Kanthal will sell its semiconductor capital equipment business to Yield Engineering Systems Inc. (YES) of Fremont, Calif. Kanthal will continue to produce its semiconductor and solar-related, resistance-based cassettes and heating elements.

Ceco Environmental Corp. has been awarded a large-scale project to provide equipment to help a global semiconductor chip manufacturer meet or exceed safety and environmental requirements by removing harmful gaseous contaminants.

VELO3D and Lam Research Corp. announced a joint development agreement that includes collaboration on novel materials and designs in metal additive manufacturing (AM) for the semiconductor industry. Lam Research plans to significantly increase the volume of parts produced by AM over the next five years.

University of Utah metallurgists used an old microwave oven to produce a nanocrystal semiconductor using cheap, abundant and less-toxic metals than other semiconductors.

Pressure transient insensitive (PTI) mass flow controller is designed for semiconductor manufacturing.

Research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor suggests that paint-on plastic electronics, made possible by smarter semiconducting polymers, could someday be used for making electronics of all sizes such as LED displays or light-absorbing coatings for solar cells.