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Pentacene May Allow Manufacture of High Efficiency Flexible Organic Solar Cells

As the price of energy continues to rise, businesses are looking to renewable energy for cheaper sources of power. Making electricity from the most plentiful of these sources - the sun -can be expensive due to the high p...

15 Dec 2004

Semiconductor Equipment Industry Looks Set for Consolidation as Cycle Comes to an End

Since 1970, the semiconductor industry has experienced seven cycles (’71-73 – 3 years), (’78-’80 – 3 years), (’83-’84 – 3 years), (’86-’88 – 3 years), (&l...

10 Dec 2004

Purdue Researchers Create a Model for Predicting the Reliability of Silicon Transistors

Researchers at Purdue University have created a "unified model" for predicting the reliability of new designs for silicon transistors - a potential tool that industry could use to save tens of millions of dolla...

8 Dec 2004

IBM Triples the Performance of The Standard Transistor

IBM today announced it has demonstrated a technique that triples the performance of a standard transistor used in semiconductors by a process that is compatible with conventional CMOS technology, a major step toward achi...

8 Dec 2004

Arch Chemicals Completes Sale of Microelectronic Materials Business to Fuji Photo

Arch Chemicals, Inc. reported today that it has completed its previously announced divestiture of the majority of the operations of its Microelectronic Materials business to Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. for approximately $1...

7 Dec 2004

Plastic Logic and Siemens Form Joint Development Agreement for Flexible Displays

Plastic Logic, a leading developer of plastic electronics for flexible display backplanes and sensors, announced today it has entered into a Joint Development Agreement with Siemens Communications, one of the largest pla...

6 Dec 2004

Growth of LCD Market to Slow in 2005 According to Report

While the worldwide market for processing equipment for TFT-LCDs will grow 45% to reach $4.8 billion in 2004, a combination of several factors will drop the growth rate to only 7% in 2005, according to the report LCD Pro...

2 Dec 2004

Measuring Organic Electronics

In the future, the phrase smarty pants might be taken quite literally, referring to trousers embedded with electronic "intelligence" so that they change color, for example, in response to their surroundings. ...

30 Nov 2004

Researchers Compost Old Mobile Phones

Researchers at the University of Warwick's Warwick Manufacturing Group, in conjunction with PVAXX Research & Development Ltd, have devised a novel way to recycle discarded mobile telephones - bury them and watch ...

30 Nov 2004

MIT and KIST Initiate Program on Spintronics which Could Benefit Data Storage and Communication

The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and MIT's Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory have launched a 10-year program in spintronics, a field that could lead to new ways for storing and communicating inform...

26 Nov 2004

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