07/27/2012 

President Obama bestowed the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers upon 96 researchers. It is the highest honor from the US government for science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.

07/24/2012 

Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) recently named Jay Esfandyari, STMicroelectronics, as its MEMS Working Group chairman and Ken Potts, Cadence Design Systems, as the 3D IC Working Group chairman.

07/24/2012 

Yole updated its MEMS industry database, World MEMS Players 2012. The product includes contact information for MEMS players, geographical breakdown of the industry, and various MEMS device categories.

07/23/2012 

Goodrich Corporation (NYSE: GR) added 46,00sq.ft. to its high-tech manufacturing facility in Burnsville, MN, with advanced production, design and development areas for MEMS.

07/18/2012 

Purdue researchers have demonstrated self-calibrating MEMS, which enable higher accuracy for existing and new MEMS applications and could eliminate 30% of manufacturing costs by skipping test processes.

07/16/2012 

Kionix Inc., maker of MEMS accelerometers, added Paul Bryan as EVP of product management and strategy, and promoted Drake Margiotta in sales.

07/16/2012 

Oxford Instruments launched the PlasmaPro 100 etch and deposition tool for manufacturing MEMS, HB-LED, semiconductors, and other applications.

07/13/2012 

Terry Brewer, one of the newest members of SEMI's North American advisory board, talks about semiconductor industry consolidation, as well as new technologies and materials in the industry. He shares how SEMI is reacting to this evolution.

07/11/2012 

The MiQro Innovation Collaborative Centre (C2MI) is improving its state-of-the-art MEMS facility with Eyelit Manufacturing software to support R&D and the commercial activities of sponsor companies. C2MI is also installing a suite of new wafer processing tools from SPTS Technologies.

07/11/2012 

07/10/2012 

SUSS MicroTec uncrated the third generation of the ACS200 Coating and Developing Platform, developed from the company’s ACS200Plus and Gamma platforms for a compact, highly precise MEMS, LED, and related fab tool.

07/06/2012 

We at Solid State Technology have compiled the best conference reports so far this year, in the lead up to SEMICON West 2012, next week in San Francisco.

07/06/2012 

MEMS will continue to see steady, sustainable, double-digit growth for the next 6 years, with 20% compound average annual growth in units and 13% growth in revenues, to become a $21 billion market by 2017, according to Yole.

07/02/2012 

STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM) partnered with China’s Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) to open a joint laboratory researching electronics.

06/28/2012 

Paula Doe, SEMI Emerging Markets, shares the annual guide for navigating the MEMS events at SEMICON West, July 10-12 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.

06/27/2012 

Paula Doe, SEMI Emerging Markets, covers developments at Applied Materials, Coventor, and other members of the MEMS equipment supply chain that will make MEMS less expensive, smaller, and easier to manufacture.

06/27/2012 

Canon Inc. launched the FPA-3030i5+ i-line stepper for manufacturing MEMS and energy-efficient “green” devices such as power semiconductors in solar and wind applications and LEDs.

06/26/2012 

Edwards (NASDAQ:EVAC) introduced the new iXH645H dry pump, optimized for metal-organic chemical vapor deposition, a key step in LED and compound semiconductor manufacturing.

06/26/2012 

JP Sercel Associates Inc. released the IX-6168-PS picosecond-laser-based micromachining platform, using lasers with 5-500 picosecond pulse lengths.

06/25/2012 

Karen Lightman, MEMS Industry Group (MIG), reports on the group's pre-Sensors Expo symposium on MEMS. The coordination of equipment vendors, materials suppliers, foundries, device manufacturers, end-users, and OEMs is "music to her ears."