02/01/2007 DesignCon, held January 29–February 1, 2007, in Santa Clara, highlighted several products and services introduced to advance the packaging industry. The show also hosted the DesignVision awards and a two-day business forum, and closes with half-day technical programs.
02/01/2007 January 25, 2007 -- /IEST/ -- ROLLING MEADOWS, IL -- Registrants will receive a complimentary copy of IEST-RP-CC023.3: Microorganisms in Cleanrooms with their attendance at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) online education class "Biocontamination Control -- An Applicable Approach."
02/01/2007 January 31, 2007 -- /PRNewswire/ -- OYAMA, Japan -- Gigaphoton Inc., a major lithography light source manufacturer for the global semiconductor industry, announced today that it has completed construction of a new building at its headquarters campus.
02/01/2007 February 1, 2007 - Intel Corp. is reportedly taking part in a $106 million private equity investment in Taiwan's most profitable chip assembly firm, Powertech Technology Inc., with an announcement planned for sometime in 1H07, according to the Taiwan Economic News.
02/01/2007 February 1, 2007- Spansion Inc. says it has completed the transition of migrating from 200mm to 300mm wafer processing at its Submicron Development Center R&D facility in Sunnyvale, what the company claims is the state's first 300mm R&D facility, and the only Silicon Valley company with 300mm flash memory in development.
02/01/2007 Imago Scientific Instruments, a Madison, WI microscopy company, announced the shipment and installation of four of its LEAP® microscope systems, including the initial installations of Imago's new 3000X Si system. The company reports that its LEAP microscopy provides high-sensitivity, quantitative 3D compositional imaging and analysis with atomic resolution.
02/01/2007 This is the first year Small Times attended the NanoBusiness Alliances' public policy tour in Washington, DC. If you didn't attend, you missed out. Are you concerned about EH&S? Research incentives? Early-stage funding? Sarbanes-Oxley? Are you helping to shape the nano political agendaÂ…
02/01/2007 HelioVolt Corporation and Exeltech today announced a joint development agreement to commercialize turnkey systems for cost-effective, reliable solar energy generation. The collaboration will draw on HelioVolt's proprietary FASST™ technology for rapid CIGS thin-film production and Exeltech's core competencies in high performance AC power system design and manufacture.
02/01/2007 U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Richard Burr (R-NC) and U.S. Reps. Bart Gordon (D-TN) and Ralph Hall (R-TX) today kicked off a new year for the Congressional Nanotechnology Caucus by announcing a lecture series for congressional staffers designed to educate them about the enormous potential that nanotechnology holds and the challenges that must be overcome to fully realize that promise.
02/01/2007 Applied Mechanical Corporation (Austin, TX), provider of outsourced technical, engineering and project management services to the semiconductor industry, has announced its acquisition of Phoenix-based Cleanroom Sciences (CRS).
02/01/2007 Fabrinet, provider of manufacturing services for complex optical components, recently announced that its third and latest factory, completed in Nov 2005, is near capacity.
02/01/2007 Last month I spoke about the relative role of tool manufacturers in the quest for efficient contamination control in the manufacture of ever more sensitive microelectronics.
02/01/2007 ESTECH, the IEST’s 53rd annual technical meeting and exposition, will take place April 29-May 2 at the Indian Lakes Resort in Bloomingdale, Illinois.
02/01/2007 The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) has released its latest technical publication, ISPE Good Practice Guide: Commissioning and Qualification of Pharmaceutical Water and Steam Systems.
02/01/2007 A few years ago, members from across the food industry did something radical: They set aside competition and worked together to find better ways to battle contamination in food processing facilities.
02/01/2007 Every cleanroom or special environment utilizes some type of control system to operate the mechanical equipment that maintains the environment.
02/01/2007 Clean-in-place, commonly referred to as CIP, is an automated method of cleaning processing equipment without disassembly using validated procedures.
02/01/2007 Pass-throughs specifically designed for clean processing environments can help prevent contamination events from occurring as a result of the transfer of product or equipment from one area to another.
02/01/2007 Airborne molecular contamination (AMC) is non-particulate chemical contamination in the form of vapors or aerosols that has a detrimental effect on a product or process. The need for AMC control in cleanrooms continues to grow as technology advances.
