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New Nanotech Research Facility to be Equipped with Gear from Oxford Instruments

Oxford Instruments, the high-technology tools and systems company, is pleased to announce that it has won an order for 9 process tool systems, worth a total in excess of £2.5m (~$5m), to equip a new cleanroom facil...

14 Dec 2007

JSR and IBM Join Forces to Collaborate on Next Generation Lithography and Self Assembly

JSR Micro, Inc., the United States operations of JSR Corporation of Tokyo, Japan, announced today that it has entered a joint research agreement with IBM to explore new technologies for emerging semiconductor materials a...

13 Dec 2007

IMEC Increases Performance of High-K Metal Gate Planar CMOS and FinFETs

At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IMEC reports significant progress in improving the performance of planar CMOS using hafnium-based high-k dielectrics and tantalum-carbide metal gates targeting the 32nm...

From IMEC 12 Dec 2007

Optical Nanotechnology Research Inspires Fractal Patterns on Exterior of University of Southampton's New Mountbatten Building

The fractal patterns seen on the University of Southampton's new Mountbatten Building were inspired by research on optical nanotechnology research in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) and the Optoe...

11 Dec 2007

Supercomputers on a Single Computer Chip on the way After IBM Researchers Use Light not Electricity in New Style Chips

Supercomputers that consist of thousands of individual processor "brains" connected by miles of copper wires could one day fit into a laptop PC, thanks in part to a breakthrough by IBM scientists announced toda...

7 Dec 2007

Surrey Nanosystem Appoint US Distributor for Carbon Nanotube Growth Tools

Surrey NanoSystems has appointed Axiom Resources Technologies (AxR) as its US representative. The agreement provides local technical support throughout North America for the company's novel low-temperature carbon nan...

29 Nov 2007

Microfabrication of Semiconductors Using Classic Equipment from 1957

A 1957 classic sits in the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) clean room. It’s not a Chevy, but a Veeco vacuum evaporator more than six feet tall and five feet wide. $$IMAGE$$ The evaporator, still in use...

27 Nov 2007

High Performance Field Effect Transistors Made at Room Temperature with Thin Films of Carbon 60

Using room-temperature processing, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have fabricated high-performance field effect transistors with thin films of Carbon 60, also known as fullerene. The ability to produc...

27 Nov 2007

New Head of Sales and Customer Support for Oxford Instruments Asian Plasma Technology Business

Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology, a business of the high technology tools and systems company Oxford Instruments plc (LSE: OXIG), has appointed Jeffrey Seah as its new Head of Sales and Customer Support for Asia. ...

23 Nov 2007

Fundamental Principles of Optical Lithography, the Science of Microfabrication

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Fundamental Principles of Optical Lithography: The Science of Microfabrication to their offering. The fabrication of an integrated circuit requires a variety of physi...

23 Nov 2007