Shannon Davis

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Shannon, writes, edits and produces Semiconductor Digest’s news articles, email newsletters, blogs, webcasts, and social media posts. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Huntington University in Huntington, IN. In addition to her years of freelance business reporting, Shannon has also worked in marketing and public relations in the renewable energy and healthcare industries.

Terahertz Science Discloses the Ultrafast Photocarrier Dynamics in Carbon Nanotubes

A team of researchers from Osaka University, TU Wien, Nanyang Technological University, Rice University, University of Alberta and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale comes closer to unraveling the physics of quasiparticles in carbon nanotubes.

Intel Commits $50M with Pandemic Response Initiative to Combat Coronavirus

Today, Intel is pledging an additional $50 million in a pandemic response technology initiative to combat the coronavirus through accelerating access to technology at the point of patient care, speeding scientific research and ensuring access to online learning for students.

Advanced Memory from Advanced Materials

Researchers successfully demonstrated a method to switch a novel material between two different nonvolatile states at very high speeds and with great accuracy. The physical constituents of the device in question are significantly robust against external influences such as magnetic fields. These facts together mean a high-speed and high-capacity memory device could be created. Such a device would also be extremely energy efficient.

Photonic Microwave Generation Using On-Chip Optical Frequency Combs

In recent years there has been significant progress on chip-scale frequency combs generated from nonlinear microresonators driven by continuous-wave lasers. These frequency combs rely on the formation of dissipative Kerr solitons, which are ultrashort coherent light pulses circulating inside optical microresonators. Because of this, these frequency combs are commonly called “soliton microcombs”.

US Manufacturing Partnership Supports COVID-19 Fight

As hospital capacities are being expanded to face the increasing number of COVID-19 patients, the demand for medical air compressors, vacuum systems, and medical gas pipeline is increasing as well. As a medical gas equipment manufacturer, Powerex is part of a critical infrastructure industry designated by the Department of Homeland Security; since Busch Vacuum Solutions is a key supply partner for Powerex, they are deemed critical infrastructure as well.

Pfeiffer Vacuum Showcases Hena 50 and Hena 70 Powerful Vacuum Pumps for Mass Spectrometer Systems

Hena 50 and 70 are single-stage, oil-sealed rotary vane pumps which were specially developed for the demanding requirements of mass spectrometer systems. They achieve pumping speeds of between 32 and 59 m³/h, depending on their size and speed of rotation. Their integrated oil mist separator ensures clean exhaust air. They are equipped with a frequency converter that enables them to be used worldwide with single-phase input and identical pump capacity for 50 and 60 Hz.

Choppy Waters for Shipping $50B of Semiconductor Materials in 2020

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy is creating choppy waters for shipping and supplying critical materials, as highlighted in recent Critical Materials Council (CMC) monthly meetings.

Nordic Semiconductor Joins ZBOSS Open Initiative

DSR Corporation announces that Nordic Semiconductor, a global leader in short range wireless and low power cellular IoT technologies, has joined the ZBOSS Open Initiative (ZOI), a community of companies with a shared understanding of the necessity to have a common Zigbee® PRO software platform to overcome, together, the challenges around interoperability, security, testing, and optimization of Zigbee®-enabled products and solutions.

Revenue Management Challenges Cost High Tech Companies Billions, According to New Model N Research

Model N, Inc. (NYSE: MODN), the leader in cloud revenue management solutions, today announced details of a new executive report, the “2020 State of Revenue,” created to examine revenue management trends in the high tech industry.

Global Semiconductor Capex Forecast to Drop 3% Again This Year

Using its “baseline” assumptions shown in the soon-to-be-released April Update to the 2020 edition of The McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry (MR20), IC Insights is not lowering its current -3% 2020 semiconductor industry capital spending forecast (Figure 1) due to the Covid-19 outbreak.