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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"foundries"”.
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Cash flow optimazation through inventory management improvements at Atlantis foundries
… A case study on castings manufacturer Atlantis Foundries (AF) located in Atlantis, South Africa, has been undertaken to prove a historical correlation between inventory developments and a deterioration in the net cash position. Based on that finding, a case specific set of key performance …
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Evaluating the technical and economic feasibility of large scale municipal solid waste to energy project in RSA - Atlantis Foundries anaerobic digestion project case study
… by evaluating the feasibility of Atlantis Foundries (AF) envisaged anaerobic digestion project. Following an audit on the AF site and consultations with AF and Anaergia (PTY) Ltd (the envisaged project technology provider), the most suitable project scenarios under various assumptions were …
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Monolithic Integration of Fluidics, Electronics, and Photonics using CMOS Foundry Processes
… CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) foundries have been successfully applied to next-generation sequencing systems to simultaneously lower the cost, miniaturize the footprint, and improve the throughput of the instrument. By utilizing CMOS foundries, designers are given access to …
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Improving the manufacturing yield of investment cast turbine blades through robust design
… blades is often outsourced to investment casting foundries by aerospace companies that design and build jet engines. Aerospace companies have found that casting defects are an important cost driver in the price that they pay the foundries for the turbine blades. Defect types include porosity, …
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Non-reciprocal light transmission in integrated photonic systems via acousto-optic interaction
… the required materials are not available in foundries; each operational wavelength band needs a different material; localization of magnetic field is difficult in PICs and can affect magnetically sensitive systems. One possible solution is the use of spatio-temporal modulation to produce …
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Use of competitive benchmarking information to improve equipment utilization and throughput in a semiconductor manufacturing system
… more common in the semiconductor industry. These foundries. as they are known in the industry, focus their efforts on achieving operational excellence in order to manufacture semiconductor products more cost effectively than their customers can internally. Intel has started using Foundries for …
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Reducing industrial energy costs through energy efficiency measures in the South African foundry industry - evaluation and opportunities of a South African foundry
… industry. A lack of research in South African foundries was identified as existing literature on the topic was analysed. A large foundry operating an induction furnace in the Western Cape served as subjects to investigate the topic specifically in South Africa. The aim was to identify the …
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Three-dimensional (3D) electronics by compressive buckling process
… A commercial chip from X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries is successfully placed onto a 2D precursor and formed into a 3D structure by the buckling method. With no limit or constraint on 3D structures, new advantages previously unintroduced from 2D electronic devices would be obtained from this …
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Sustainability performance analysis and decision-making for minerals beneficiation : a South African iron and steel scrap case study
… beneficiation of scrap in steel mills and/or foundries. The export of scrap metal has been identified as a significant concern to some, as it is viewed to come at the expense of local beneficiation, hampering access to affordable and quality scrap for local processors. As such, decision-makers …
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Optimizing inventory levels using financial, lifecycle and forecast variance data
… and test plans at the world's largest contract foundries and subcontractors. Finally, the 2006 acquisition of ATI by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) offers unforeseen flexibility, scale and challenges to the outsourced semiconductor supply chain.
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High-quality InP on GaAs
… commercial Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) growth foundries offer InP on GaAs for M-HEMT (Metamorphic High-Electron-Mobility Transistor) applications, the successful demonstration of InP-based, minority-carrier devices on bulk GaAs remains elusive. In this work InP on GaAs suitable for minority …
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Outsourcing trends in semiconductor industry
… to outsource their manufacturing to merchant foundries. Semiconductor companies have also started to outsource the design and verification of their chips to third party design service companies and focus on core competence like research and development of new technologies and defining …
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Additive Manufacturing Towards Electronically-Active Surfaces
… computing. To date, owing to the availability of foundries and scalable processing modalities, this has been achieved via fabrication of discrete elements which are then deterministically positioned throughout the world via pick-and-place assembly. Alternatively, availability of large-area, …
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Transistor-Level Programmable Fabric
… X 3mm TRAP chip was fabricated using the Global Foundries 55nm process. We show that TRAP has substantially better area efficiency compared to a leading industrial FPGA and would, therefore, be ideal for embedded FPGA (eFPGA) applications.
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TIME RESOLVED PROBING OF MAGNETO-ELASTIC EXCITATIONS IN MAGNETIC MATERIALS
… (IOM-CNR) and within the framework of Nanoscale Foundries and Fine Analysis (NFFA) consortium. My experimental activity addressed the coupling of magnetic and acoustic degrees of freedom in transition-metal ferromagnetic systems. Within the NFFA-SPRINT laboratory, hosted in the premises of the …
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DC magnetron reactive sputtering of low stress AlN piezoelectric thin films for MEMS application
… CMOS contaminant requirements for silicon IC foundries. In this work, AIN thin films were deposited on silicon for use in a MEMS ultrasonic resonator. The resonator is configured as a gravimetric chemical sensor. A rotatable central composite designed experiment was performed to optimize film …
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Technology and market evaluation for semiconductor nanowire transistors
… industry breakdown and top semiconductor foundries' financials reveal that scaling might not be pursued as aggressively as expected. The relevance of Moore's law in the current scheme of things could be that of a Self-fulfilling prophecy. Given this climate, Self Limiting Oxidation based …
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Compact modelling in RF CMOS technology
… (PDK) and the bridge between design houses and foundries. In this work, a novel substrate model is proposed for accurately characterizing the behaviour of RF-MOSFETs with deep n-wells (DNW). A simple test structure is presented to directly access the substrate parasitics from two-port …
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Thermoelectric properties of Si/SiC thin-film superlattices grown by ion beam sputtering
… heat including power plants, automobiles, and foundries. Most of these systems expel large amounts of waste heat to the environment that goes unused. One way of recovering the waste heat is to use a solid-state energy converter based on thermoelectric processes. Nano-scaled materials are of …
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TIME-DOMAIN INVESTIGATION OF ACOUSTICALLY AND THERMALLY DRIVEN MAGNONS
… delle Ricerche (CNR-IOM) within the Nanoscale Foundries and Fine Analysis (NFFA) facility. My experimental activity led to the implementation of a novel experimental setup within the NFFA-SPRINT laboratory in the premises of the FERMI@Elettra facility (Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste), and to the …
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