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Erbium Oxide Manufacturer Expands Production for Use in Thin Film Deposition

Los Angeles-based American Elements announced the further expansion of its erbium oxide (Er2O3) production facilities to meet growing demand from glass and optics customers. ErO forms include powder, high purity pieces, discs, and sputtering targets for thin film deposition.

26 Mar 2010

SRC Plans for Building Nanofabrication Facility at UNT

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, and the University of North Texas (UNT) today announced the formation of a ne...

26 Mar 2010

Nano-Hole Arrays Now Available from Eulitha

Researchers in need of nano-structures for replication processes such as nano-imprint lithography are often discouraged by the high cost of obtaining masters or templates. Eulitha has now added nano-hole arrays to its standard product line to make high-quality 2D patterns affordable.

From Eulitha AG 26 Mar 2010

Large Area Nano-Gratings Delivered

Whether you are investigating magnetic properties of novel materials on nanometer scale or wanting to observe how cells behave when they are forced to live on a surface with nanometer scale corrugations the bottleneck is often producing high-resolution patterns over sufficiently large areas.

From Eulitha AG 26 Mar 2010

Applied Materials Announces its Breakthrough Applied SmartSched System

Applied Materials, Inc. today announced its breakthrough Applied SmartSched™ system, the semiconductor industry’s first predictive scheduling solution for optimizing the movement of wafers through the lithography cell – the most complex and capital-intensive area of the fab.

From Applied Materials Inc. 25 Mar 2010

New Way to Produce High Quality Semiconductor Materials for Microelectronics and Nanotechnology

University of Maryland researchers have created a completely new way to produce high quality semiconductor materials critical for advanced microelectronics and nanotechnology.

25 Mar 2010

Atomic Layer Deposition Coating Technique for Food and Pharmaceutical Packaging

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed an environmentally-friendly packaging coating solution. Especially suitable for food and pharmaceutical packaging, the coating offers a new method for manufactu...

25 Mar 2010

ISMI Manufacturing Week 2010 Focuses on New Strategies for Fab Productivity and Advanced Equipment/Process Controls

ISMI Manufacturing Week, the semiconductor industry's only conference on productivity and cost-saving solutions that can be quickly inserted into today's fabs, will take place Oct. 31-Nov. 4 at the Renaissance Ho...

24 Mar 2010

Renesas Employs Proteus OPC to Develop 28-nm Node for Photon-Based Lithography

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Renesas Technology Corp., the world's No. 1 supplier of microcontrollers...

24 Mar 2010

New Water Desalination Device Operates at Microscopic Scale

A new approach to desalination being developed by researchers at MIT and in Korea could lead to small, portable units that could be powered by solar cells or batteries and could deliver enough fresh water to supply the needs of a family or small village.

24 Mar 2010