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Atomic-Sized One-Stop Shop for Nanoelectronics

University of Pittsburgh researchers have created a nanoscale one-stop shop, a single platform for creating electronics at a nearly single-atom scale that could yield advanced forms of such technologically important devices as high-density memory devices and - most importantly - transistors and computer processors.

19 Feb 2009

SolRayo Announces Opening of New Ultracapacitor Manufacturing Facility in Madison

Enable IPC Corporation's (Other OTC: EIPC) SolRayo subsidiary announced the opening of its new facility in Madison, Wisconsin. The new facility, part of a larger business park, was built out to SolRayo's speci...

19 Feb 2009

Shin-Etsu Chemical Introduces Ultra Thick Photoresist for Advanced Packaging, and GaAs and MEMS Devices

For thick plating applications like copper pillar bump processing in semiconductor advanced packaging, Shin-Etsu has introduced a positive tone, chemically amplified ultra thick photoresist, SIPR-7126. The photoresist wa...

18 Feb 2009

Applied Microengineering Launches New Advanced Bonded Substrate Business

Applied Microengineering Ltd (AML), world leaders in wafer bonding machines and bonding services, has announced the launch of its multi-million pound BONDCENTRE and new advanced bonded substrate business. The state-of-the-art facility, now complete, is situated on the UK's premiere science park in Harwell, Oxfordshire.

18 Feb 2009

Applied Materials Achieves Number One Market Position in Solar Equipment

Applied Materials today held its 2009 financial analyst day in New York City. Applied's executive team discussed the company's plans for preserving its strong financial position in the current economic crisis whi...

From Applied Materials Inc. 18 Feb 2009

Nanometrics Appoints New CFO

Nanometrics Incorporated (Nasdaq:NANO), a leading supplier of advanced process control metrology equipment to customers in the semiconductor, silicon wafer, data storage, solar photovoltaic and HB-LED industries, announc...

18 Feb 2009

Discovery Led by Princeton Researchers Could Revolutionize Computing

An international team of scientists, led by a Princeton University group, has observed an exciting and strange behavior in electrons' spin within a new material that could be harnessed to transform computing and elec...

18 Feb 2009

IMEC Technologists Showcase Newest Breakthroughs in Advanced Semiconductor Lithography

IMEC technologists will present their newest breakthroughs in advanced semiconductor lithography research and development at next week's SPIE Advanced Microlithography Conference, to be held February 23 - 27 in San Jose, California.

From IMEC 18 Feb 2009

Study Finds New, Less Costly Solar Cell Materials Can Meet Energy Demand

Unconventional solar cell materials that are as abundant but much less costly than silicon and other semiconductors in use today could substantially reduce the cost of solar photovoltaics, according to a new study from the Energy and Resources Group and the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).

17 Feb 2009

Efficiency of Thin Film Solar Cells for Homes and Buildings Reaches 7 Percent

In Vikram Dalal's 37 years of researching solar technology, the efficiency of thin film solar cells for homes and buildings has improved from 1 percent to about 7 percent.

17 Feb 2009