Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) – has announced the availability of the UltraCMOS PE42020, which is ...
Tags: mechanical relays, micro-electro-mechanical systems, Electrical
Evatec Ltd of Flums, Switzerland, which makes thin-film deposition and etch processing equipment for semiconductor, MEMS, optical and optoelectronic applications, has agreed to acquire the Advanced Technologies Segment of Oerlikon of ...
Tags: deposition systems, packaging, Electrical
American snack maker Snyder's-Lance has completed $10m upgrade to its Cape Cod Potato Chips production facility in Hyannis, Massachusetts. Work under the improvements included the installation of new cooking kettles and energy-saving ...
Tags: Snyder's-Lance, improvements, Hyannis plant
At a ceremony on 23 October at Mercure Holland House Hotel in Cardiff (organized by UK-based business publisher Insider Media Ltd), plasma etch, deposition and thermal wafer processing equipment maker SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, ...
Tags: SPTS, Green Manufacturer Prize
Orbotech has completed the acquisition of SPTS Technologies Group which works in the areas of advanced packaging and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). The company said that the acquisition of SPTS would help them as the latter is a ...
In respondse to external demand, Tokyo-based machinery manufacturer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) has launched wafer bonding services using its wafer bonding systems, which have been developed in-house and are capable of bonding ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, machinery
Pressure transducers have become an invaluable tool for the protection and optimization of industrial equipment, converting fluid pressure into variable electrical signals that can monitor and control a system. Nevertheless, while existing ...
Tags: Pressure transducers, Tools, Hardware, Pressure Sensors
A micro-electrical-mechanical systems (MEMS) device includes a substrate, one or more anchors formed on a first surface of the substrate, and a piezoelectric layer suspended over the first surface of the substrate by the one or more ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Capacitor, Switch, Electric Conductor
With silicon-on-insulator (SOI) business declining, 3D TSV stack implementation beginning, and the competitive environment changing, market research firm Yole Développement has released a new study 'Permanent Wafer Bonding for ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Altatech Semiconductor S.A. of Montbonnot, near Grenoble, France (a subsidiary of Soitec since January 2012) has received an order from the University of Washington in Seattle for an AltaCVD chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system, whose ...
Tags: CVD System, Process Materials
A team of University of Innsbruck researchers discovered that even simple systems, such as neutral atoms, can possess chaotic behavior, which can be revealed using the tools of quantum mechanics. The ground-breaking research, published in ...
Over the past 40 years Wohl Associates, a family-owned and operated business, has become an industry leader selling used packaging and processing machines. The company has a constantly updated inventory that meets the needs of many ...
When it comes to storing energy on the grid, giant batteries are the only game in town. Now, a number of companies are building mechanical systems that use air as the storage medium. U.K.-based Highview Power Storage last week said that ...
Tags: Liquefied Air, Electronics
Two Tsurumi TRN aerator systems were installed at one of the biggest private beer breweries in Bavaria, to provide biological wastewater treatment. German brewers are renowned and celebrated all over the world for their home grown beers, ...
After two years of difficult and meticulous work examining, refurbishing, and testing the aging workhorse watt balance called NIST-3, PML researchers have used the instrument to obtain their latest measured value of the Planck constant ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics