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Webinar Targetting Engineers New to Semiconductor Materials and Device Testing

Keithley Instruments, Inc. (NYSE: KEI), a world leader in advanced electrical test instruments and systems, will broadcast a free, web-based seminar titled "Semiconductor Capacitance-Voltage (C-V) Fundamentals,&quot...

From Tektronix 22 May 2009

PI Opens Online Store to Better Support North American Customer Base

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. a leading manufacturer of nanopositioning and precision motion control equipment has opened an online store to better support its North American customer base.

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 21 May 2009

Researchers Show Electric Fields Can Be Used as ON/OFF Switches in Doped Multiferroic Films

In a promising new development, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) working with a prototypical multiferroic have successfully demonstrated just such a switch - electric fields.

21 May 2009

HRL Laboratories Reaches Milestone in Carbon Electronics for RF Applications

HRL Laboratories, LLC, announced today it reached another milestone in the Carbon Electronics for RF Applications, or CERA program, which seeks to exploit the unique physical characteristics of graphene carbon to create electronic components that will enable unprecedented capabilities in high-bandwidth communications, imaging and radar systems.

21 May 2009

Engineer Explores Properties of Materials

In the 1990s, semiconductor companies began to incorporate a wider variety of materials into the construction of computer chips, selecting materials based on how they would perform electrically and not necessarily on how they would stand up to the rigors of the manufacturing process or continued use.

21 May 2009

Battery-Free Power Source for Wireless Sensors

Darnell nanoPower Forum - Today, engineers from Powercast and CAP-XX Limited (LSE:CPX) will introduce a wireless power module reference design combining Powercast's RF energy-harvesting technology with a CAP-XX supercapacitor.

From CAP-XX Pty Ltd 21 May 2009

A Newfound Flaw in Our Understanding of Transistor Noise

Chip manufacturers beware: There's a newfound flaw in our understanding of transistor noise, a phenomenon affecting the electronic on-off switch that makes computer circuits possible. According to the engineers at th...

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 21 May 2009

Software Automatically Generates Proximity Effect Corrected Runfile for SEM-Based Electron Beam Lithography

The NanoMaker Workbench software from SEMTech Solutions automatically generates a Proximity Effect Corrected runfile, compatible with NPGS systems, for SEM-based electron beam lithography.

20 May 2009

Tinted See-Thru Coating for Generating Electricity on Glass Windows Makes Use of Ultra-Small Solar Cells

New Energy Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: NENE), today announced that, in addition to the active development of its MotionPower™ technologies for generating electricity by harvesting the kinetic energy of moving vehicles, the Company is continuing to further advance the development of its tinted transparent glass SolarWindows™ capable of generating electricity by coating glass surfaces with the world’s smallest known organic solar cells.

20 May 2009