Coto Technology, the reed switch specialist, has brought out a MEMS reed switch. The switch has the usual advantages of conventional reed switches like zero power operation and high-power hot switching. Coto calls the switch RedRock. It ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Plasma etch, deposition and thermal processing equipment maker SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK (a Bridgepoint portfolio company) has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade. The award recognizes the ...
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Veeco Instruments Inc. is providing select financial metrics and business highlights for the quarter ended March 31, 2013. Due to the accounting review announced on November 15, 2012, the Company is unable to report revenue and earnings ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED, lighting
Samco Inc of Kyoto, Japan, a supplier of etch, CVD and cleaning systems for the semiconductor industry, says it has expanded its OPTO Films Research Laboratory in California's Silicon Valley in order to strengthen its research structure and ...
Tags: Samco, CVD, cleaning systems
Glass is everywhere: from MEMS, CMOS image sensors and power to memory, logic IC and microfluidics. Glass is widely used in everyday life and found in large quantities in many industries, such as flat panel display applications. ...
Tags: Glass Wafer Market, Glass Wafer
Cavendish Kinetics has an answer to the the widening gap between actual mobile data rates and theoretically achievable data rates. GSM in the 90s achieved actual data rates close to the theoretical maxiimum but, ever since, the gap ...
The worldwide capital equipment market fell 15% last year to $36.9bn from $43.5 billion in 2011, says SEMI. SEMI expects a flat to single-digit decline trend this year and a strong recovery in 2014. ...
Tags: Capex Flat, capital equipment
Increased spending in NAND and flash by Micron, LEDs by Philips and Osram, and continued investments by GLOBALFOUNDRIES will create new opportunities for equipment and materials suppliers in Southeast Asia. These trends will be explored at ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, semiconductor
Plasma etch, deposition and thermal processing equipment maker SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK says it has received multiple orders from several European research and development (R&D) institutions, including the Delft Institute ...
Tags: SPTS Etch SiC, Electrical, Electronics, thermal processing equipment
Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg, FL, USA has been selected by the UK’s University of Southampton to provide deep silicon etching capability for the Southampton Nanofabrication Centre (SNC), which is ...
Tags: plasma process equipment, Plasma process, optoelectronics
Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that CEA-Leti, a world-renowned research lab based in Grenoble, France, has selected Veeco’s TurboDisc® K465i Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) system for its ...
STMicroelectronics is leading the Lab4MEMS ENIAC project to develop a pilot line for next-generation MEMS devices augmented with advanced technologies such as piezoelectric or magnetic materials and 3D packaging. The project was launched ...
Tags: ST, EU Mems Project, Electronics
It's no secret that Samsung is up against Apple in many ways, in products, sales and innovation. However, even in the face of Apple's patent infringement lawsuits, Samsung is still climbing the charts. The electronics giant sold ...
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Measurement Specialties, the US-based sensor manufacturer, has introduced a digital barometric pressure sensor in a QFN package which draws only 0.6μA. Standby power of the MS5637 is less than 0.15μA at 25°C and supply voltage ...
Tanner EDA has released version 16 of its HiPer Silicon full-flow design suite, offering a complete analogue and mixed-signal design flow from digital (HDL) and analogue (Spice, Verilog-A) electrical design and simulation, through synthesis ...