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Auto SE from HORIBA Scientific Wins 2008 IC Industry New System Award

HORIBA Scientific is pleased to announce the unique Auto SE as the winner of the 2008 IC Industry New System Award.

From HORIBA 10 Oct 2008

Breakthrough in Modern Microscopy - The THz Nanoscope

Contrary to textbook wisdom, the unusually long illuminating wavelength of 118 µm did not at all preclude researchers from the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) to resolve details as small as 40 nm (= 0.0...

10 Oct 2008

New Thermoelectric Material Could Help Improve Gas Mileage

With gasoline at high prices, it's disheartening to know that up to three-quarters of the potential energy you are paying for is wasted. A good deal of it goes right out the tailpipe instead of powering your car. ...

10 Oct 2008

Leading Lithography Supplier Acquires Patents From IBM for Semiconductor Wafer Annealing

Ultratech, Inc., a leading supplier of lithography and laser-processing systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices, today announced that it has acquired the rights to a collection of patents from IBM -- these incl...

9 Oct 2008

Using Nanotechnology to Develop Sustainable Energy Systems

Nanotechnologies can be used to develop sustainable energy systems while reducing the harmful effects of fossil fuels as they are gradually phased out over the next century. This optimistic scenario is coming closer to r...

9 Oct 2008

Industry Leaders Announced Agreement to Develop Maskless ICs

Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited, e-Shuttle, Inc. -- a joint venture established by FML and Advantest Corporation -- and D2S, an emerging design and software company, today announced an agreement under which FML and e-Sh...

9 Oct 2008

Panasonic and Renesas Technology Collaborating on Development of SoCs at 32-nm Process Node

Building on the successful partnership on their joint process technology development since 1998, Panasonic Corporation and Renesas Technology Corp. are now collaborating on the development of elemental process technologi...

9 Oct 2008

New Type of LED Centered on Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Holiday Creations/Diogen Lighting, Inc. and Evident Technologies, Inc. today announced the signing of an exclusive licensing and purchase agreement to enable a new type of LED to be commercialized in the seasonal light s...

9 Oct 2008

Engineering Materials that Act as Superconductors at the Nanoscale

One major goal on the path toward making useful superconducting devices has been engineering materials that act as superconductors at the nanoscale - the realm of billionths of a meter. Such nanoscale superconductors would be useful in devices such as superconductive transistors and eventually in ultrafast, power-saving electronics.

9 Oct 2008

New Nanomaterial Could be Used to Manufacture Smaller and Faster Computers

In the past few years, the design and manufacturing of circuits at nanoscopic scale for integrated devices has become one of the frontier fields in new material science and technology. The significant reduction achieved ...

9 Oct 2008