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Tokyo Electron Increasing Market Share in Asian Semiconductor Market

While Applied Materials will remain the semiconductor equipment market leader in 2004, Tokyo Electron (TEL) could move into first position in Japan, according to the report Asia’s Microelectronics Market: China, Ho...

13 Jul 2004

Technique for Purifying Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes

Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every eighteen months. However current silicon technologies are approaching the limits imposed by quantum mechanics, which will stop Moore’s...

12 Jul 2004

Veeco to Develop Next Generation Deposition Technologies

Veeco Instruments Inc.> today announced that it has launched an advanced engineering program to develop a next-generation data storage thin film head sensor deposition tool, which will be ideal for the technology tran...

5 Jul 2004

pSivida Granted Australian Patent for Biosilicon

Global nanotechnology company pSivida Limited, is pleased to announce that its UK operating subsidiary pSiMedica Limited has been granted a new Australian patent for BioSiliconTM. Australian Patent Number 769952 provi...

1 Jul 2004

Ultrahigh Performance, Mechanically Flexible Thin-Film Transistors

By carving specks of single crystal silicon from a bulk wafer and casting them onto sheets of plastic, scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated a route to ultrahigh performance, mech...

21 Jun 2004

Researchers at Hebrew University Develop Gold-tipped Nanocrystals

“Nanodumbells” – gold-tipped nanocrystals which can be used as highly-efficient building blocks for devices in the emerging nanotechnology revolution – have been developed by researchers at the He...

18 Jun 2004

Xilinx and UMC Develop Industry's First FPGAs to Utilize Triple-Oxide 90nm Technology

Xilinx, Inc. the world's leading supplier of programmable logic solutions and inventor of the FPGA, and leading global semiconductor foundry UMC, today announced production of the industry's first FPGA products m...

17 Jun 2004

Semiconductor Industry Assoc Calls for US to Accelerate Nanoelectronics Research

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today called for creation of a Nanoelectronics Research Institute to direct and coordinate a massive research effort to assure continued U.S. leadership in information technol...

11 Jun 2004

Nantero Partners with LSI Logic to Develop Semiconductor Process Technology

Nantero, Inc. announced today that it is teaming with LSI Logic Corporation to develop semiconductor process technology, expediting the effective utilization of carbon nanotubes in CMOS fabrication. The joint developm...

9 Jun 2004

STMicroelectronics, CEA-Leti and AIXTRON Develop Ultra-Thin Gate-Insulation Process for Advanced CMOS Transistors

STMicroelectronics today announced that ST, CEA-Leti and AIXTRON have developed an advanced process technology for the creation of ultra-thin transistor-gate-insulation layers for low-power applications at the 65nm and 4...

28 May 2004

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