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Shinsung Selects Applied Materials’ SmartFactory Manufacturing Automation Solution

Applied Materials, Inc. today announced that Shinsung Holdings Corp., a fast-growing manufacturer of high-efficiency solar photovoltaic cells and other high-technology products, has selected Applied’s SmartFactory™ manufacturing automation solution to optimize productivity and drive down costs as they ramp production across all their solar manufacturing operations in Korea.

4 Sep 2010

NanoMarkets Identifies Opportunities for Silver Products in Photovoltaics Industry

Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced the addition of the report, "Silver in Photovoltaics, 2010" to its schedule. The report will be available the week of September 13th. Details about the repo...

4 Sep 2010

SiGen Develops Kerf-Free Solar Wafers Using PolyMax Production System

Silicon Genesis, a leader in process and technology for engineered substrates announced today that it has started production of solar wafers using its new high volume manufacturing PolyMax system.

3 Sep 2010

Silicon-Based Photonic Circuits Achieve Data Transmission Capabilities Sufficient for Next-Generation Devices

Microelectronic devices such as computer processors and memory chips almost universally rely on silicon to control electrical currents. However, silicon’s poor light-emitting properties have limited its use in phot...

1 Sep 2010

Using Laser Pulse to Fabricate Nanostructures for Microelectronic Devices

Demand for ever-smaller electronic devices, whether are for information storage, high-definition displays or sensor arrays, is driving demand for nanofabrication techniques that can define ever-smaller features on circui...

1 Sep 2010

NIST Researchers Create 'Quantum Cats' Made of Light

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created "quantum cats" made of photons (particles of light), boosting prospects for manipulating light in new ways to enhance precision measurements as well as computing and communications based on quantum physics.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 31 Aug 2010