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MEMtronics Receives DARPA Development Contract

MEMtronics Corporation, privately-held company focused on the commercialization of RF micromachined switch technology, today announced it has received a development contract from the Defense Advance Research Projects Age...

From MEMtronics Corporation 16 Jun 2009

Engineers Describe New Technique to Continue Scaling in HKMG Transistors

GLOBALFOUNDRIES, the world's first truly global leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing company, today described an innovative technology that could overcome one of the key hurdles to advancing high-k metal gate (HK...

From GlobalFoundries 16 Jun 2009

Winner of the First Photonics21 Student Innovation Award Announced

PhD Student Yannick Chassagneux is the winner of the first Photonics21 Student Innovation Award. Jan Ostoja-Ostaszewski, Member of the EU-Directorate Information Society and Media awarded Chassagneux the prize at the opening ceremony of the World of Photonics Congress in Munich on the 15 th June 2009.

15 Jun 2009

Taiwan DRAM Manufacturer Orders All-Surface Inspection System for Front-End Manufacturing Process Control

Rudolph Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: RTEC), announced today the sale of its Explorer® Inspection Cluster to a major memory manufacturer in Taiwan. The Explorer is a new multi-surface inspection system designed to deliver fast, accurate and reliable macro defect inspection at a low cost of ownership.

From Onto Innovation 15 Jun 2009

Soitec's 300mm Ultra-Thin SOI Wafer Platform Ready to Support FD Device Applications

The Soitec Group (Euronext Paris), world's leading innovator and provider of the engineered substrate solutions that serve as the foundation for today's most advanced microelectronic products, announced today tha...

From The Soitec Group 15 Jun 2009

Cascade Microtech Announces Set of New Probes and Accessories for Tesla on-Wafer Power Device Characterization System

Cascade Microtech, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCD), a worldwide leader in the precise electrical measurement and test of integrated circuits (ICs) and other small structures, today announced a set of new probes and accessories for i...

From FormFactor 15 Jun 2009

Scientists Discover 'Magnetic Superatom'

A team of Virginia Commonwealth University scientists has discovered a 'magnetic superatom' - a stable cluster of atoms that can mimic different elements of the periodic table – that one day may be used to create molecular electronic devices for the next generation of faster computers with larger memory storage.

15 Jun 2009

New Light-Emitting Transistor Setting New Record

Researchers have constructed a light-emitting transistor that has set a new record with a signal-processing modulation speed of 4.3 gigahertz, breaking the previous record of 1.7 gigahertz held by a light-emitting diode.

15 Jun 2009

New Material Could One Day Provide Dramatically Faster, More Efficient Computer Chips

Move over, silicon-it may be time to give the Valley a new name. Physicists at the Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have confirmed the existence of a type of material that could one day provide dramatically faster, more efficient computer chips.

15 Jun 2009

Bayer MaterialScience Signs Technology and Patent License Agreement with Add-Vision

Bayer MaterialScience AG signed a technology and patent license agreement with Add-Vision Inc., a Delaware corporation based in Scotts Valley, California. The agreement grants Bayer MaterialScience and its affiliates certain rights to manufacture and sell flexible polymer organic light-emitting diode (P-OLED) displays using Add-Vision's technology and intellectual property (IP) portfolio.

From Covestro AG 15 Jun 2009