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NSF awards $402,000 to Oregon nanofab center

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.

Hospital Hygiene: Keeping hospitals clean but not sterile

09/01/2004  Standards for contamination and infection control are getting tougher, because a trip to the hospital shouldn't make you sick

Embedded temperature metrology design reduces wafer contamination

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.

Cleanrooms helping to advance medical device coating technology

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.

Protein purification technologies may speed drug discoveries

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.

International Sematech broadens semi R&D services

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.

FDA recommends strict ozone validation

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.

One nanoview

09/01/2004  There's no question about it. The future is nanotechnology. Just this year, worldwide expenditures in nano-technology R&D will reach $8.6B.

FFUs: Setting a course for energy efficiency

09/01/2004  Development of a testing standard for fan filter units will go a long way in improving energy efficiency in cleanrooms

Biosafety Facilities: War on terror gives rise to new "clean" facilities

09/01/2004  Increased funding for research into treatments, antidotes and vaccines against bioterrorism agents has sparked a building boom for biosafety facilities

Flux Inspection with UV Fluorescence AOI

09/01/2004  Making the Invisible Visible

Cleaning agents

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.

Software: Design Tool, Product Differentiator

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.

SiP Technology Offers Packaging Alternatives for Design

09/01/2004  Integrating Technologies and Reducing Costs

Optical Packaging

09/01/2004  SILICON HOUSINGS CHANGE MANUFACTURE OF OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER SUBASSEMBLIES

Standard Open Tool Packages for MEMS-enabled Products

09/01/2004  MEMS DESIGN SOFTWARE SPEEDS PRODUCTION

Stud Bumping and Die Attach for Expanded Flip Chip Applications

09/01/2004  SUPPORT FOR TODAY'S EMERGING APPLICATIONS

Lead-free Solder Wafer Bumping

09/01/2004  OVEN CONTROL AND SOLDER MATERIAL CONSISTENCY ARE CRITICAL

When Companies Acquire Companies

09/01/2004  There are lots of reasons why companies buy other companies.