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SEMI Webcast to Review Industry Forecasts

01/04/2006  San Jose, CA — SEMI will host a live press briefing webcast from the SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS 2006), to take place January 8–11 in Half Moon Bay, CA. During the webcast, to be held January 9th from noon–1:00 p.m. PST, featured speakers from the conference will present forecast highlights and their outlook for the semiconductor, capital equipment, and electronic materials industries for 2006 and beyond.

Nanotechnology facility design -- Determining your needs

01/03/2006  January 3, 2006 -- /IEST/ -- ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. -- The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) continues to offer valuable online education classes. "Nanotechnology Facility Design ? Determining Your Needs," will be presented on Wednesday, March 15 at 11:00 AM Central Standard Time.

SEMI Posts Book-to-Bill Ratio for November '05

01/03/2006  San Jose, CA — On a 3-month average basis, semiconductor equipment manufacturers based in North America posted $1.09 billion in orders in November 2005 and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.92, according to SEMI's November 2005 Book-to-Bill Report.

Global Chip Sales Show Record Numbers in November '05

01/03/2006  San Jose, CA — Worldwide semiconductor sales reached a record $20.4 billion in November, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). These sales increased 7.2% from the $19.0 billion reported for November 2004, and were up 1.7% sequentially from the $20.1 billion reported in October.

NIOSH director to keynote CleanRooms CCT 2006

01/01/2006  Safe advancement of nanotechnology will be addressed

Conference track explores USP 797

01/01/2006  An important new program track entitled Hospital pharmacy compounding-Compliance challenges and USP 797 has been added to this year's CleanRooms Contamination Control Technology (CCT) conference program being presented this March in Boston.

CleanRooms Puerto Rico attracts island’s brightest and best

01/01/2006  The 2005 CleanRooms Puerto Rico Contamination Control Technology Conference and Exhibition posted record attendance last November at San Juan’s Wyndham Condado Plaza Hotel.

Small world, big challenges

01/01/2006  Nanotechnology is a major new force in the manufacture of products as diverse as car bumpers and drug-delivery micromachines.

New Products

01/01/2006  Each month, CleanRooms brings you a collection of the latest product innovations in the contamination-control industry.

Simple steps make complex patenting system manageable

01/01/2006  For embryonic technologies such as nanotechnology, intellectual property (IP) has become intricately complicated, like building at the nanoscale.

Inventor's Corner

01/01/2006  This invention relates to the decontamination of transfer containers for use with rapid transfer port (RTP) systems, which are used to transfer articles between two environments, such as an isolator barrier system and a transfer container, that are adapted to be brought into close proximity to one another by a docking operation.

Exciting news from current IEST contamination control working groups

01/01/2006  Newly graduated engineers, scientists and technicians working in the contamination-control, design, test and evaluation, and product reliability industries are discovering that

Final certification doesn’t have to be a hurdle

01/01/2006  What's the last thing on the schedule prior to start-up of a new cleanroom or controlled environment? It's normally the one thing given the least weight...

Still in business with you

01/01/2006  The title of this column in the January 1995 issue of CleanRooms was “In business with you.

What’s in a number?

01/01/2006  ISO cleanroom standards continue to give solid foundation to contamination-control community

Microscopic cleaning for cleanrooms

01/01/2006  Ultrasonic cleaning offers several advantages

Nano financiers aim to reinvent seed funds

01/01/2006  Can a pair of innovators get ahead of the angels and VCs?