Semiconductors In The Electronics Industry

Semiconductors play a extensive part in the electronics industry such as mobile phones, video game consoles as well as in the military for high technologized weaponry. A semiconductor can be found in the hearts of our mobile devices, used to fabricate solar panel cells and to make LED lights and lasers as well as transistors. As its name suggests, a semiconductor is a material that conducts current, but only partially. The conductivity of a semiconductor is between an insulator, which has almost no conductivity, and a conductor, which has almost full conductivity. Most semiconductors are crystals made of certain materials, most commonly silicon or sometimes germanium.

MACRO AND NANO SCALE:

Silicon at a macro scale is a hard and very brittle crystalline solid with a blue-grey metallic lustre, it is a tetravalent metalloid and semiconductor, and are usually used commercially without being separated, and often with little processing of the natural minerals. Such use includes industrial construction with clays, silica sand, and stone. At standard temperature and pressure, silicon is a shiny semiconductor with a bluish-grey metallic lustre; as typical for semiconductors, its resistivity

The emerging drivers for the future are moving from 4K TVs to 8K Resolution TVs, wearable devices, and Smart Home products are among the emerging technology categories. The nanometers are decreasing by the year, therefore delivering more performance-per-watt. From computer and mobile chipsets with 45nm in 2008, to 10 nm in 2018, and 7nm in the near future of 2019. The 7nm chipset by TSMC delivers 20% more raw speed improvement and 40% less power consumption. The smaller the nanotechnology, the more room from the smaller and more efficient process can be used to achieve better computational performance and improved power