At the SEMICON West 2014 trade show in San Francisco (8-10 July), process control and yield management solutions provider KLA-Tencor Corp of Milpitas, CA, USA launched four new systems - the 2920 Series, Puma 9850, Surfscan SP5 and eDR-7110 ...
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SoloPower Systems of Portland, OR, USA, which designs, manufactures and deploys copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) flexible thin-film solar technology, is collaborating with the US Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC) - an ...
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UK-based etch and deposition equipment maker Oxford Instruments says that an additional PlasmaPro 100 plasma etch system has recently been ordered by the Center for Micro and Nanoscale Research and Fabrication at the University of Science ...
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Malvern Instruments has launched NTA 3.0, a new version of the software that drives its NanoSight Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) systems. With an improved, easy-to-use interface, the new NTA 3.0 software makes accessing programs and ...
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One of the fundamental challenges of battery technology is that lithium-ion batteries — by far the best general option for energy storage currently in wide commercial use — are intrinsically bulky and heavy. A new research ...
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At the 2014 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Honolulu, Hawaii (9-13 June), a team at Purdue University, SEMATECH of Albany, NY, USA (the international research consortium of semiconductor device, equipment, and materials ...
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Researchers in Taiwan have produced zinc oxide/gallium nitride (ZnO/GaN) nano-rod light-emitting diodes [Ya-Ju Lee et al, APL Mater. vol2, p056101, 2014]. The researchers avoided complicated polymer processing by using a shadowing effect to ...
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Tokyo-based Showa Shell Sekiyu subsidiary Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – and the State University of New York (SUNY) College of Nanoscale ...
At the Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting & Exhibit in San Francisco (22–24 April), Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc of Westerville, near Columbus, OH, USA, which makes scientific sensors, instruments and systems for ...
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The US Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) has conducted simulations showing that nanostructures half the width of a DNA strand could enhance the efficiency of LEDs. In particular, efficiency ...
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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 ...
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About 7%-8% of the world trade is fake, and the financial value of global counterfeit markets is US$700 billion, Geert de Vries, senior manager of KPMG in The Netherlands reported during the AIPIA i2live webinar, "Active and Intelligent ...
Changing the texture and surface characteristics of a semiconductor material at the nanoscale can influence the way that neural cells grow on the material. The finding stems from a study performed by researchers at North Carolina State ...
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(Phys.org) —Like a spring connecting two swings, light can act as photon glue that binds together the quantum mechanical properties of two vastly different materials. The effect could harness the most useful characteristics from ...
The National Nanotechnology Initiative defines nanotechnology as the understanding and control of matter at the nanoscale, at dimensions of approximately 1 and 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications. Nanotechnology ...
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