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Launch of Major Joint Initiative for Multi-Core Semiconductor Chip Design and Architecture

Leaders of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today announced a major j...

3 Sep 2008

Teradyne Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Leading Provider of Semiconductor Test Products

Teradyne, Inc. and Eagle Test Systems, Inc. today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which Teradyne will acquire Eagle Test. Teradyne is a world leader in System-On-a-Chip (SOC) semiconductor...

2 Sep 2008

IMEC Launch New Award Winning Multi-Project Wafer Silicon Photonics Prototyping Service

IMEC and CEA-LETI launch ePIXfab, the continuation of their successful multi-project wafer silicon photonics prototyping service started in 2006. Co-funded by the European Union through the Seventh Framework Program ...

From IMEC 2 Sep 2008

Dow Corning Demonstrate New Silicone Manufacturing Process Increasing Solar Panel Production

Dow Corning Corp. has demonstrated a manufacturing process featuring new developmental silicone materials that significantly increases the production rate of solar panels, effectively lowering the cost per watt of solar ...

31 Aug 2008

Development of New Molecular Beam Epitaxy System For Fabrication of High Purity Semiconductor Structures

In order to realize the electrical units of voltage, resistance and current with highest accuracy quantum effects in nano-circuits are nowadays used. Important prerequisites are extremely pure semiconductor layers where ...

30 Aug 2008

Researchers Unveil the Secrets of Electron Heating in Low Temperature Plasmas

The secret of electron heating in low temperature plasmas has been discovered by the Bochum researchers at the Center of Excellence 'Plasma Science and Technology' (CPST) at the Ruhr University

30 Aug 2008

Optic Specialist to Showcase New Innovative Products for Vision and Inspection Applications

Moritex, specialists in lighting, lenses and vision, have chosen the forthcoming Vision 2008 exhibition in Stuttgart, Germany to preview their latest innovative products for vision and inspection applications.

29 Aug 2008

Scientists Demonstrate Quantum "Traffic Jam" in High Temperature Semiconductors

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues at Cornell University, Tokyo University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Colorado, have uncovered the first experimental evidence for why the transition temperature of high-temperature superconductors

28 Aug 2008

AMS Technologies Release World's Smallest NIR Spectral Engine

The product is ideal for applications such as petrochemical facilities, pharmaceuticals, process automation technology (PAT), semiconductor wafer monitoring and many others.

From AMS Technologies AG 22 Aug 2008

Scientists Unveal Building Blocks for World's Fastest Quantum Computer

The fastest quantum computer bit that exploits the main advantage of the qubit over the conventional bit has been demonstrated by researchers at University of Michigan, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the University o...

21 Aug 2008

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