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Mitsubishi Electric to Increase Wafer Production Capacity for Power Devices

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today it plans to invest 6.5 billion yen to expand its wafer production capacity for power devices by approximately 2.5 times that of the previous fiscal year. The expansion, to be conducted in several stages, will be completed by April 2011.

15 Jul 2010

New Light Source from Cymer Enables Chipmakers to Boost Wafer Output

Cymer, Inc. (NASDAQ:CYMI) , the market's leading developer of light sources used to pattern advanced semiconductor chips, announced today the introduction of the ELS(TM) 7010x, the world's first field-selectable 30 ...

From Cymer, Inc. 15 Jul 2010

TI to Acquire Two Wafer Fabs in Japan

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) said today it will purchase two wafer fabs and manufacturing equipment located in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan. The assets currently are operated by Spansion Japan Limited (SJL) and are being acquired under a court-approved plan of reorganization.

15 Jul 2010

John Wiley’s New Book on Quantum Wells, Wires, and Dots

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/34d17d/quantum_wells_wir) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Quantum Wells, Wires and Dots: Theoretical and Computation...

15 Jul 2010

Shrink Nanotechnologies Announces Filing of Patent Application for CellAlign Platform

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc., an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the solar energy production, medical diagnostics and sensors and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, announced today that certain patent applications related to its advanced tissue engineering technology platform, CellAlign™, have been filed.

15 Jul 2010

Nanotube Speakers Can Probe Ocean Depths

Speakers made from carbon nanotube sheets that are a fraction of the width of a human hair can both generate sound and cancel out noise -- properties ideal for submarine sonar to probe the ocean depths and make subs invisible to enemies.

15 Jul 2010

Nano-Based Drug Delivery to be Discussed at AAPM’s 52nd Annual Meeting

The 52nd meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) convenes from July18 - 22, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA. AAPM is the premier organization in medical physics, a broadly-based scientific a...

15 Jul 2010

Lockheed Martin-Sandia Team Honored for Contribution in Developing Nano Coatings

R&D Magazine has named Lockheed Martin and Sandia National Laboratories' research on multifunctional optical coatings as one of the 100 greatest technologies introduced this year.

15 Jul 2010

Toshiba Builds New Fabrication Facility in Mie Prefecture, Japan

Toshiba Corporation (Tokyo: 6502) today announced that it has started construction of a state-of-the-art fabrication facility (fab), Fab 5, at Yokkaichi Operations, its memory production facility in Mie Prefecture, with ...

15 Jul 2010

Trapped Rainbow of Light May Find Application in On-Chip Spectroscopy

Over the past decade, scientists have succeeded in slowing pulses of light down to zero speed by letting separate frequency components of the pulse conspire in such a way that a receptive medium through which the pulse is passing can host the information stored in the pulse but not actually absorb the pulse's energy.

15 Jul 2010

New Model Describing Polymer Movement Inside Nanopores

The movement of long chain polymers through nanopores is a key part of many biological processes, including the transport of RNA, DNA, and proteins.

15 Jul 2010

ADT Secures SBIR Fund for Developing New Pad Conditioners

Advanced Diamond Technologies (ADT) received a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop the next generation of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) pad conditioners for the semiconductor industry.

15 Jul 2010

Electron Flow in Unusual Materials Tracked Using Microscopy Technique

On a quest to discover new states of matter, a team of Princeton University scientists has found that electrons on the surface of specific materials act like miniature superheroes, relentlessly dodging the cliff-like obstacles of imperfect microsurfaces, sometimes moving straight through barriers.

15 Jul 2010

Scanning Tunneling Microscope Helps to Understand Non-Superconducting Electronic Phase

Scientists have been trying for some 20 years to understand why the low temperature at which copper-oxide superconductors carry current with no resistance can't be increased to be closer to room temperature.

15 Jul 2010

Breakthrough in Developing Quantum Nanowire

Rice University scientists have found the "ultimate" solvent for all kinds of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), a breakthrough that brings the creation of a highly conductive quantum nanowire ever closer.

15 Jul 2010