Table of Contents
Solid State Technology
Year 2007
Issue 1
 | OPINION
Column
Weight, not height, driving VC dollars
Disappointing. That sums up my opinion of the venture capital numbers for the first three quarters of 2006.
Legal Corner
Risks and rewards of accelerated examination:new procedures at the USPTO
An executive of an emerging nanotechnology company knows all too well the value that investors and others place on the early certainty a patent brings to being able to protect the company’s inventions.
Finance Corner
How to negotiate with an 800-pound gorilla
Early stage technology companies that enter partnerships such as original equipment manufacture or reseller agreements with industry 800-pound gorillas (further referred to as the ‘other party’) typically have little or no negotiating leverage.
Letter From The Editor
Dear reader,
I was stuck in Chicago recently on my way from PennWell’s corporate offices in Tulsa to do an interview in Albany.
|
|
FEATURES
Cover Story
Mainstream MEMS: monolithic or hybrid?
A recent spate of spectacular MEMS product developments aimed at large mainstream applications has kindled debate about MEMS’ suitability for high-volume CMOS manufacturing.
Cover Story
MEMS the word in consumer electronics
MEMS components have been in projectors since 1996 and in TVs since 2002, but the cell phone market is the latest, greatest frontier
Small World
Lego my nano
The world’s favorite building blocks company embraced the world of nanotech this year by making “Nano Quest” the theme for its FIRST Lego League (FLL) 2006 Challenge.
Qampa
FEI hitting its stride with new CEO
A year ago at this time, FEI was bleeding cash.
| |
TECHNOLOGY
Rampd Updates
Albany Nanotech opens 65nm line
Albany Nanotech put another notch in its belt when it qualified its 65nm semiconductor fabrication line in September.
Innovations
Stem cell sorting gets mega boost from micro technology
When research scientist Bruce E. Torbett is isolating stem cells from blood in his laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute’s Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, he relies on a hefty device that costs about $30,000.
Innovations
Mirkin group unveils 55k-pen DPN array
New array suggests throughput could eventually meet commercial needs
| |
SPECIAL-REPORTS
Survey
Survey says: Manufacturing, government keys to U.S. success
First-ever UMass Lowell-Small Times analysis explores nanotech industry priorities
Photonics
Making light of the small
Photonics and nanotechnology have a synergy rarely seen. But nano-optical devices are not prevalent in the marketplace, even though the academic labs churn out one breakthrough after another.
Sideways From Silicon
Printable electronics and photonic curing: high performance in a flash
The silicon industry has achieved stunning advances over its nearly 50 year history.
Sideways From Silicon
Milling a hardened micro mold
In an endless pursuit of the capabilities of micromachining, we often run across test cuts that are of interest.
Sideways From Silicon
Laser-based glass micromachining
The vast majority of microdevices are built out of silicon using photolithographic processes.
| |
BUSINESS-SENSE
Finance
Finance
State Rankings
State Rankings
The fourth category - innovation - of our state rankings shows a good deal of consistency in what is usually a very volatile category.
Regulatory Amp Ip Roundu
IP trolls: Fiction or reality? Friendly or devious?
In Scandinavian mythology, a troll is a mischievous dwarf that lives under a bridge.
Regulatory Amp Ip Roundu
Reports suggest new safety procedures
A trio of new reports outlined safety procedures nanotechnology labs and companies are practicing now and what research nanotechnologists should investigate over the next 15 years to help alleviate concerns about its risks.
Regulatory Amp Ip Roundu
Changing of the guard
Which Mr. Smith will go to Washington on nano’s behalf?
Regulatory Amp Ip Roundu
EPA regulates nano product, not nano industry
Legal experts say decision more about EPA policy revamp than nanotechnology
| |
|
