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EV Group Unveils Next-Generation UV-Nanoimprint Lithography (UV-NIL) Step and Repeat System

EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today unveiled its next-generation UV-nanoimprint lithography (UV-NIL) step and repeat...

13 Jul 2009

Veeco Joins Microsystems Industry Group and Donates Optical Profiler

Veeco Instruments (Plainview, NY) has joined the Microsystems Industrial Group (MIG), an exclusive member industry consortium formed by Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) in Cambridge, MA. As part of this collabo...

From Veeco 13 Jul 2009

Abstract Deadline Extension for PowerMEMS 2009 Workshop

The PowerMEMS 2009 Workshop Executive Committee extended the abstract submission deadline to July 14, 2009. Please note, this will be the ONLY deadline extension. There WILL NOT be any further deadline extensions. To rec...

8 Jul 2009

Wacker Look to Optimize Semiconductor Subsidiary

Wacker Chemie AG intends to introduce a new site strategy to increase flexibility and further optimize the integrated production network of its Siltronic semiconductor subsidiary. Silicon wafer production is to be concen...

From Wacker Chemie AG 8 Jul 2009

Nanometrics Wins Orders for Photoluminescence Mapping Metrology Systems from LED Manufacturer

Nanometrics Incorporated (Nasdaq: NANO), a leading supplier of advanced process control metrology systems used primarily in the manufacturing of semiconductors, solar photovoltaics and high-brightness LEDs, today announc...

8 Jul 2009

Light Detecting Fibres in Soldier's Uniforms Identify Threats in All Directions

Imagine a soldier's uniform made of a special fabric that allows him to look in all directions and identify threats that are to his side or even behind him. In work that could turn such science fiction into reality, MIT researchers have developed light-detecting fibers that, when weaved into a web, act as a flexible camera.

7 Jul 2009

Making Better Solar Panels using Light-Absorbing Nanowires

A century after German physicist Gustav Mie derived the math to explain why the colors in some stained glass windows look especially resplendent in the sunlight, a team of Stanford engineers has built upon his work to potentially improve a means of harvesting energy from the sun.

7 Jul 2009

Profiling Interface Electron Gas using X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

X-rays can be used to image hidden structures such as bones of the human body. But now, a team of Würzburg physicists has succeeded in demonstrating the electronic structure of an interface in a solid for the first time.

6 Jul 2009

Imperial Researchers Honoured In Institute Of Physics' Annual Awards

Four researchers from Imperial's Department of Physics have been honoured in the Institute of Physics' annual awards announced this week - more than at any other UK university.

3 Jul 2009

New Particle-Sensing Technology in Validating, Analyzing Real-Time Wafer Contamination

The wafer-processing section at this year's SEMICON West will feature engineers from CyberOptics Semiconductor discussing the role of a newly developed particle-sensing technology to monitor airborne particles in process equipment in real-time to validate and analyze wafer contamination.

2 Jul 2009

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