09/01/2004 The National Science Foundation has awarded University of Oregon $402,000 for a new electron beam lithography and nanoimprint lithography systems. UO is contributing $172,000 of the $574,000 price tag for the new equipment. UO Professors Mark Lonergan and Jim Hutchison were among the co-principal investigators listed on the grant application.
09/01/2004 For years, engineers at SensArray heard from their customers how much they wanted a wireless temperature measuring device that could run within a lithotrack to measure the real-time temperatures of the hotplates and heating elements—without having to manually access the wafer.
09/01/2004 Lonny Wolgemuth, medical market manager for Specialty Coating Systems (www.scscookson.com), cites the movie Field of Dreams when he talks about his company's recently finished 1,700 square-foot cleanroom.
09/01/2004 A series of protein purification kits has been unveiled by Pall Corp. (www.pall.com) to aid proteomic researchers in the development of new drug therapies.
09/01/2004 In a move designed to meet increasing research and development needs within the semiconductor industry, International Sematech (www.sematech.org) has established the Advanced Technology Development Facility, Inc. (ATDF) as an independent subsidiary of its R&D wafer fab and related analytical labs.
09/01/2004 Ozone treatments to reduce harmful pathogens during food processing and handling may be a good thing, but until proven, the Food and Drug Administration (www.fda.gov) is recommending that apple juice and cider processors establish their own documented validation study—or choose another treatment method.
09/01/2004 Increased funding for research into treatments, antidotes and vaccines against bioterrorism agents has sparked a building boom for biosafety facilities
09/01/2004 Cleaning agents are used on walls, ceilings, floors and equipment in the cleanroom. A well-rounded systematic approach to choosing, evaluating and using cleaning agents is critical to maintaining control of contamination.
09/01/2004 "Software" is of course a very broad topic, but design and simulation is probably what comes to mind most often when the term is used in our industry.