06/04/2007 nCoat Inc. has landed a private investment deal worth almost $12 million. The company will net about $11 million in net proceeds after existing debt is converted into the new offering, nCoat said.
06/04/2007 June 4, 2007 - A roundup of news from the past week in Japan finds more delays in Canon/Toshiba's planned rollout of SED TV technology, new business frontiers from companies selling pure water systems, and researchers touting work with quantum dots and laser microscopes that plug into vacuum environments for materials analysis.
06/04/2007 The New York Times is reporting today that Harvard University plans to license more than 50 current and pending patents -- based on work in professor George Whitesides' lab -- to Nano-Terra LLC.
06/01/2007 May 15, 2007 -- Austin, TX -- Members of the International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI) have agreed to draft a "green fab standard" aimed at building semiconductor factories that will use less energy and water, minimize waste and air pollution, and ultimately save money for chipmakers.
Among the most significant developments in interconnect slated to appear at this month's International Interconnect Technology Conference (IITC, June 4-6, in Burlingame, CA) involve 3D chip architectures. Sitaram Arkalgud, director of SEMATECH's interconnect division and its newly created 3D interconnect initiative, calls 3D chip architecture his "new religion," because stacked chips allow interconnects to be much shorter than...
In emerging markets, essential ingredients for success, besides technological expertise and innovation, are patience and long-term vision. That's one of the lessons John Goodman, SVP and chief technology and innovation officer at Entegris, stressed during a discussion at the recent SEMI New England Breakfast Forum about his company's decision to enter the alternative energy market.
06/01/2007 By Mark Danna, Owens Design, Fremont, California, USA
Much has been written recently about the escalating cost of R&D funding required by semiconductor equipment OEMs in order to stay on the IC development trajectory required by the ITRS and Moore's Law. The gap in what is required and what can be supplied, based on the current OEM business model, has shown that this deficit could be as high as $9.3 billion by the year 2010 [1].
06/01/2007 June 1, 2007 - Japan's government-affiliated New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) says it has drawn circuit patterns with just 26nm linewidths (isolated and dense lines), which would vault Japan back among the frontrunners for achieving chip manufacturing at the 32nm node using EUV, according to local news reports.
06/01/2007 PROLITH has long been the most popular tool for optimizing lithography processes before exposure, enabling accurate simulations on small circuit regions with a library of calibrated resist and other material parameters. But running it under Windows on a PC has always seemed too slow to help wavefront engineers optimize entire chip designs. To address this, KLA-Tencor has introduced LithoWare, a new Linux-based product enabling semiconductor circuit designers to run PROLITH on large server farms.
06/01/2007 Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with help from the U. of Maryland and Howard U., have devised a fabrication method that creates tiny ultraviolet light-emitting diodes from nanowires, and NIST says the technique is "well-suited" for scaling to commercial production.
06/01/2007 A case about a relatively simple gas pedal may have an enduring impact on nanotechnologists' ability to obtain and defend patents crucial to innovation and commercialization -- and may potentially serve to drive down the valuations of emerging technology firms, reports Small Times' Rich Acello.
06/01/2007 This month’s issue of CleanRooms magazine will receive special bonus distribution at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Summer Meeting and Exhibition in San Francisco, June 24-27.
06/01/2007 Compounding pharmacies, particularly those compounding sterile products, are increasingly under the regulatory eye. Once governed by a hodgepodge of state regulations, the industry has seen USP Chapter <797>: Pharmaceutical Compounding-Sterile Preparations emerge from an amorphous effort to standardize practices to the de facto industry standard in just a few years.
06/01/2007 People play a major role in generating particles inside a cleanroom. It is important that each member of the cleanroom team understands how personal hygiene and habits affect the cleanroom’s cleanliness.
06/01/2007 The year 1989 was an earth-shaking one, both literally and figuratively. An earthquake struck the San Francisco area during the third game of baseball’s World Series between the Giants and the Oakland Athletics.
The New York Times is reporting today that Harvard University plans to license more than 50 current and pending patents -- based on work in professor George Whitesides' lab -- to Nano-Terra LLC.