05/27/2009  MAY 27, 2009

05/21/2009  May 21, 2009: Washington Technology Center has awarded a grant to the University of Washington to support an advanced material research collaboration with Seattle-based Modumetal Inc. to develop a material for corrosion protection of ConocoPhillips' commercial sulfuric acid production pipelines.

05/18/2009  May 18, 2009: PolyOne Corp. and Zyvex Performance Materials have received a $4.9 million grant from the Ohio Third Frontier Commission that will fund further development and production of carbon-nanotube composites.

05/15/2009  May 15, 2009: Zymera will use Life Technologies' Qdot nanocrystals to create new, self-illuminating quantum dot products to improve in-vivo imaging, biomarker discovery and a growing number of biosensing applications.

05/13/2009  George G. Harman, a researcher at NIST, contributed enormously to wire bonding technology and helped transform a labor-intensive, manual procedure into the present automated, reliable process capable of producing hundreds of billions of packaged semiconductor devices/year. The IEEE honors him with the 2009 IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Award.

05/13/2009  May 13, 2009: Zyvex Performance Materials, has unveiled plans for a new boat to be made entirely with its next-generation carbon nanotube-enhanced Arovex material, to demonstrate what future boats are capable of when built with new nano-enhanced materials.

05/07/2009  By Fran

05/06/2009  IMEC researcher Pol Van Dorpe gives SST a look at the physics and structure behind a new method to integrate high-speed CMOS electronics and nanophotonic circuitry based on plasmonic effects, which has promise in applications from biosensing to thin-film solar cells.

05/05/2009  May 5, 2009: Microarray developer Illumina said it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against another microarray developer, Affymetrix.

05/05/2009  The superGRIP heatsink assembly from Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc. features a heatsink, phase-change interface material, and unique attachment system for mounting onto a wide range of hot -running BGA components. The novel design is said to require minimal space on a PCB and eliminates the need for thru holes in the board.

05/05/2009  DEK International has introduced ProFlow Evolution, it's next-generation ProFlow enclosed print head solution, to expand the system's capabilities to apply to a variety of applications including traditional solder paste printing, flux deposition, adhesives and encapsulant printing, solder spheres, thermal interface materials, and more.

05/04/2009  May 4, 2009: European independent nanoelectronics research consortium IMEC says it has developed a method to integrate high-speed CMOS electronics and nanophotonic circuitry based on plasmonic effects.

04/29/2009  April 29, 2009: Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a membrane-penetrating nanoneedle for the targeted delivery of one or more molecules into the cytoplasm or the nucleus of living cells, and be used as an electrochemical probe or optical biosensor.

04/29/2009  April 29, 2009: Scientists at Florida State University (FSU) will finally be able to clearly see what misoriented atoms are up to along the defects of the new materials that they are developing and how they relate to neighbors, with a new JEOL atomic resolution Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope to be delivered later this year.

04/23/2009  April 23, 2009: A water desalination industry publication is running warnings of potential dangers of nanoparticles used in developing desalination technologies.

04/21/2009  April 21, 2009: Nanocomp Technologies, a developer of energy saving performance materials and component products from carbon nanotubes (CNT), has been awarded two new contracts by the United States Air Force under the Department of Defense's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

04/20/2009  The market for chip tools is still awful, but a slowing in declines in tool orders may offer some hope, and what may be the first step in a long road back to an industry turnaround.

04/16/2009  Top exec Pascal Noronha tells PVWorld's Debra Vogler about Abound Solar's (nee AVA Solar) new production facility and its continuous in-line manufacturing process which generates a solar panel from glass in <2hrs, and how it all translates into <$1 manufacturing costs vs. sales.

04/13/2009  By Gene Dunn, Panasonic Factory Solutions of America
Plasma technology offers a dry cleaning process that uses ionized gasses in vacuum chambers to remove contaminants for improved yields in gold bonding processes. Additionally, Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) is a useful analytical technique for determining the elemental surface characteristics and the effectiveness of plasma treatment to remove contaminants. This article discussed both.

04/13/2009  April 13, 2009: Inlustra Technologies, a California-based startup spun out from gallium nitride (GaN) research laboratories at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has developed a scalable production process for nonpolar and semipolar GaN substrates.