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thumbnailImec demonstrates 3D integrated DRAM-on-logic for low-power mobile applications
The 3D stack resembles as close as possible to future commercial chips. It consists of imec's proprietary logic CMOS IC on top of which a commercial DRAM is stacked using through-silicon vias (TSVs) and micro-bumps. Heaters were integrated to test the ...
today PhysOrg.com - MEMS technology

MEMS business

MEMS technology enables smaller, more accurate sensors
But price, performance and size requirements of these applications are seeing the adoption of MEMS technology. Established in the late 1970s, Finnish company VTI has been making accelerometers since the early 1990s, but has recently moved into the gyro ...
yesterday New Electronics - MEMS business
Launch of New Semiconductor Lithography Tool Incorporating TSV and ...
Canon has announced the release of company's first back-end semiconductor manufacturing tool, the FPA-5510iV for next generation 3D semiconductor packaging.
sia yesterday - MEMS business
Measurement Specialties Announces Acquisition of Eureka Environmental
MEAS uses multiple advanced technologies -- piezo-resistive silicon sensors, application-specific integrated circuits, micro-electromechanical systems ("MEMS"), piezoelectric polymers, foil strain gauges, force balance systems, fluid capacitive devices ...
yesterday MarketWatch (press release) - MEMS business
Gold pattern transfer/bonding tech for MEMS, LED packaging under dev at SUSS ...
Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo and SUSS MicroTec will have a joint booth at Exhibition Micromachine/MEMS 2011 held at Tokyo Big Sight (Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo) July 13-15 at East Hall 2, booth B-05. Tanaka Precious Metals has built a diversified range of ...
today ElectroIQ - MEMS business
3-Axis Digital Compass & Magnetometer Sensor for Mobile Devices
Baolab's BLBC3 is a monolithic CMOS 3-axis electronic compass and magnetometer leveraging Baolab's patented NanoEMS™ technology. The chip contains integrated 3D self-calibrating magnetic sensors, analog and digital processing circuitry, ...
Karthikeya today - MEMS business
Novellus Introduces Family of Conformal Films for Sub-2X nm Logic and Memory ...
Finally, Figure 2 shows a conformal oxide film being used as a TSV liner where 100 percent step coverage can be maintained on vias with aspect ratios in excess of 20:1. This exceptional step coverage allows customers to reduce the overall field ...
yesterday MarketWatch (press release) - MEMS business
MHI Develops Worlds First 8-inch Wafer Bonding Machine enabling 3 ...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has developed a fully automated 8-inch wafer bonding machine that is capable of producing 3-dimensionally integrated LSI ...
today - MEMS business
Micralyne Partnership to Boost Production and Marketing of MEMS Devices
By Mini Swamy A strategic partnership between Micralyne Inc., one of the largest independent MEMS foundries and AM Fitzgerald & Associates, a MEMS product development firm, will help customers to market high quality MEMS devices quickly and efficiently ...
today TMC Net - MEMS business
CEA-Leti makes breakthrough in RF MEMS technology
CEA-Leti announced that its RF MEMS switch technology has reached a new level of maturity in the manufacturing process. There has been an improvement in the reliability of the devices' electrostatic actuators. CEA-Leti's new switch design uses a ...
today ElectronicsWeekly.com - MEMS business
CEA-Leti and Entegris to study cross-molecular contamination between wafers ...
NEMS and MEMS are at the core of its activities. An anchor of the MINATEC campus, CEA-Leti operates 8000-m² of state-of-the-art cleanroom space on 200mm and 300mm wafer platforms. It employs 1400 scientists and engineers and hosts more than 190 Ph.D. ...
yesterday Nanowerk LLC - MEMS business
3M Increases Investment in Taiwan
In the laboratory`s clean room the company has recently installed wafer support system to offer temporary wafer bonding service to IC packagers developing 3-dimension packaging technology. The service includes examining the manufacturing process and ...
yesterday The Taiwan Economic News - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Further research needs to be done to bring nanotechnology-tuned solar cells to ...
How is nanotechnology used in these TCO layers? In order to scatter the light, we use some rough features on the surface of our films which are in the order of a few hundred of nanometers. This allows us to trap the light along wavelengths between 500 ...
today Nanowerk LLC - Nanotechnology
thumbnailNew Method for Building Complex Structures from Quantum Dots Proposed
This month Sargent along with Shana Kelley, a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto, are reporting in the journalNature Nanotechnology that they have developed a strategy by which to build complex structures out of ...
today IEEE Spectrum - Nanotechnology
Breakthrough improves potential of carbon nanotubes for batteries, biosensors
(Nanowerk News) A team of University of Maryland nanotechnology researchers has solved one of the most vexing challenges hindering the use of carbon nanomaterials for better electrical energy storage and for enhancing the fluorescence sensing ...
today Nanowerk LLC - Nanotechnology
thumbnailMaking electricity with photovoltaics
The key to the efficient operation: a specially engineered material that absorbs the heat and then — because of billions of nanoscale pits on its surface — selectively radiates to the PV cell only those wavelengths that the cell can convert into ...
yesterday MIT News - Nanotechnology
thumbnailEnergy Storage: Scientists Observe Transformation of Copper Sulfide Nanorods
Some solid materials, especially at the nanoscale, can transition between two more different phases in their crystal structure in response to temperature changes. Copper sulfide, for example, can transform from a complex hexagonal structure known as ...
today Solar Novus Today - Nanotechnology

Featured Event

IEEE MEMS 2012
Reflecting the rapid growth of the MEMS field and the commitment and success of its research community, the IEEE MEMS Conference series has evolved into a premier annual event in the MEMS area.This Conference reflects from the rapid proliferation of the commitment and success of the Microsystems research community. Call for abstracts deadline is September 13, 2011. For more information, visit www.mems2012.org.

Event Calendar

MIG Webinar: Global Analysis of the Current MEMS Market
2011-07-27
Online - July 27, 2011 at 11:30 AM ET
A global analysis of MEMS markets with a focus on the supplier landscape
Technologies for Future Micro and Nano Manufacturing
2011-08-08 - 2011-08-10
Napa, California
Stimulating domestic micro and nano manufacturing
COMS 2011
2011-08-28 - 2011-08-31
Greensboro NC
Commercialization of Micro - Nano Systems
Visit MNX at this event.
MicroTAS 2011
2011-10-02 - 2011-10-06
Seattle, Washington
The 15th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
SENSORS Tech Forum '11 Boston
2011-10-10 - 2011-10-12
Boston, MA
NASA Tech Briefs Presents SENSORS Tech Forum
MEMS in Motion Collaboration Summit
2011-10-12 - 2011-10-13
Palm Springs, CA
It's not who you know today. It's who you're going to need to know tomorrow.
MEMS Executive Congress 2011
2011-11-02 - 2011-11-03
Monterey, CA
Connecting the MEMS supply chain with MEMS end-users
Visit MNX at this event.
IEEE MEMS 2012
2012-01-29 - 2012-02-02
Paris, France
Focus on Strategies for Reducing Time and Cost of MEMS Testing
MEMS Executive Congress 2012
2012-03-20
Zurich, Switzerland
MEMS Industry Group event co-located with Smart Systems Integration
Hilton Head Workshop 2012
2012-06-03 - 2012-06-07
Hilton Head Island, SC
A Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop

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