Financial Times, “The US chip industry starts to wake up to new competitive reality” about why new material solutions, like Atomera’s MST, are needed in the semiconductor industry. DARPA has decided to help find solutions by dedicating $1.5B to funding investigations into new chip architectures, materials, and design techniques. The article […]
News Highlights Researchers at Notre Dame University find 2.7x lower gate leakage and 23% improvement in mobility. Company confirms recent data on its Q=quantum engineered material Atomera’s MST is currently being evaluated by foundries and integrated device manufacturers. LOS GATOS, Calif., July 23, 2018 – Atomera (NASDAQ: ATOM), a semiconductor materials and intellectual property […]
June 4, 2018 https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/devices/atomera-plans-to-breathe-new-life-into-older-chip-manufacturing
Today Atomera added five new papers to our website showing, in more detail, how MST improves performance in semiconductors. Each of the papers was written in conjunction with a leading expert in the field and peer reviewed before publication by the IEEE or the AIP. The papers examine MST’s effects on SRAMs, FinFets, shallow junctions and […]
At December’s IEEE IEDM conference in San Francisco, Atomera held a very well attended event to discuss semiconductor variability and how to mitigate it. Three speakers gave very interesting talks including: Mitigation of Intrinsic Vt Variation using Oxygen Inserted (OI) Silicon Channel by Professor Suman Data – Frank M. Freimann Chair of Engineering at the University […]
Today another customer moved into Atomera’s evaluation stage which means they are building and testing wafers to determine how much MST can improve their product. With the addition of this new customer, Atomera is now in trials with five potential licensees. In this industry “seeing is believing” so running wafers is a critical step before customers can make license […]
In its pure state, silicon is a dull grey crystalline material and a poor conductor of electric current. Yet, with the addition of small quantities of certain impurity atoms, also referred to as electrical dopants, it can be transformed into a plethora of electronic devices, making silicon the foundation of the $350B semiconductor industry. […]
Startup Atomera has had a rough ride since coming public last year, but its novel technology to improve semiconductors bears watching. By inserting a film of oxygen atoms in chips during manufacturing, the company promises to improve performance and reduce energy consumption of chips without the tremendous cost needed to move parts to the latest […]
Welcome to Atomera’s new Blog. We hope to use this forum to provide insight into our company and our connection to some of the biggest developments in the semiconductor industry. To kick it off, we will explore in more detail how Mears Silicon Technology, or MST, fits the with the larger trend of the slowdown […]
