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High Quality Epitaxial Services from TELEFUNKEN Semiconductors for 150-mm Wafer Customers

TELEFUNKEN Semiconductors announces today the availability of high quality in-line Si and SiGe epitaxial deposition service for customers, commercial and non-commercial, worldwide to address growing in-line epitaxial layer market requirement for the high speed amplifier and power driver applications.

22 Oct 2010

FSI International Wins Additional Orders for Single-Wafer, CryoKinetic System

FSI International, Inc. announced today that a leading Asia-based logic device producer has placed additional orders for multiple ANTARES® CryoKinetic cleaning systems, further broadening the platform’s installed base.

22 Oct 2010

Metal Vapor Deposition at Glancing Angles Creates Larger-Diameter Nanorods

Just as landscape photographs shot in low-angle light dramatically accentuate subtle swales and mounds, depositing metal vapors at glancing angles turns a rough surface into amazing nanostructures with a vast range of po...

22 Oct 2010

New 70-nm Narrow Channel Helps to Study Flow of Photogenerated Electrons

At the heart of the method is a so-called quantum point contact (QPC). This is a narrow conductive channel in a semiconductor circuit. The scientists created a 70-nanometer narrow channel, about as wide as the wavelength of electrons in the semiconductor.

22 Oct 2010

imec Improving Electronics for Smart Brain Implants

Imagine that, one day, we would be able to implant electronics in the brain. Electronics that restore damaged regions of the brain. Or impaired functions, such as speech, hearing, vision, movement control, or even memory...

From IMEC 21 Oct 2010

Processing High-Efficiency Modules from 50µm Thick Wafers

The process that SUGAR proposes resembles a standard thin-film process: deposition on several square meters of amorphous Si, metallization, and laser patterning.

From IMEC 21 Oct 2010

Integrated Production of Photovoltaic Modules Based on Ultra-Thin Crystalline Si

Imec has started work, together with its project partners, on SUGAR, a project under the EU’s 7th framework program for ICT. The project’s goal is to develop a process for the integrated production of photovoltaic modules based on ultra-thin crystalline Si.

From IMEC 21 Oct 2010

Smart Miniaturized System for Continuous Health Monitoring of Composites

European FP7 funded project SmartFiber, a consortium led by imec and including partners Ghent University, Airborne, FBGS Technologies, Xenics, Fraunhofer and Optocap, will develop a smart miniaturized system for continuous health monitoring of composites that integrates optical fiber sensor technology, nanophotonic chip technology and low-power wireless technology.

From IMEC 21 Oct 2010

Imec Successfully Develop Mixed-Signal ASIC for Space Applications

Imec has used its design against radiation effects DARE library for the commercial 0.18µm UMC CMOS process to design a mixed-signal application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for Tesat-Spacecom.

From IMEC 21 Oct 2010

Innovative Flexible Shear Sensor for Medical Applications

Researchers from imec’s associated lab at Ghent University have invented an innovative way to fabricate shear sensors for use on flexible surfaces, such as human or robotic skin. The new sensors are based on optical technology embedded in thin flexible substrates.

From IMEC 21 Oct 2010