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Applied NanoWorks Develops FlexB Flame Retardant

Applied NanoWorks (ANW), an inorganic materials development company, has announced FlexB™, a boron-based, non-halogenated flame retardant (FR) additive for nylon, epoxies and water-based coatings. Material testing has achieved UL-94 V-0 ratings with FlexB loading levels as low as 3%.

10 Feb 2009

Combination of X3 and 32 Nanometer Represents Breakthroughs in Size and Density

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) and Toshiba Corporation today announced the co-development of multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory using 32-nanometer (nm) process technology to produce a 32-gigabit (Gb) 3-bits-per-cell (X3) memory chip.

10 Feb 2009

Veeco Receives Multiple Orders for Molecular Beam Epitaxy Systems

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that it received five Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) systems orders during the fourth quarter of 2008, and over the past 12 months has seen an increase in orders for its multiple growth module cluster tool systems.

From Veeco 10 Feb 2009

Legend's MSIM SPICE Circuit Simulator Certified for TSMC's Advanced Nanometer Circuit Designs

Legend Design Technology, Inc. today announced that its MSIM® circuit simulator has been qualified through TSMC's 40 nanometer (nm) SPICE Tool Qualification Program. The program provides designers the ability to ...

From TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company 10 Feb 2009

XLR 600iX Delivers Improved On-Wafer Performance to Chipmakers

Cymer, Inc. (Nasdaq:CYMI), the market's leading developer of light sources used to pattern advanced semiconductor chips, announced today that its advanced XLR 600i-originally introduced as a 90 watt (W) light source-...

From Cymer, Inc. 10 Feb 2009

Nanosized Crystals as Efficient Harvesters of Solar Radiation

A team of Los Alamos researchers led by Victor Klimov has shown that carrier multiplication-when a photon creates multiple electrons-is a real phenomenon in tiny semiconductor crystals and not a false observation born of...

10 Feb 2009

SUSS MicroTec Wafer Bonders Continue to Capture Major Market Share in Advanced MEMS Manufacturing

MST.factory dortmund, a renowned center of competence for micro and nanotechnology based in Germany, has purchased the CB8 High Performance Wafer Bonder from SUSS MicroTec (FWB:SMH)(GER:SMH), a leading supplier of innova...

From SUSS MicroTec AG 10 Feb 2009

CombiMatrix to Present Preliminary Data On Non-Invasive Cancer Screening Test

CombiMatrix Corporation (Nasdaq:CBMX) announced today that preliminary data on its investigational Comprehensive Cancer Array test will be presented publicly for the first time, at Cambridge Healthtech Institute's 16th International Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference being held on February 25-27, 2009, in San Francisco.

From Invitae Corporation 10 Feb 2009

AIXTRON Receives Order for CRIUS System from New Customer

AIXTRON AG today announced an order received in the second quarter 2008 for an Close Coupled Showerhead CRIUS system with 31x2" wafer configuration from a new customer, Yangzhou Zhongke Semiconductor Lighting Center...

From AIXTRON SE 10 Feb 2009

Luminescent Advances Computational Lithography Lead

Luminescent Technologies, Inc., the pioneer and first-to-market provider of computational lithography solutions for the global semiconductor industry, continues to advance its lead, with six major semiconductor manufacturers in Europe, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and the US now using its Inverse Lithography Technology (ILT) to develop computational solutions in a mix of environments -- from production at the 50- nm node to development at 36-nm, 28-nm and 22-nm nodes.

9 Feb 2009