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IQ Aligner Selected for its UV Nanoimprint Lithography Capability

EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced that Heptagon Micro-Optics Pte Ltd. in Singapore -- a wholly-owned sub...

15 Jul 2008

Terasem Movement Announced Fourth Annual Workshop on Geoethical Nanotechnology

Terasem Movement, Inc. announced today its Fourth Annual Workshop on Geoethical Nanotechnology will be held Sunday, July 20, 2008 to honor the 39th anniversary of the first human lunar landing. The Workshop, accessible t...

15 Jul 2008

Qualcomm and IMEC to Develop Solutions for 3D Technologies in Future Wireless Products

IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute, and Qualcomm Incorporated, a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, today announced that Qualcomm ...

From IMEC 15 Jul 2008

Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology Launches Latest Customer Support Package

Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT), part of Oxford Instruments plc, is pleased to announce the recent launch of its latest customer support package, the 'Pre-Purchased Service Fund' scheme.

15 Jul 2008

Principles Behind Stability and Electronic Properties of Tiny Gold Nanoclusters

A report published in the July 8 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) is the first to describe the principles behind the stability and electronic properties of tiny nanoclusters of metallic gold. The study, which confirms the "divide and protect" bonding structure, resulted from the work of researchers at four universities on two continents.

15 Jul 2008

Asylum Research Receives 2008 R+D 100 Award for Breakthrough SPM Technology

Often referred to as the "Oscars of Invention," Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Asylum Research have just received the prestigious 2008 R+D 100 award for the development of Band Excitation (BE), a new breakthrough scanning probe microscopy (SPM) technology.

From Asylum Research - An Oxford Instruments Company 15 Jul 2008

FOA Announces Addition of Newest Device-Maker Members

The Fab Owners Association (FOA), the association of semiconductor / MEMS manufacturing executives and suppliers, has announced the addition of it newest device-maker members: Infineon Technologies ( www.infineon.c...

15 Jul 2008

New Method to Produce Thin Crystalline Silicon Wafers for Solar Cells

IMEC is developing a new method to produce ~50µm thin crystalline silicon wafers for use in solar cells. The process involves mechanically initiating and propagating a crack parallel to the surface of a Si wafer.

15 Jul 2008

Simplified Process to Reduce Cost of Double Patterning

IMEC, in collaboration with JSR Corporation, realized a simplified process using only one etch step to reduce the cost of double patterning. 32nm lines and spaces were printed with a double exposure/single etch process, effectively freezing the resist after the first exposure. This simplified process paves the way for an industrial take-up of double patterning for the 32nm technology node.

15 Jul 2008

32nm SRAM Fabricated Using EUV Technology

IMEC reports functional 0.186µm2 32nm SRAM cells made with FinFETs from which the contact layer was successfully printed using ASML's full field extreme ultraviolet (EUV) Alpha Demo Tool (ADT). Applied Materials, using its most advanced deposition systems, was key to fabricating the ultra-small circuit structures.

15 Jul 2008

Research and Markets Announces Addition of Bio-Nanotechnology Report to their Offering

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Bio Nanotechnology" report to their offering. The Bionanotechnology Market Insight Report studies the impact of Nanotechnology in various Biotechnolog...

14 Jul 2008

US Supplier of Chromatographic Columns Licenses LBL Technology

Advanced Materials Technology (AMT), a US manufacturer and developer of columns for HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography), and the Berlin-based Capsulution NanoScience AG signed in June a license contract for the use of the LBL® Technology that was originally developed for the manufacture of nano- and microcapsules by the Max Planck Society, Germany's largest research foundation, and for which Capsulution owns the worldwide marketing rights.

14 Jul 2008

The Ideal Candidates for the Next Generation of Nanoelectronics

Widely regarded as the wonder material of the 21st century, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and the intramolecular junctions that connect CNTs for integration have been hailed as the ideal candidates for the next generation of N...

14 Jul 2008

Harnessing the Solar Spectrum using InN-Based Nanostructures

Magnolia Optical Technologies announced that it is collaborating with Dr. Roger Welser of the Kopin Corporation in developing indium nitride (InN)-based quantum dot solar cells for NASA and Defense applications. &ldqu...

12 Jul 2008

First Nanostructures Ever Measured on Another Planet

For the first time ever, nanostructures have been measured on another planet. On July 9, the NASA Phoenix Mars Probe recorded images with nanometer resolution (one nanometer roughly corresponds to 0.00000004 inch) using its onboard Swiss-made atomic force microscope.

12 Jul 2008