07/31/2008 July 31, 2008 -- Nanogate and its cooperation partner ALRON, a Swedish manufacturer of special chemical products for the construction industry, will coat the city of Stockholm's tunnel system, with Nanogate Technology, a nano-based product that repels dirt and grime.
07/31/2008 Fabs have historically relied upon optical inspection as a robust, reliable, well-understood technique to find all kinds of defects, but shrinking feature sizes and more demanding surface cleanliness requirements are exposing its limits. Enter Qcept Technologies, which says its technique can identify defects by measuring changes in work function.
07/30/2008 After several years of 40%-50% growth, the market for silicon-on-insulator (SOI) watched sales sink to nearly flat growth in 2007, and despite a projected spike over the next two years annual growth will barely be 10% by 2012, according to data from VLSI Research.
07/30/2008 There's a lot of optimism and interest crowding the photovoltaic space, and this was certainly the case witnessed at several Intersolar presentations during SEMICON West, offering different takes on the direction of the PV market. The first of these offered a decidedly contrarian view about the future (or lack of it) for many PV businesses.
07/29/2008 India's International Centre for Material Science (ICMS) in Bangalore has selected FEI Company and its Mumbai-based agent, Icon Analytical Equipment Private Ltd., to develop a unique electron microscopy facility in India.
The ICMS Imaging Centre will reportedly include a suite of FEI electron microscopes.
07/29/2008 July 30, 2008 -- The Innovation Society announced launch of the official project website. FramingNano is an FP7 funded two-year project aimed at building a deliberative process amongst nanotechnology stakeholders in order to inform the development of a future EU governance framework for the responsible and safe development of nanotechnologies
07/29/2008 July 30, 2008 -- Innovative Solutions Bulgaria Ltd.'s BudgetSensors, a Bulgarian manufacturer of silicon and silicon nitride probes, and AFM accessories for Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM), has commercially introduced its All-In-One AFM Probe a silicon AFM probe with four cantilevers on a single holder chip.
07/29/2008 July 29, 2008 -- The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, a non-profit, research and development lab, is establishing a BioMEMS R&D Center at the University of South Florida in Tampa, and a Multi Chip Module (MCM) Center in St. Petersburg.
07/29/2008 Susan Felch, principal member of Spansion's frontend development staff, summarized recent work regarding ultrashallow junctions at the West Coast Junction Technology Group meeting held in conjunction with SEMICON West (July 17) in San Francisco.
07/28/2008 July 28, 2008 -- NanoViricides, Inc., has added Japanese ophthalmologist and corneal researcher, Kazuo Tsubota, MD, PhD, to its scientific advisory board. Dr. Tsubota is currently professor and chairman of the department of ophthalmology at Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo, Japan.
07/28/2008 The Health Protection Agency's Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards (CRCE) at Chilton, Oxfordshire, UK is to be the site of a new center for experimental toxicology research examining possible health effects of human exposure to nanoparticles: the National Nanotoxicology Research Centre (NNRC).
07/28/2008 July 28, 2008 -- Acutronics USA has released its AC217 two-axis motion table, a new product aimed at providing manufacturers of inertial MEMS devices and inertial MEMS-based products a cost effective solution for product testing.
07/25/2008 Following its acquisition of the Adhesives and Electronics Materials businesses from National Starch and Chemical Company, Henkel has announced its executive team to take the company forward. Under the direction of Alan Syzdek, corporate senior V.P. the electronics group of Henkel will be organized on a global basis by industry sector.
07/25/2008 The International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI) will bring together leaders from industry and academia September 22-23 to identify and prioritize areas where the electronics industry can collaborate on proactive environmental programs.
07/25/2008 Double patterning was the talk of the litho panels during SEMICON West and in pitches by top scanner makers ASML, Canon, and Nikon -- but still none have evolved their tools to offer the required overlay capability, with throughput sufficient to be profitable. Even the closest one of the bunch is billed as the "ultimate" single-patterning tool.
07/24/2008 J P Sercel Associates (JPSA) and DynTest Technologies of Grassau, Germany, have entered into a collaborative partnership reportedly to develop and manufacture high-precision scriber / breaker solutions for wafer singulation. DynTest specializes in precise, accurate, and efficient breaking systems, while JPSA specializes in high-speed, high-accuracy laser workstations for wafer scribing.
07/24/2008 Execs from ASML and Applied Materials tell SST what's driving the re-emergence of memory as a driver for IC manufacturing, and how this trend is impacting development and adoption of new technologies such as double-patterning and EUV lithography.
07/24/2008 July 24, 2008 -- A new report from Lux Research finds that nanotechnology has become pervasive in a wide range of industries, with $147 billion worth of nano-enabled products produced in 2007 a figure set to grow to $3.1 trillion in 2015.
07/24/2008 July 24, 2008 -- Applied Nanoscience Inc. (ANI), a nanotechnology-based filtration development company, has been issued a patent in New Zealand for its core technology platform encompassing "Filtering Devices Incorporating Nanoparticles."
07/24/2008 July 24, 2008 -- The FlexTech Alliance (formerly known as the U.S. Display Consortium, or USDC)announced a contract with Lehigh University's Display Research Laboratory, which will investigate the suitability of a number of different metal foils for use in the manufacture of flexible display backplanes.
