02/20/2004 FEB. 19--FORT DETRICK, Md.--A civilian Army researcher is in isolation here after possibly being exposed to the Ebola virus, Army officials said.
02/20/2004 (February 20, 2004) San Jose, Calif.—North American-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.22 billion in orders in January 2004, according to SEMI, and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.18.
02/20/2004 Applied Microengineering Ltd., a U.K.-based MEMS equipment supplier, is giving up on its design house and foundry services and reverting to more traditional fabrication of MEMS chips, according to a news release.
02/20/2004 Vacuum cleaners that are self-directed, jogging suits that tell you when to run faster, robots that dance. The new millennium brought with it a focus on “smart” devices. Being able to sense rotational movement adds an extra layer of precision and smarts for more-complex next-generation systems – and this is where gyroscopes come into play.
02/20/2004 PHS MEMS, a Grenoble, France-based MEMS designer and manufacturer, has made a "crash landing," in the words of a news release issued today after the company closed its operations and began dismissing its 95 employees.
02/19/2004 February 19, 2004 - Researchers at UC-Berkeley have created a miniature detector for testing everything from agricultural toxins to DNA, built with familiar IC manufacturing techniques.
02/19/2004 February 19, 2004 - UK-based AML said it is abandoning the foundry model for fabricating MEMS devices, calling it a "flawed concept" and "not flexible enough" to meet its demands, and is reverting back to in-house fabrication.
02/19/2004 Silicon-germanium BiCMOS has been relegated to the status of a niche technology at Texas Instruments Inc., now that the Dallas-based company has demonstrated a single-chip CMOS concept for next-generation radio circuits used in cellular phones and other portable wireless applications.
02/19/2004 February 19, 2004 - Nikon Corp. and Tokyo Electron Ltd. are accelerating their co-development of 193nm immersion lithography tools with a sooner-than-expected mass production start date of late 2H05.
02/19/2004 February 19, 2004 - FSI International Inc., Chaska, MN, and SCP Global Technologies Inc., Boise, ID, have settled litigation alleging patent infringement of wafer processing technologies.
02/19/2004 Teravicta Technologies Inc., an Austin, Texas, developer of RF MEMS switches and integrated products, raised $6 million in a second round of funding, according to a news release.
02/19/2004 Toshiba Corp. has selected Analog Devices Inc.'s iMEMS accelerometer to provide tilting function for a new laptop computer, according to a news release.
02/19/2004 Quantum cryptography, which harnesses the curious physics of individual photons, puts the unique power of the nanoscale to work. Two small companies, New York-based MagiQ Technologies Inc. and id Quantique SA in Geneva are among the first firms to commercialize products that utilize quantum encryption. The approach is designed to make data sent over optical fiber virtually impossible to decode.
02/18/2004 February 18, 2004 - Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA, reported growing earnings and revenues in 1Q04, amid strong growth in orders and customers "regained confidence" in expanding capacity.
02/18/2004 FEB. 18--BOULDER, Colo.--Particle Measuring Systems, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of microcontamination monitoring equipment, today announced the acquisition of Molecular Analytics, Inc., a maker of molecular contamination monitoring devices.
02/18/2004 Evident Technologies has commercially launched quantum dot composites for use in photonics, light-emitting diodes, paints and other applications, according to a news release.
02/18/2004 Nanosys Inc. (Profile, News, Web), a Palo Alto, Calif., developer of semiconductor nanocrystal technologies, named Gregory Yurek to its board of directors, according to a news release.
02/18/2004 When Congress passed the $3.7 billion 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act last year, hopes blossomed among Oregon's academics. Among the bill's sponsors was their own senator, Democrat Ron Wyden. When the money begins to flow in 2005, Oregon will be ready. Researchers are moving from basic research to product tests in microtechnology-based energy, chemical and biological systems, along with nanomaterials and nanosurfaces.
02/18/2004 Dust Inc., a Berkeley, Calif., developer of low-power wireless mesh sensor networks, raised a $7 million first round of funding, according to a news release.
02/17/2004 February 17, 2004 - Nanometrics Inc., Milpitas, CA, has signed a deal to integrate its NanoOCD/DUV 9101b film thickness mapping module into Lam's CMP tool.
