UK-based etch, deposition and growth system maker Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT), part of Oxford Instruments plc, has completed its series of Asian seminars in Beijing, China and Hsinchu, Taiwan, attracting a record total ...
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Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) has been selected by Frost & ...
Bosch Packaging Technology has announced the completion of expansion of its vertical form fill seal (VFFS) test facility in New Richmond, Wisconsin, US. Commenced in May 2012, the $850,000 expansion will help the company accommodate two ...
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Tempered glass is about four times stronger than "ordinary," or annealed, glass. And unlike annealed glass, which can shatter into jagged shards when broken, tempered glass fractures into small, relatively harmless pieces. As a result, ...
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This fully automated bulk bag filling system provides National Type Evaluation Program (NTEP)-certified bulk bag weighing accurate to +/- .01% up to a total bulk bag fill weight of 4,500 pounds. NBE design-stage integration of ...
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Kongsberg Evotec AS, a Kongsberg Maritime company, will provide the complete back deck solution for handling of up to 20 streamers simultaneously aboard a GC Rieber owned new-build seismic exploration vessel, awarded by builder Kleven. ...
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LAST POWER (Large Area silicon-carbide Substrates and heTeroepitaxial GaN for POWER device applications), the European Union-sponsored program aimed at developing a cost-effective and reliable technology for power electronics, has announced ...
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GT Advanced Technologies Inc of Nashua, NH, USA (a provider of polysilicon production technology as well as sapphire and silicon crystal growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and electronics markets) has acquired substantially all ...
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GT Advanced Technologies today announced that it has acquired substantially all of the business of Thermal Technology LLC for purchase consideration, consisting of approximately 3.4 million shares of GTAT common stock and an earn out. ...
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In the present time, high-tech machinery and advanced technology are the two parameters to judge the expertise of any company. There are thousands of metal manufacturing and fabrication companies which are toiling hard to establish their ...
Researchers in Korea have used three-dimensional (3D) graphene foam as a transparent conductor for the p-contact of blue nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Byung-Jae Kim et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol102, p161902, 2013]. The ...
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Researchers based in China and Sweden have proposed fast chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of graphene as a route to more cost-effective transparent conducting layers (TCLs) for nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Xu Kun et ...
XsunX Inc of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA, which is developing hybrid copper indium gallium (di)selenide thin-film (CIGS) photovoltaic (TFPV) cell technologies and ‘CIGSolar’ manufacturing processes, has appointed Dr John R. Tuttle to ...
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Grenoble-based CEA-Leti (the French government’s Laboratory for Electronics & Information Technology) reckons that Europe is strongly positioned to design and manufacture volume silicon photonics devices because of the success of the ...
As Intel mulls a plan to expand its contract-manufacturing operations, the company has lost ground as the world's top semiconductor company to chip suppliers benefitting from the success of mobile devices, according to a study by IC ...