08/01/2005 Boris Kobrin, Victor Fuentes, Srikanth Dasaradhi, Applied MicroStructures; Robert Ashurst, Carlo Carraro, Roya Maboudian, U. of California at Berkeley
Results of a surface modification technique called molecular vapor deposition (MVD) are presented. The method is an enhancement of a generic vapor deposition process of self-assembling monolayers (SAM) with various surface preparation techniques, precise dosing of vapor precursors, and temperature control...
08/01/2005 Nashua, N.H. — It could take years to play out, but the eventual outcome of a lawsuit filed in a Delaware court this summer could have a profound impact on the future of the semiconductor industry. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is suing Intel, the world's largest producer of microprocessors. AMD, Intel's chief rival, charges that the chip giant regularly uses aggressive marketing practices that exercise a monopoly-like hold on the business.
08/01/2005 San Jose, Calif. — June 2005's worldwide semiconductor sales reflected a slight decline to $18.0 billion, a 0.5% sequential decline from the $18.1 billion reported in May, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reports. However, June 2005 sales were up by 0.8% from the $17.8 billion reported in June 2004.
08/01/2005 Just a few miles down Route 3 from Brooks Automation, Millipore Corp. (www.millipore.com) has also been busy strengthening its global presence, acquiring a prominent aseptic-processing-tool developer in Sweden and a biotech contract-testing lab in the Netherlands.
08/01/2005 The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (www.iest.org), long active in helping to establish worldwide contamination-control standards for cleanrooms, will now have a voice on a newly created technical committee that will produce standards for emerging nanotechnology applications.
08/01/2005 Putting a new spin on the outsourcing of medical device research and development, equipment design company Foster-Miller (www.foster-miller.com) has unveiled a series of services designed to help medical device makers identify, target, design and manufacture successful and safe new products.
08/01/2005 In what president and CEO Edward Grady calls a “strategic combination,” Brooks Automation (www.brooks.com), which provides automation solutions for semiconductor manufacturing, has acquired vacuum-technology leader Helix Technology Corp. (www.helixtechnology.com).
08/01/2005 A maker of washable computer keyboards is urging healthcare and infectious-disease professionals to investigate the risk of harmful pathogens that take up residence at the workstation and are then transferred to patients.
08/01/2005 Regional deliveries of Praxair (www.praxair.com) industrial specialty gases used for semiconductor and laboratory calibration, as well as nitrogen for the food-freezing industry, plus other industrial and medical gases, are returning to normal following explosions and fire that tore through the company’s distribution facility here in late June.
08/01/2005 Millipore Corp. (www.millipore.com) has developed a custom-designed loop system linking two of its technologies for ultrapure water requirements in research being conducted by Allen Institute for Brain Science (AIBS; www.brainatlas.org).
08/01/2005 Gordon Ely, validation manager at Nelson Laboratories, has been named president-elect of the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST; www.iest.org) for 2005-2006.
08/01/2005 There’s no question that a lot of research money is being invested in the development of new nanotechnology-based devices, medicines, machines and ultimately products.
08/01/2005 With its durability, resistance to corrosion and high quality finish, powder coating has become a preferred finishing choice among both consumers and manufacturers, and good contamination-control techniques can ensure that a powder coating operation is producing the highest quality, defect-free finish possible.
