- 13 January 2006 -
ASM first to enter China with 300 mm epi system
ASM International sold the world’s first 300 mm epitaxial reactor into mainland China, to Beijing-based General Research Institute for Nonferrous Metals (GRINM)...more
- 3 November 2005 -
Solar powered hospital in a box
A solar-powered “hospital in a box”, which can fit in the back of a Land Rover, has been designed to allow a team of three surgeons to carry out life-saving operations almost anywhere in the world...more
- 1 November 2005 -
BiCD joins BiCMOS in
audio PA
Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc has introduced a
first Class-KB audio power amplifier based on bipolar, complementary
metal oxide semiconductor and double-diffused metal oxide
semiconductor (BiCD) technology designated TB2905HQ...more
- 25 October 2005 -
Subcutaneous bio-sensors give accurate
data
The Academy of Finland is funding a Wireless research project.
Led by Professor Jukka Lekkala, this is developing miniscule
subcutaneous sensors...more
- 24 October 2005 -
CMOS overtakes CCD and CIS
CMOS image sensor shipments surpassed Charge-Coupled
Devices (CCDs), reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com).
This shift was the result of an exp-loding camera phone market,
shipments more than doubling from 2003 to 2004...more
-20 October 2005 -
Insulated TGG demonstrates phonon Hall effect
The phonon Hall effect or the acoustic equivalent
of the electrical Hall effect, has been observed by physicists
at Max Planck Institut fur Festkorperforschung (MPI) and Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France...more
14 October 2005
PA power use cut 50%
RF Micro Devices Inc has entered the market for DC-DC
converter power management components. It has commenced shipments
to a tier-one handset manufacturer for use in CDMA handsets...more
-13 October 2005 -
Miniature silicon photon
counter
SensL has releasd its “PCDMini” photon counting
platform. PCDMini, the first miniature photon counting system,
offers a complete photon counting capability incorporated
on a PCB with hermetically sealed detector...more
- 13 October 2005 -
Smart 3 axes accelerometer MEMS
STMicroelectronics has expanded its portfolio of three-axis
accelerometers with three new models, in ever smaller packages...more
- 13 October 2005 -
Driving the $9.1bm mobile
battery market
By 2010 the market for batteries for mobile electronics, communications
and computing is expected to reach $9.1bn says NanoMarkets
LC...more
- 13 October 2005 -
Silicon wafers forecast
to grow 2% in 2005
According to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group Consensus
Forecast, total wafer shipments will increase by about
7% in 2006...more
- 10 October 2005 -
Harris provides unfurlable
antenna reflectors
Harris Corporation has been selected by Space Systems/Loral
(SS/L), Palo Alto, CA, to design and construct four unfurlable
mesh reflectors for three satellites that SS/L is supplying
to telecoms and radio broadcast service providers...more
- Oct 6 2005 -
100 million SiGe RFICs shipped
Sirenza Microdevices, Inc., says it has shipped more
than 100 million SiGe high-performance RFICs using Atmel Corporation's
SiGe semiconductor technology ...more
- 5 October 2005-
Jazz next-gen RFCMOS hits 0.13 micron for advanced
analog and RF SoC
At the 2005 FSA Conference, Jazz Semiconductor unveiled
its latest process design kits for its 0.13 micron RFCMOS
process. Called the CA13, it is described as an "innovative
approach to enabling analog system on chip integration"
...more
-3 October
2005 -
Natural concepts for nanofabrication
Inspired by the intricacy of the shapes
formed by micro-organisms - and by those organisms' ability
to reproduce rapidly - researchers at Georgia Institute of
Technology have found an efficient way to create nanoscale
parts for electronics ...more
- 3 October 2005 -
Major grant for nanomaterials
on semiconductors
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the University
of Wisconsin-Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering
Center (MRSEC) nearly $14.8 million over the next six years
to continue its leading-edge research on the interfaces of
materials at the nanoscale ...more
- 29 September 2005 -
Sandia Corp stalls technology
transfer
Nanodetex Corp, has filed a $225m lawsuit in Federal Court
in Santa Fe against Sandia Corporation...more
- 29 September 2005 -
Increased performance, smaller,
thinner package
STMicroelectronics has extended its range of dual-axis acceleration
sensors with the introduction of two new devices housed in
the tiny, lead-free Land Grid Array package measuring just
5x5x1.5mm...more
-26 September 2005 -
OLEDS reach 100,000
hour mark
Novaled (Dresden, Germany) has developed a red top emission
OLED achieving 10lm/W at 500nits, with a projected lifetime
of more than 100,000 hrs...more.
- 26 September 2005 -
Printed oscillator completed
BASF Future Business GmbH is jointly developing leading edge
printed electronics technology based on organic semiconductors
to be used in a broad variety of applications...more
-23 September 2005 -
LCD operates in portrait
or landscape
Now ampling the new 8.4-inch (21cm-diagonal) video graphics
array, amorphous silicon, thin film transistor liquid crystal
display module (NL6448BC26-08D) from NEC LCD Technologies
Ltd...more
-22 September 2005 -
Immersion lithography on track
Demonstrating significant progress in all aspects of the technology,
193nm immersion lithography is on track for insertion into
volume manufacturing, with good prospects for extendibility
to subsequent generations,..more
- 20 September 2005 -
Cognitive radio frontier for wireless telecommunications
Virginia Tech’s Center for Wireless Telecommunications
gets three-year NSF grant to work in the field of cognitive
radio to advance cognitive networks... more
-20 September 2005 -
Solar moves in China
and Germany
United Solar Ovonic is to form a JV with Tianjin Jinneng Investment
Company (TJIC) to establish a 25MW thin-film triple-junction
amorphous silicon PV module manufacturing operation. Meanwhile
Schott AG (Mainz, Germany) acquires the 50% share that RWE
Solutions AG holds in RWE Schott Solar GmbH....more
- 17 September 2005 -
Misted deposition
Nano Electronics, an Advance Nanotech subsidiary, has
licensed the ferroelectric nanotube manufacturing technology
of Samco, Japan and the University of Cambridge, UK...more
- 17 September 2005 -
Magnetic diamond particles
Researchers have reported a technique to make magnetic
diamond particles only 4-5nm across which could be used in
fields ranging from medicine to information technology...more
15 September 2005 -
Chalcogenide memory industry
BAE Systems IEWS in Manassas,
VA received a $5m cost reimbursement contract modification
to "produce a chalcogenide-based, radiation hardened
for megabyte non-volatile memory”...more
14 September 2005 -
Ten sepsis bacteria checks trialled by 2006
STMicroelectronics and Mobidiag have introduced a new lab-on-chip
application for DNA-based detection of sepsis-causing bacteria,
using a diagnostic panel from Mobidiag that runs on ST's In-Check
platform...more
- 13 September 2005 -
Atomic level solutions
ProMOS Technologies of Hsin-chu Science Park, Taiwan
has placed a purchase order for a production ALD system from
Genus Inc, a member of the Aixtron Group...more
- 8 September 2005 -
Quantum calculations of H2O and LiH
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley simulated the
process by which a quantum computer could calculate to high
precision an important basic property of two small molecules...more
- 2 September 2005 -
Silicon qubit overtakes
GaAs
A silicon quantum-dot charged 'qubit' device has emerged from
a team at Hitachi's Cambridge Laboratory at University of
Cambridge, UK...more
- 31 August 2005 -
A fiber for electrical, magnetic or optical 'signatures'
New nanoscale fibers that placed inside a garment or paper
document serve as a “fingerprint” to prove garments
or documents are genuine...more
- 29 August 2005 -
Nanocoats defog glass and
lenses
Scientists at MIT have developed a unique polymer coating
- made of silica nanoparticles - that might create unfogable
surfaces...more
- 23 August 2005 -
Chip scale atomic clock development
Symmetricom Inc, manufacturer in precise time and frequency
products and services, has been awarded $3.4m, funding for
Phase-III of the DARPA Chip Scale Atomic Clock program...more
- 23 August 2005 -
Wisair introduces UWB module for development
This is intended to facilitate the development of applications
with Intel's Peripheral Development Kit for Certified Wireless
USB...more
-19 August 2005 -
Ecomagination's carbon diode
GE Global Research has developed an ideal carbon
nanotube diode that operates at the "theoretical limit,"
or best possible performance ...more
- 18 August 2005 -
Biomedical spinoff gets
Federal funds
A $3m Department of Defense appropriation to Buffalo BioBlower
Technologies LLC, will allow the new company to begin commercialising
its powerful air sterilisation device...more
-18 August 2005 -
LSV decreases NOx
Air Products and John Zink Company, LLC have announced a license
agreement for Air Products' patented Large Scale Vortex burner
technology...more
-17 August 2005 -
IME and EV Group develop Lab-on-a-Chip
EV Group has announced its Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC) research highlights
achieved at their Singapore customer, Institute of Microelectronics...more
- 15 August 2005 -
Mobile menace
Visitors to the world athletics championships in
Finland have the possibility of catching the world's first
mobile phone virus Cabir. Officials in Finland, home to Nokia,
said there had been outbreaksat Helsinki's Olympic Stadium,
reports Silicon.Com...more
- 11 August 2005 -
'Lighter, more stowable and lower cost'
United Solar Ovonic Corp, an Energy Conversion
Devices Inc subsidiary has been awarded a $6.7m, 18-month
contract to continue development of its ultra-light weight,
high-efficiency solar cell technology...more
- 3 August 2005 -
High k and body biasing
for low leakage
Two NEC Corp. units have developed technology to lower standby
power for mobile devices, combining high-k technology and
a body-biasing scheme...more
- 2 August 2005 -
Laser finds surfaces
have built-in DNA
The surfaces of most paper documents, plastic cards and cardboard
packages contain unique 'fingerprints' that could be used
to combat fraud...more
- 1 August 2005 -
Silicon sensor is bad tunnel diode
A new sensor being patented by Ohio State University
could be used to detect concealed weapons or help pilots see
better through rain and fog...more
- 1st August 2005 -
Focus on FET and screen
grid FET
Innos and Imperial College, London, demonstrate the potential
for high-speed low power applications using strained-Si transistors...more
- Aug 1, 2005 -
Intematix Boosts Capacity for Phosphors &
Nano-Materials R&D
In response to rising demand for phosphors driven by solid
state lighting and other industries, global merchant phosphor
provider Intematix Corporation, said it is to relocate its
corporate facilities to Fremont, CA, USA. ...more
- 26 Jul 2005 -
Sirenza launches single-chip WiMAX PA
Sirenza Microdevices' newest high-performance power amplifier
for WiMAX 802.16 applications, the SZA-3044 device provides
high levels of integration and high performance for next-generation
wireless systems ...more
- 20 July 2005 -
Engineers create optoelectronic tweezers to round
up cells, microparticles
A new device developed by University of California,
Berkeley,
engineers, and dubbed an "optoelectronic tweezer,"
will enable
researchers to easily manipulate large numbers of single cells
and
particles using optical images projected on a glass slide
coated with
photoconductive materials. ...more
- July 20th 2005 -
Cymer, Inc. and Carl Zeiss SMT AG team for next-generation
displays
Cymer, Inc. and Carl Zeiss SMT AG, announced the creation
of TCZ GmbH
(Team Cymer Zeiss), a joint venture focused on innovative
production
equipment for the emerging FPD market. Based on their combined
laser
and optics expertise the companies have developed a production
tool to
improve LTPS processes for TFT displays ...more
-15 July 2005 -
The slug out in the ATV market
Consumer electronics and semiconductor companies
are slugging it out for the grand prize: the living room and
the technology behind the pixel in the advanced television
(ATV) market...more
- 15 July 2005 -
Seeing double with angles
Sharp has developed a new LCD, which can simultaneously
display different information and image content in right and
left views in a single unit by directionally controlling the
viewing angle of the LCD....more
- 12 July 2005 -
Z-Wave funding
Zensys, the American-Danish provider of system-on-chips for
wireless home automation. has closed $16m in Series C funding
led by Bessemer Venture Partners...more
- 7 July 2005 -
Sliver carves into awards
Solar technology developed at The Australian National University
has won its second environmental award in less than a month.
... more
- 6 July 2005 -
GaAs, SiGe and CMOS for 3G
Writing for ElectronicsWeekly.comBread, author Richard
Wilson investigates Designing 3G in CMOS...."Take the
back off many GSM handsets and it will be a GaAs, not Si RF
front end and PA which you find, probably supplied by RF Micro
Devices" ... more
- 5 July 2005 -
Hewlett Packard goes opto quantum computing
HP scientists said that they have developed a strategy for
designing a quantum computer composed of switches of light
beams...more
- 1 July 2005 -
New MPI technique for materials
analysis
Scientists at Philips Research have been active in developing
a completely new imaging technique called Magnetic Particle
Imaging (MPI) and have demonstrated the feasibility of the
technique. Still in the early research stages, the new technique
offers potential as a valuable addition to the current armory
of imaging techniques for medical imaging and materials analysis.
The work was published in Nature ... more
-29 June 2005 -
The Cell for bulk radar,
sonar, digital X-ray data
Mercury Computer Systems Inc partners with IBM to integrate
the Cell microprocessor technology to build computer systems
for data-intensive applications...more
- 28 June 2005 -
STS Pegasus may promise
SiC etch
Surface Technology Systems has released its latest DCPS Pegasus.
STS VC Mutsuo Makuda notes "The introduction has already
resulted in several orders from companies with demanding applications
in production...more
- 22 June 2005 -
TU Delft EBID world record
Dots of 0,7nm large and lines less than two nm width
are created in a short time using E-Beam Induced Deposition
by Delft researchers Dr Kees Hagen and Ir. Willem van Dorp.
Made of tungsten, the lines are fifty times thinner than currently
used on a chip...more
- 21 June 2005 -
Cooling for denser packaging
and reliability
Georgia Institute of Technology hasa wafer-level fab technique
using polymer pipes for simultaneous electronic and cooling
interconnects using automated manufacture...more
- 21 June 2005 -
Silicon up from 103GHz
to top 105-GHz
UMC, a world leading semiconductor foundry, today announced
it has fabricated
a Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (VCO) with a record-setting
fundamental operating frequency of 105GHz using its 0.13um
RF CMOS technology...more
- 16 June 2005 -
Another power approach
- atomic batteries [excert]
The typical future-tech scenario calls for millions of low-powered
radio frequency devices - from factory-floor sensor arrays
to medical implants to smart devices for battlefields writes
Eric Brown in MIT's Technology Review...more
- 16 June 2005 -
The RAT race
TiaLinx Inchas been awarded a SBIR Phase I award
from the NSF to address feasibility of accurately managing
inventory of tamper proof and environmentally resiliant passively
tagged assets ...more
- 16 June 2005 -
IBM goes low-power ASICs
IBM is to move to 65nm ASIC offerings for consumer
electronicsand digital media markets, that need low-power
functionality for mobile, handheld devices...more
-15 June 2006 -
Improved productivity in metrology
KLA-Tencor has introduced Archer AIM+, its latest
overlay metrology solution, reducing TMU 50%, and increasing
tool throughput by up to 20% ... more
- 8 June 2005 -
LETI uses HfSiON for MOS gates
French R&D lab LETI shas successfully fabricated metal
gate transistors with a high k gate dielectric on 300mm wafers...more
- 7 June 2005 -
Amorphous Si TFT technology
for OLED display
CDT has reached an agreement with the IBM Corp to market IBM's
advanced design and materials development in a-Si TFT technology
for OLED display devices...more
- 6 June 2005 -
Thales and Loea deliver security
Thales and Loea Corporation have allied to provide secure
wireless solutions to the US Federal Government...more
- 6 June 2005 -
BSI Vocabulary - Nanoparticles
for all
In the preface of what will be a collector's specification
PAS 71:2005 DG
David Hughes, DG Innovation Group of the DTI, says "terms
and definitions may seem to be of little consequence, but
is fundamental to the development of a common understanding
of the terms in this field"...more
- 3 June 2005 -
Infineon hands over
wearable elecronics
Within the framework of a management buy out wearable
electronics goes to the company Interactive Wear AG iG of
Wessling, Germany... more
- 3 June 2005 -
Bayer backs InPhase
Technologies
Bayer MaterialScience AG and Nanotech Partners have joined
as new investors
in InPhase Technologies $32.1m third round of funding. Bayer
had already agreed to a JD for the development and supply
of polymer raw materials for the production of holographic
data storage...more
-3 June 2005 -
New 3D package
Hitachi Ltd and Renesas Technology Corp have a new stacked
chip technology using a through-hole interconnect for chip
bonding at room temperature...more
- 31 May 2005 -
CVD signs to buy First
Nano Inc assets
CVD Equipment Corporation has contracted with First Nano,
Inc to purchase certain assets of their nanotechnology process
development and equipment business "to realise greater
market potential beyond simply R&D" ...more
- 31 May 2005 -
Pirelli communications and power for China
With the supply of an Optical Ground Wire cable system
which provides a conventional earth conductor together with
the provision of a state-of-the-art communications link...more
-27 May 2005 -
Nanoscale electro-machining
NEM is one of the few techniques that allows researchers to
manipulate various materials -- from silicon to silicon nitride
to gold -- by the selection of appropriate liquid and process
conditions...more
- 25 May 2005 -
NEDs look to have market
appeal
Motorola shows its first working nano-emissive display (NED)
prototype
at the Society for Information Display (SID) conference in
Boston...more
- 24 May 2005 -
Faster Floating point
FFT IP core for FPGA
4DSP Inc of Reno, Nevada, have released a new Floating Point
Fast Fourier Transform core that is IEEE-754 compliant, designed
for use in newer generation high performance programmable
devices...more
- 23 May 2005 –
Initiative on Phase Change Memory technology
IBM, Infineon and Macronix are to undertake a joint research
initiative to explore the potential of a new form of computer
memory technology called phase-change memory (PCM)....more
- 23 May 2005 -
Will QDs make way for "CU dots"?
By surrounding fluorescent dyes with a protective
silica shell,researchers have created fluorescent nanoparticles
with possible applications in displays, biological imaging,
optical computing, sensors and microarrays such as DNA chips...more
- 23 May 2005 -
Suimitomo acquires Dow's LEP technology
Sumitomo Chemical Co Ltd will purchase the Lumation Light-Emitting
Polymers business from Dow Chemical Co...more
- 19 May 2005 -
Silicon device modulates light
Cornell University researchers have developed a silicon
device that allows an electrical signal to modulate a beam
of light on a micrometer scale...more
- 19 May 2005 -
$200m spend for 45nm photomasks
IBM Corp and Toppan Printing Co Ltd are agreed to
jointly develop photomasks for next generation, 45nm semiconductor
manufacturing processes...more
- 5 May 2005 -
sSi and nickel silicide in new generation
In response to customer demand, TSMC’s first
65nm Nexsys technology, which will enter first production
in December 2005, is optimised for low power...more
- 3 May 2005 -
China IC design grows
China's integrated circuit design industry posted significant
growth in 2004, according to the "IC Design House
Survey" conducted by EE Times, Asia...more
-29 April 2005 -
IMEC growth - a compound
research model?
IMEC's self-generated revenues have risen with more
than 12% in 2004, comprising some E125m...more
- 25 April 2005 -
24 hours From RTL to
tapeout
eASIC Corp, a provider of configurable logic and structured
ASIC products and customer STMicroelectronics achieved 24
hours turnaround from RTL to tape-out, using eASIC's structured
eASIC technology...more
- 25 April 2005 -
Sophisticated thermal management technologies
With electronic devices incorporating microprocessors
and ICs breaking through Moore's Law barriers, innovations
and technologies becomes the order of the day and the quantity
of heat dissipation becomes much higher...more.
- 21 April 2005 -
NDR at room temperature
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have demonstrated
a new kind of electrical switch, formed of organic molecules,
that could be used in the future in nanoscale electronic components...more
- 20 April 2005 -
Single chip for wireless
handset lighting
California Micro Devices has introduced the first
of its new PhotonIC family of highly integrated LED drivers.
The PhotonIC CM4600 is a single chip solution capable of driving
all the LEDs in a wireless handset...more
-20 April 2005 -
Polycarbonate angle
on data storage media
Bayer MaterialScience AG, has equipped its Optical
Disc Labs in Shanghai and Leverkusen with complete STREAMLINE
II production lines...more
- 19 April 2005 -
Plastic & nanotube displays at $3.4bn by 2009
According to NanoMarkets LC, new materials such as
carbon nanotubes and organic molecules with conducting/semiconducting
properties will enable a new generation of displays generating
$3.4 bn in annual revenues by 2009...more
- 18 April 2005 -
GaAs and MBE for bcc
nickel
Xiaofeng Jin of Fudan University, Shanghai and colleagues
in China, Italy and the US have made nickel with a body-centred
cubic structure that it is ferro-magnetic but with different
magnetic properties from natural face centred cubic structures...more
- 14 April 2005 -
Good gear gang in sma' bulk
Lord Alec Broers, president of the Royal Academy of Engineering,
chairman of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee.
Reith lectures: The Triumph of Technology...more
- 14 April 2005 -
Advice to 450nm silicon
manufacturersPaolo Gargini, chairman of the International
Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors organidation, said that
standardisation may have to go further than in the past to
allow nanotechnology to develop on 450mm wafers...more
- 13 April 2005 -
NEC develops compact transceiver
for HDTV
NEC Corporation has developed a compact 60GHz-band
wireless transceiver that transmits uncompressed HDTV signals
linking HDTV sets and displays without cable connections...more
- 12 April 2005 -
Agilent smallest integrated
colour sensor
At x5x1mm, the Agilent HDJD-S722-QR999 colour sensor
can detect the presence of a certain color and identify its
exact coordinate across the full colour spectrum...more
- 11 April 2005 -
Portable NMR sensor
A portable device that makes it possible for the first
time ever to take high-resolution NMR spectroscopy out of
the laboratory and into the field for use on samples of any
size has been developed...more
-11 April 2005 -
KDF sells sputtering
system for X-ray technology
KDF Electronic & Vacuum Services Inc has sold a leading
original health equipment manufacturer two KDF 744NT batch
sputtering systems...more
- 8 April, 2005 -
EnOcean harvests funding
EnOcean GmbH, which develops technology that enables radio
transmission without batteries or external power supply, has
received EUR10m ($13m ) for expansion of its business in the
US..more
-8 April 2005 -
Single-protein wet
bio-transistor
Paolo Facci (p.facci@unimo.it) and colleague physicists
at the INFM-S3 Centre in Modena, Italy have used a particular
bacterial protein called azurin in a strategic position between
two gold electrodes, which act as the source and drain of
a transistor...more
- 8 April, 2005 -
Aromatic gain for PSI-TEC
first-generation electro-optic material
PSI-TEC Corp, subsidiary of PSI-TEC Holdings, Inc has
completed compilation of nearly one thousand computer calculations
regarding the performance character of its novel electro-optic
material designs...more
7 April, 2005
Gordon Moore's law turns
40
The famous silicon law turns 40 on April 19 but its
creator, the great man of Silicon Valley, holds out little
pragmatic hope for silicon replacement...more
- 6 April 2005 -
Unveiling vanadium dioxide
VO2 can switch from a transparent insulator to a reflective,
metal, but it is only recently that scientists have discovered
it can occur in under 100 femtoseconds and that different
arrays of nanoparticles have different attributes....more
- 6 April 2005 -
Varian's scroll coil overtakes
solenoid in NMR
Varian Inc has introduced a revolutionary, new design for
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) probes used to determine
the molecular structures of proteins and other biomolecules
in the solid state...more
- 6 April 2005 -
China to test Trikon's Sigma
fxP
Trikon Technologies, Inc. has placed its Sigma fxP metal deposition
technology for evaluation in one of China's leading foundries...more
- 6 April 2005 -
Polishing up on UWB
laser shapes
Engineers at Purdue University engineers have developed
a technique that could mean accurate "ultra-wideband"
radio signals for ground-penetrating radar, radio communications
and imaging systems designed to see through walls...more
- 4 April 2005 -
Perpendicular recording overtakes
longitudinal
Hitachi's perpendicular recording could enable a 10-fold increase
in data densities over longitudinal recording, offering 60Gb
in one-inch drive capacities..more
-4 April 2005 -
LightPath Black Diamond overtakes
Germanium
LightPath Technologies Inc is moulding long wavelength infrared
aspheric optics called Black Diamond...more
-31 March 2005 -
SiC offers near zg
accuracies
Michael Roukes and his Caltech researchers have achieved a
method for performing mass measurements at nearly zeptogram
(zg) sensitivity...more
-29 March 2005 -
Konarka & Evident &
UHP solar cells
Konarka's research progress on polymer-based thin film solar
approach rolls on. The company is to work collaboratively
with Evident Technologies to increase the sensitivity of Konarka's
plastic cells to a wider range of the light spectrum...more
-29 March 2005 -
COLED's new organic display
materials
Two-year old COLED Technologies Inc, with recent venture capital
finance,
is claiming a significant breakthroughs in display technology...more
-21 March 2005 -
Innos develops selective
epitaxy process
Innos has developed a process that provides selective
epitaxy through the combination of silane and dichlorosilane,
without a requirement for Cl2 or HCl in the gas stream...more
- 18 March 2005 -
IBM's Millipede takes a bow
IBM' Millipede has taken its bow for the first time
at Cebit where the prototype
of the MEMS-assembly nanostore wowed its viewers...more
- 15 March 2005 -
Wedding cake bull's eye for
work function
Sematech engineers have developed a test device that
allows semiconductor technologists to measure the important
electrical characteristic of work function on a single wafer,
saving time and increasing accuracy...more
- 15 March 2005 -
Kyocera
gifts Alfred University a nanotech research centre
Alfred University, NY, will create a new fine ceramics/nanotech
research center with a $10m gift from Kyocera Corp, based
in Kyoto, Japan, and one of the largest fine ceramic manufacturers...more
- 15 Mrch 2005 -
Calypso poised for
patent
Calypso Wireless Inc has developed a new patent-pending
technology to allow users of mobile devices such as cellular
phones, PDAs, satellite radios to listen to satellite broadcasts
or wireless LAN access points, such as WiFi...more
11 March 2005 -
Tackling MOSFET thermals
STMicroelectronics and Siliconix have concluded an agreement
whereby STM will license a new PolarPAK power MOSFET packaging
technology via top and bottom heat dissipation paths in systems
using forced air cooling. Meanwhile Infineon Technologies
has launched its CoolMOS CS Server series of high-performance
power transistors,..more
-10 March 2005 -
Wire guides THz waves
Researchers at Rice University have shown that a piece
of stainless steel wire 9/10ths of a millimeter in diameter
causes terahertz waves to propagate in the space around wire...more
- 9 March 2005 -
InGaAs growth on GaAs
surface
University of Arkansas researchers are changing the
way people think nanostructures grow on surfaces...more
- 8 March 2005 -
Gemfire gets planar switch
Gemfire Corp has completed the acquisitionof Newport Opticom
Inc located in Irvine, California and its planar wafer-scale
processes switch technology...more
- 8 March 2005 -
Aixtron and IHP ally
on long-term R&D
Aixtron AG and IHP (Institute for Semiconductor Physics),
in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany, have entered into a long term
R&D alliance...more
- 8 March 2005 -
Silicon MEMS microgenerator
Innos and UK Perpetuum Ltd are to develop a silicon-embedded
self-powered wireless device to power sensors, microprocessors
and transmitters...more
- 8 March 2005 -
Silicon photonics
Bookham Inc has non-exclusively licensed a portfolio
of patents on silicon photonics to California-based Kotura
Inc...more
- 4 March 2005 -
GaAs QD detector moves to
InP
A single-photon detector based on GaAs quantum dots
developed by researchers at Toshiba's European research HQ,
could improve quantum communications performance. Next step
is to make a similar structure in InP...more
- 3 March 2005 -
Face recognition sensor
for mobiles
Omron Corp, has announced "OKAO Vision
Face Recognition Sensor", a world first in face recognition
technology which can be implemented in PDAs, mobile phones
or other mobile devices...more
2 March, 2005 -
Blue light photodetection
scores
over white for bladder cancer
A Swiss team of researchers has initiated and contributed
to development of a sub-stance that will vastly improve early
detection and treatment of bladder cancer...more
- 2 March 2005 -
Aixtron gets silicon
honours
Aixtron AG has recently received the Jean-Pierre Noblanc Award
For Excellence for its participation in the logic chips 100nm
and below Technology Project. This project was focused on
a new technology for next-generation of sub-100 nm CMOS devices...more
- 28 February 2005 -
Atom-based standards
for 50nm
Device features on computer chips as small as 40nm
wide can now be measured reliably thanks to newly developed
test structures ...more
- 23 February 2005
Sonochemical procedure
Using high-intensity ultrasound, researchers at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created hollow
nanospheres and the first hollow nanocrystals...more
- 23 February 2005 -
'Bottom-up' nanoporous
nanoparticles
The Singapaore based Institute of Bioengineering &
Nanotechnology has developed a new method to simultaneously
control the size and morphology of nanoparticles...more
- 21 February 2005 -
Virtual keyboard in
glass
A virtual keyboard that can be applied to glass is
planned to be ready by spring 2005. Two vibration sensors
are mounted on the back of the glass to detect precisely which
keys are selected. ...more
- 20 February 2005 -
Glassy liquid crystals emerge
Glassy liquid crystals (GLC) technology is licensed to Cornerstone
Research Group, for production of materials in quantities
for testing, experimental use, and product development in
displays, optical drives and 'colour tunable' filters...more
- 18 February 2005 -
Magnetic nano stainless
steel
QinetiQ Nanomaterials Limited has developed Tesimoph ES-25
- an experimental magnetic stainless steel with a particle
size of 25nm...more
- 16 February 2005 -
Silicon nano antenna
The nanomechanical structure
fabricated by the Pritiraj Mohanty group at
Boston University is the largest structure to display quantum
mechanical movements...more
-14 February 2005 -
ZirChrom Separations
new chiral chromatography
ZirChrom Separations, Inc has a project to develop a new class
of chiral stationary phases (CSPs) for analytical and preparative-scale
high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)...more
-15 February 2005 -
Lumera secures further
$1.1m
Lumera Corporation, the nanotechnology company has been awarded
a $1.11m contract extension from a US government agency to
continue development of wideband optical modulators...more
- 11 February 2005
FASwitch wows flexible
display community
Rolltronics Corp, next-generation flexible technologies,
has demonstrated FASwitch which may eliminate the need for
semiconductor transistors in some display products...more
- 11 February 2005 -
IMEC uses TFT packaging
for RF purposes
Belgian R&D lab IMEC has produced a 5GHz and 15GHz
low-power voltage controlled oscillator by post-processing
high-quality inductors on top of 90nm RF CMOS devices...more
- 7 February 2005 -
Lockhead's Center for Innovation
Lockheed Martin has nearly completed of its integration,
experimentation, analysis and visualisation Center for Innovation...more
- 7 February 2005 -
Dust Networks gets $22m
Dust Networks the provider of enterprise-class low-power
wireless mesh networking systems, has completed a $22m round
of equity funding...more
- 7 February 2005 -
200mm silicon overcapacity
Investment analysts, Jefferies & Co say that aggregate
capital spending budgets for the chip industry should increase
1% to $44bn in 2005, up from its previous estimate of a decline
of 2%...more
- 3 February 2005 -
Float-nano structures
Scientists from Brookhaven National Lab, Bar-Ilan and
Harvard Universities have grown ultrathin films of organic
chain molecules on the surface of liquid mercury and discovered
that the molecules form ordered structures...more
- 3 February 2005 -
Qualcomm ships RF CMOS handsets
San Diego-based Qualcomm has shipped handsets based
on its RF CMOS processing technology. Qualcomm's chipsets
are expected to lower the cost of wireless devices in emerging
markets...more
- 3 February -
RF chokes
Gowanda Electronics has introduced of a new series of RF surface
mount inductors designed for use in the lighting industry
and other applications where high voltage handling capability
is required...more
- 1 February 2005 -
'Lights out' laboratory operating
Robots have done a lot in labs, now experiment monitoring
moves on. Chemists at Southampton university will soon be
watching experiments from a more comfortable place than a
lab stool...more
- 1 February 2005 -
Molecular-Scale alternative
A group of Hewlett-Packard researchers have created a molecular-scale
alternative to the transistor....more
- 1 February 2005 -
OLLA for the light in 2008
Europe's answer to the US Lighting Initiative
and Japan's Lighting 21 is partly funded under the
Information Society Technologies priority of the EU's 6th
Framework Programme. It comprises upward of 20 lead European
companies and research establishments in a project to advance
Organic LED...more
- 1 February 2005 -
Flexible glass fiber
radiation sensor
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed
a new type of radiation sensor licensed to Tennelec/Nucleus
Inc which uses glass fibers to detect radionuclides...more
-26 January 2005 -
Transparent &
flexible OLET
An industry-academia alliance initiated by Kyoto University,
Pioneer, Mitsubishi Chemical, and Rohm has developed two flexible
display components: an organic light emitting transistor...more
- 26 January 2005 -
Brewer and Nantero
production
Brewer Science Inc has agreed with Nantero Inc of Woburn,
Massachusetts, to commercialise CMOS-grade carbon nanotube
solution using processes developed by Nantero...more
- 25 January 2005 -
Volumetric x-ray imaging
NASA is evaluating a new tool that has the potential
to look through shuttle wings and can "see" subtle,
potentially fatal defects invisible to current nondestructive
testing and imaging systems...more
- 25 January 2005 -
Saifun's new license
with Infineon
Israel's Saifun Semiconductors Ltd has agreed a new
license with Infineon Technologies AG for the use of Saifun
NROM technology for Infineon's line of Flash memory products...more
- 25 January 2005 -
IP Gigabit Ethernet chip
Broadcom Corp has launched the industry's first Internet
Protocol (IP) phone chip that incorporates Gigabit Ethernet
(GbE) switching...more
- 25 January 2005 -
Nokia takes Texas single
RF chip
Nokia will incorporate a single chip solution based
on TI's Digital RF processor for future mobile phones. The
cooperation allows Nokia to offer more cost-effective advanced
handsets, especially in high-volume entry markets...more
- 25 January 2005 -
Nufern optical fibers
Nufern, fiber laser, amplifier modules and specialty optical
fibers manufacturer has a new generation of highly efficient
Thulium-doped (Tm-doped) double-clad fibers...more
- 21 January 2005 -
UHS optical fibre switch
with PA
New technology developed by Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and
Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut
(HHI) has led to development of an UHS optical switch with
amplification capability...more
- 21 January 2005 -
Printing skin and bone
Made-to-measure skin and bones used to treat burn victims,
may soon be a reality using inkjets which can print human
cells...more
- 20 January 2005 -
All digital RF PAs go for
6GHz
ParkerVision Inc is introducing a new product line
of ultra-efficient, low-cost RF power amplifiers targeted
at companies that design and manufacture wireless RF products...more
-20 January 2005 -
Electro-opto polymer patent
Lumera Corporation has received the third in a series of patents
covering the company's fundamental technology which protects
the electro-optic materials and devices that Lumera is developing
and bringing to market...more
- 19 January 2005
Microfabrication
"University of Michigan research on using microfabrication
to make fuel cells began about two-and-a-half years ago,"
says U-M chemical engineering professor Levi Thompson...more
- 18 January 2005 -
Metal Rubber - conductive,
shape-shifting, smart
Conventional flexible circuits used in cell phones
and laptops fail when overused, strained, or stretched. But,
a new conductive material capable of elongating and returning
to its original form without failure is now available for
testing...more
- 18 January 2005 -
Heat spreaders
A new copper/carbon-nanotube composite - potentially
lower cost and greater thermal conductivity than diamond composites
and with excellent thermal-expansion properties - could be
attractive to electronics designers...more
- 18 January 2005 -
Multidisciplinary
factory devices
North Carolina State University chemical engineers have discovered
a way to construct new microscopic devices that can act like
factories for materials with potential for a wide variety
of chemical and biological uses...more
- 17 January 2005 -
High temperature chip
Elmos Semiconductor AG based in Dortmund has received its
first order from Japan where a large automotive supplier will
use its chip to control a motor management application...more
- 11 January 2005 -
Design kit for Agilent’s
RF CMOS
MagnaChip Semiconductor has launched a new process
design kit supporting Agilent's RF Design Environment electronic
design automation software...more
- 10 January 2005 -
Optical sensors for fuel
cells
Miniature optical sensors developed at Oak Ridge National
Lab could speed the development of fuel cells to power vehicles,
buildings and machines. The ORNL sensors are extremely accurate,
reliable and fast-responding, making them ideal for next-generation
fuel cells..more
- 9 January 2005 -
Japan's nanoscale
mechanical switch
Researchers in Japan have made a nanoscale mechanical switch
that could ultimately replace semiconductor switches in the
electronic devices of the future...more
- 5 January 2005 -
NIST magnetic with sensors
A low-power, magnetic sensor, rice-grain sized, that
can detect magnetic field changes as small as 50 pico-teslas
—has been demonstrated by researchers..... A separate
research group has developed a new magnetoresistive magnetic
sensor, in a "zigzag" shape, simpler in design and
likely cheaper to make than conventional magnetic sensors
used in portable devices...more
- 20 December 2004 -
Infineon's FinFET
Infineon Technologies AG has built the world’s
smallest non-volatile flash memory cell. The new memory cell
measures a mere 20nm...more
- 20 December 2005 -
Dual-stress liner
IBM and Advanced Micro Devices Inc have unveiled plans
to jointly develop a method for implementing strained silicon
technology on positive and negative transistors...more
- 17 December 2004 -
STM scores 65nm CMOS
design
STMicroelectronics has delivered a 65nm (0.065-micron)
CMOS design platform, allowing designers and customers to
start developing next-generation SoC products for low-power,
wireless, networking, consumer, and high-speed applications...more
- 15 December 2004 -
TCC SCoRe award for Paisley
University
Scotland's Glasgow-based The Crystal Consortium Ltd has won
a £20,000 SCoRe award from the Scottish Executive to
develop array elements based on piezoelectric single crystal...more
- 15 December 2004 -
IBM and AMD DSL in
2005
"Innovation has surpassed scaling as the primary
driver of semiconductor technology performance improvements,"
said Lisa Su, VP of technology development and alliances,
IBM Systems & Technology Group, talking about strained
silicon transistor technology...more
- 14 December 2004 -
Low power CMOS vs rad-hard
GaAs
Maxwell Technologies Inc has introduced a high-speed, high-performance,
digital-to- analog converter (DAC) that combines latest commercial
technology with proprietary radiation mitigation technology...more
13 December 2004 -
Flexible image scanner
University of Tokyo showed its flexible
contact scanner at the International Electron Devices Meeting
in San Francisco with its presentation 'A Large-Area,
Flexible and Lightweight Sheet Image Scanner Integrated With
Organic Field-Effect Transistors and Organic Photodiodes.'
...more
- 13 December 2004 -
Kyocera open new PV
assembly
Kyocera Solar Inc has officially inaugurated its solar
product assembly operations at the existing Kyocera Mexicana,
S.A. de C.V. Maquiladora plant in the Tijuana Industrial Park,
located in Buena Vista Otay, Mexico...more
- 4 December 2004 -
IBM's sGe works with high
k
IBM has demonstrated a technique that triples the performance
of a standard transistor by a CMOS compatible process to achieving
continued performance enhancement of chips and the electronic
systems...more
- 3 December 2004 -
InGaZnO transparent
semiconductors
Researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology
have moved transparent semiconductors forward with an indium
gallium zinc oxide mixture that can be deposited on plastic,
is transparent, and potentially performs one to three orders
of magnitude better than current plastic transistors...more
- 30 November 2004 -
The cell debuts details in
2005
IBM Corp, Sony and Toshiba Corp have been working together
on Cell since 2001, but have been reluctant to disclose details.
They say however that Cell will allow computers and consumer
electronics products to quickly process huge amounts of video
and other digital content...more
- 29 November 2004 -
Solar photovoltaic capacitor
Scientists from Toin University of Yokohama, Japan
have designed a device that can both convert solar energy
to electricity and store the electricity, succeeding in incorporating
both photovoltaic and storage functions in a single cell with
a thin, sandwich-type structure. ..more
- 27 November 2004 -
E1m
funding silicon sensors
SensL Technologies Ltd, a spinout from the National
Microelectronic Research centre at Unversity College Cork,
Ireland, has announced raised E1m
in an investment round led by Delta Partners. SensL develops
silicon detectors...more
- 27 November 2004 -
Nanosignals spring cleans
NanoSignal (software manipulation of raw data matrices
from MRI scanning giving up to 10x clarity and resolution
over standard software, speed up of scanning times, and up
to 40% reduction in film consumption) has held a special meeting
of its board of directors, called by chairman Dr Rupert Perrin...more
- 25 November 2004-
KIST & MIT's decade spintronics
research
The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and MIT's
Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory have launched a 10-year program
in spintronics...more
- 25 November 2004 -
Carbon nano transistor shrink
Infineon Technologies AG has achieved a further breakthrough
in its Munich laboratories where researchers have constructed
what is claimed as the world's smallest nanotube transistor,
with a channel length of only 18nm...more
- 24 November 2004 -
Shortening the 20-year PV
gap
British researchers are developing new techniques for the
production of photovoltaics (PVs) to half the cost of solar
power thanks to an $8m grant...more
- 22 November 2004 -
Graphene tilts at
GaAs
Researchers in Russia and England claim to have discovered
the world's first single-atom-thick fabric. Using graphite
crystals, a team led by Professor Andre Geim at the University
of Manchester extracted individual ultra-thin sheets of carbon
atoms...more
- 22 November 2004 -
Platinum doped silicon
for diodes
STMicroelectronics has introduced a range of STTH diodes,
for use in industrial, automotive, motor control, lighting
and power conversion applications, built with a planar, platinum-doped
silicon...more
- 20 November 2004 -
Silicon rectifiers
outperform SiC technology
Three new dual high-voltage Schottky rectifiers are offered
by Vishay Intertechnology Inc. It claims these devices offer
a 200V reverse voltage, which is said to be the highest available
voltage for a silicon Schottky rectifier...more
- 19 November 2004 -
Negative thermal ZrW2O8
The compound zirconium tungstate is outstanding for
exhibiting "negative thermal expansion," uniformly
contracting as it heats up and expanding as it cools in all
direction...more
- 16 November 2004 -
Nanotubes make light antennas
Carbon nanotubes, smaller than a nanometer in diameter, can
act as antennae, but instead of transmitting and receiving
radio waves, they pick up the nanoscale wavelengths of visible
light...more
- 14 November 2004 -
GT Solar Technologies' $9.5m
China contract
GT Solar Technologies, a division of GT Equipment Technologies,
Inc. of Merrimack, NH, has signed a $9.5m contract with Baoding
Tianwei Yingli New Energy Resources Co Ltd of Baoding, China
for its Directionally Solidified Silicon (DSS) furnaces...more
- 12 November 2004 -
Transparent c athodes
for OLEDs
BTG, the IP and technology commercialisation company
seeks an exclusive licensee for a fundamental technology that
uses transparent cathodes in polymer organic light emitting
diode (OLED) devices...more
- 12 November 2004 -
GaAs and InGaAs show spin
Hall effect
David Awschalom, professor of physics, electrical and
computer engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara,
has led a team that reports the observation of the spin Hall
effect...more
- 12 November 2004 -
Graetzel joins Solaris Nanosciences
Solaris Nanosciences, developing nanomaterials for products
that harvest light for a variety of applications has invited
Dr Michael Graetzel to joined its scientific advisory board...more
- 11 November 2004 -
Solar dish farms
Sandia National Laboratories is joining forces with
Stirling Energy Systems Inc of Phoenix to build and test six
new solar dish-engine systems for electricity generation that
will provide enough grid-ready solar electricity to power
more than 40 homes...more
- 10 November 2004 -
ASML Twinscan to Matsushita
via Hitachi ASML Holding NV (ASML) has a fourth Japanese
customer: Matsushita Electric Industrial. In July, ASML received
an order for its Twinscan lithography system for 300mm production
from Japan's largest electronics and electrical-equipment
manufacturer and home to Panasonic...more
- 8 November 2004 -
Mobile memories
NEC Electronics Corporation and its subsidiaries in the US
and Europe, have introduced its first pseudo-static random
access memory (PSRAM) device designed in accordance with (COSMORAM)
Rev.3 and Fujitsu its FCRAM...more
- 8 November 2004 -
VMRAM shock waves?
On November 11 in Florida at the Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
Conference, NVE Corporation, the US Navy and Carnegie Mellon
University are presenting a paper on VMRAM memory...more
- 5 November 2004 -
Stir but a wing and start
a crystal
According to Dr Luca Plattner, who undertook research in the
School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University
of Southampton, understanding of the way that light is reflected
from the wings of butterflies could lead to fabrication of
new photonic crystals...more
- 25 October 2004 -
Silicon light switch
Cornell University researchers have demonstrateda device that
allows one low-powered beam of light to switch another on
and off on silicon, a key component for future "photonic"
microcircuits in which light replaces electrons...more
- 26 October 2004 -
Silicon laser
Lack of a silicon laser has always been the major roadblock
in the progress of silicon optoelectronics and photonics.
Now researchers at UCLA led by Bahram Jalali, professor of
electrical engineering at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering
and Applied Science, have demonstrated the first silicon laser...more
- 25 October 2004 -
Physical browsing
Physical browsing is a new method for providing direct access
to services without the use of compliex menus or using long
addresses. Touching an object with a mobile terminal (eg mobile
phone) or pointing at the object, a child can call a family
member by pointing a mobile phone at a photo...more
- 23 October 2004 -
New plasma process
GaAs and GaN are to be the focus of a new technique
developed by Uwe Kortshagen and colleagues University of Minnesota,
US who have been working with silicon...more
- 22 October 2004 -
Graphene nudges GaAs
Researchers at The University of Manchester and Chernogolovka,
Russia have discovered the world's first single-atom-thick
fabric, graphene...more
- 19 October 2004 -
Nanowires surprises
Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven
National Laboratory and collaborators have created an OPE
wire 'bridge' between a gold electrode and a 'donor-acceptor'
molecule...more
- 19 October 2004 -
... And some from
nanotubes
TUC Irvine has announced that scientists at The Henry
Samueli School of Engineering have synthesised the world's
longest electrically conducting nanotubes...more
- 19 October 2004 -
Tailored coats for
quantum dots
Thomas Nann of the Freiburg Materials Research Center
and Paul Mulvaney of the University of Melbourne have developed
a new method to easily coat a cadmium selenide core with a
shell of zinc sulfide (CdSe/ZnS) with silicon dioxide...more
- 15 Oct0ber 2004 -
Super slow light communications
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
physicists research currently presents mathematical calculations
that prove the existence of a new class of 'soliton',,,more
- 14 October 2004 -
Thales & Alcatel secure
IP
Thales and Alcatel have announced a further technological
partnership to develop highly secure IP telephony solutions,
based on the Alcatel OmniPCX Enterprise IP communication server...more
- 08 October 2004 -
PMC memory technology
Axon Technologies Corp has license its nanoscale Programmable
Metallisation Cell (PMC) nonvolatile memory technology to
Infineon Technologies...more
- 08 October 2004 -
Carbon memory devices
Woburn, MA-based Nantero,
a startup developing electronic applications for carbon nanotubes,
has partnered with BAE Systems, the UK aerospace manufacturer,
to work on electronic devices for advanced defense and aerospace
systems..more
- 06 October 2004 -
Superhard semiconducting
Pure diamond is a perfect insulator and conducts electricity
very poorly. But, like silicon, it can be turned into a semiconductor
by traces of boron...more
- 06 October 2004 -
Antenna award
Microwave Photonics has been awarded the 2004 Wireless Distributed
Antenna Systems Technology Innovation of the Year award by
Frost & Sullivan...more
- 05 October 2004 -
FET and LED
GE Global Research Center researchers have constructed
a device that restricts the flow of electricity to a single
direction ...more
- 04 October -
Design for yield
European micro and nano manufacturing industry should to address
the problem of low yield
- Aug 1, 2005 -
Intematix Boosts Capacity for Phosphors &
Nano-Materials R&D
In response to rising demand for phosphors driven by solid
state lighting and other industries, global merchant phosphor
provider Intematix Corporation, said it is to relocate its
corporate facilities to Fremont, CA, USA. ...more
rates according to consultant Patric Salomon ... more
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