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World Biggest Semiconductor Foundry Orders Carl Zeiss Closed Loop Mask Repair and Verification Solution for 32nm Node

The World biggest semiconductor foundry from Taiwan has placed a combined order for the Mask Defect Repair System MeRiT® HR 32 and the Aerial Image Measurement System AIMS™ 32-193i from Carl Zeiss to prepare for the production of next generation high-end photomasks.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 30 Mar 2010

Imec and Partners Start Work on Project to Improve Solar Cell Efficiency Through Nanotechnology

Imec announces that it has started work, together with its project partners, on PRIMA, a project under the EU's 7th framework program for ICT (FP7). The project's goal is to improve the efficiency and cost of solar cells though the use of metallic nanostructures.

From IMEC 30 Mar 2010

John Wiley Releases Report on Delivery Technologies for Biopharmaceuticals

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/80e30e/delivery_technolog) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Delivery Technologies for Biopharmaceuticals: Peptides, Prot...

30 Mar 2010

AIXTRON Recieves Order for Black Magic Deposition System from Purdue University's Birck Nanotechnology Center

AIXTRON AG today announced an order for one Black Magic deposition system from Purdue University's Birck Nanotechnology Center in West Lafayette, IN, USA. The order is for a 2 inch wafer configuration system for the ...

From AIXTRON SE 30 Mar 2010

New RTL Synthesis Solution from Synopsys Shortens Design Schedules in 65nm Technologies

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today introduced Design Compiler® 2010, the latest RTL synthesis innovation within the Galaxy...

From Synopsys, Inc. 30 Mar 2010

MEMS Technology to be Featured at 2010 Globalpress Electronics Summit

Globalpress Connection, a global public relations agency for the high-tech industry, is set to hold its 8th annual Globalpress Electronics Summit from April 26 to 29, 2010, at the Chaminade Resort in Santa Cruz, Calif. P...

30 Mar 2010

Virginia Tech Professor Awarded for Cancer Therapy Research Using Nanotechnology

Preliminary research on cancer treatments using nanotechnology and laser therapy has led to a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for Marissa Nichole Rylander, Virginia Tech assistant professor jointly appointed in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Virginia Tech – Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (SBES).

30 Mar 2010

Applied Materials Introduces InVia System to Fabricate High Aspect Ratio TSVs

Applied Materials, Inc. today added to its extensive line of 3D chip packaging solutions with the launch of its Applied Producer® InVia™ dielectric deposition system.

From Applied Materials Inc. 30 Mar 2010

Applied Materials Launches New Pre-Clean Chamber for Sub-32nm Logic Devices

Applied Materials, Inc. today announced the semiconductor industry’s first integrated low temperature pre-clean for epitaxial (epi) applications which is available on its market-leading Applied Centura® RP Epi system.

From Applied Materials Inc. 30 Mar 2010

Applied Materials Unveils New Wafer Inspection System for 22nm Chips

Applied Materials, Inc. today unveiled its Applied UVision® 4 wafer inspection system, enabling chipmakers to detect yield-limiting defects in the critical patterning layers of 22nm and below logic and memory devices.

From Applied Materials Inc. 30 Mar 2010

New Mathematical Model to Predict Crack Patterns in Microscopic Structures

For the first time ever, a study of this new mathematical model published in Nature has managed to describe the fracture process for materials such as glass, polymers, concrete, ceramics, metals, rocks, and even certain geological fractures.

30 Mar 2010

New Multiskan GO Spectrophotometer for Photometric Research

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today introduced the new Thermo Scientific Multiskan GO UV-Vis spectrophotometer offering free wavelength selection for both 96- and 384-well plates and various types of cuvettes.

30 Mar 2010

Physicists and Nanotechnology Researchers Will Explore Future of their Discipline at "Frontiers in Physics"

Five prominent physicists from leading U.S. and European universities will explore the future of their discipline at "Frontiers in Physics," a daylong symposium presented by the Physics Department at The City C...

29 Mar 2010

World's Smallest Superconductor Less than 1 Nanometer Wide

The Ohio University-led study, published Sunday as an advance online publication in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, provides the first evidence that nanoscale molecular superconducting wires can be fabricated, which could be used for nanoscale electronic devices and energy applications.

29 Mar 2010

ASU Lincoln Professor to Discuss Risk Management of Nanotechnology

Professor Gary Marchant, Executive Director of the Center for Law, Science + Innovation at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, will deliver a keynote speech on Tuesday, March 30, at a national nanotechnology conference in Arlington, Va.

29 Mar 2010