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thumbnailPVA Tepla and imec Demonstrate 3D Through-Silicon via (TSV) Void Detection ...
Abstract: Scanning acoustic microscopy (SAM) for non-destructive void inspection after wafer bonding improves wafer thinning performance and tool stability and can also be applied to detect voids in TSVs during processing.
yesterday Nanotechnology News (press release) - MEMS technology
thumbnailInertial Measurement Unit achieves 6° of freedom.
The six degrees of freedom is achieved by using MEMS (microelectromechanical system) technology to sense translational movement in three perpendicular axes (surge, heave, sway) and rotational movement about three perpendicular axes (roll, pitch, yaw).
today ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release) - MEMS technology
Electronics like it cold, and 30 K cryocooler delivers
The researchers, Haishan Cao from the University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands, and coauthors from Kryoz Technologies and Micronit Microfluidics, both in Enschede, as well as from the University of Twente, have published a paper on the new ...
today Phys.Org - MEMS technology
Detection of TSV voids in 3D stacked IC using acoustic microscopy
Semiconductor technology researcher Imec and PVA Tepla have annonuced breakthrough results in the detection of Through Silicon Vias (TSV) voids in 3D stacked IC technology. After having applied Scanning Acoustic Microscopy to temporary wafer ...
today EE Herald - MEMS technology
Breakthrough: micro-electronic photovoltaics
Cell fabrication uses common microelectronic and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) techniques. From 14-20 μm thick, they are 10 times thinner than conventional cells, yet perform at about the same efficiency.
admin yesterday - MEMS technology
thumbnailOrganic PV efficiency reaches 12%: Heliatek breaks its prior record
With this well-controlled, ultra-thin film process we can deposit a large number of layers on top of each other creating tandem, or even triple junction cells, to absorb a broader spectrum of light." One of the two absorbers was developed and ...
today Laser Focus world - MEMS technology
thumbnailDARPA-funded research consortium aims to invent the chip of the future
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the US government agency responsible for creating much of the framework of the internet in the late 60s and early 70s, is teaming up with the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) to grant ...
today ExtremeTech - MEMS technology

MEMS business

SPTS Technologies Reports Multisystem Order from DigitalOptics
DOC's microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) actuators automatically position lens elements within cameras to provide fast, precise and low-power autofocus on the photo's subject. Successful production of these devices, micromachined from silicon ...
today Photonics.com - MEMS business
thumbnailDARPA, Industry Collaborate to Knock Down Microelectronics Barriers
Function Accelerated nanomaterial Engineering (FAME): The FAME Center focuses on nonconventional materials and devices incorporating nanostructures with quantum-level properties to enable analog, logic and memory devices for beyond-binary ...
today Robotics Tomorrow - MEMS business

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology in Flexible Electronics
Have you ever thought of substituting that huge backpack of textbooks with a single electronic paper sheet - keeping all that data on one device folded and kept in your wallet? What about a ride in a solar-powered vehicle stretched around you like skin?
today AZoNano.com - Nanotechnology
UCLA to Develop New Nanoscale Materials for Semiconductor Components
The Center for Function Accelerated nanoMaterial Engineering (FAME) — supported by $35 million in funding over the next five years from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), a consortium of semiconductor industry companies, and the Defense ...
today AZoNano.com - Nanotechnology
thumbnailNanotechnology delivers anti-fouling surface for food factories
Scientists have successfully used nanotechnology to create a contaminant-resistant surface for stainless steel, which they claim can increase production efficiency and productivity and safeguard food safety.
today FoodProductionDaily.com - Nanotechnology
thumbnailNanoscale Gears Generate Large Forces inside Cells
To live is to move. You strike to swat that irritable mosquito, which skilfully evades the hand of death. How did that happen? Who moved your hand, and what saved the mosquito? Enter the Molecular Motors, nanoscale protein-machines in the muscles of ...
today AZoNano.com - Nanotechnology
thumbnailNovel solar photovoltaic cells achieve record efficiency using nanoscale ...
Here's how to make a powerful solar cell from indium and phosphorus: First, arrange microscopic flecks of gold on a semiconductor background. Using the gold as seeds, grow precisely arranged wires roughly 1.5 micrometers tall out of chemically tweaked ...
today Nature.com - Nanotechnology

Nanotech business

thumbnailSONIC Center awarded $30 million for computing on nanoscale fabrics
(Nanowerk News) Led by faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a multi-university research team has received $30 million to launch the Systems On Nanoscale Information fabriCs (SONIC) Center. The center – part of a new $194 million ...
yesterday Nanowerk LLC - Nanotech business

Featured Event

BioMedical MEMS and Sensors 2013
This event will focus on MEMS technologies for biomedical applications, or BioMEMS. The biomedical MEMS device market size is currently approximately $1.7 billion and is projected to grow rapidly. For more information, please go to: www.biomems2013.com.

Event Calendar

SPIE Photonics West 2013
2013-02-02 - 2013-02-07
San Francisco CA
The Conference and Marketplace for the Photonics, Biophotonics, and Laser Industry
SPIE Advanced Lithography 2013
2013-02-24 - 2013-02-28
San Jose, CA
The world's premier semiconductor lithography conference and exhibition
MIG MEMS Executive Congress Europe 2013
2013-03-12
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Co-located with Smart Systems Integration 2013
BioMedical MEMS and Sensors 2013
2013-04-16 - 2013-04-18
Cleveland, OH
MEMS technologies for biomedical applications
MicroManufacturing Conference & Exhibits
2013-04-16 - 2013-04-17
Hilton Minneapolis, MN
MIG M2M Forum
2013-05-08 - 2013-05-09
Boston, MA
The annual members' meeting of MEMS Industry Group.
Nanotech Conference & Expo
2013-05-12 - 2013-05-15
Washington DC
Mid-Atlantic Micro/Nano Alliance Spring Symposium
2013-05-14
NIST, Gaithersburg MD
"Microsystems Technology: Fulfilling the Promise"
Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2013
2013-06-02 - 2013-06-06
Austin, Texas
Celebrating 50 Years !
Sensors Expo and Conference
2013-06-05 - 2013-06-06
Rosemont, IL
Sensing Technologies Driving Tomorrow's Solutions
MIG MEMS Executive Congress U.S.
2013-11-07 - 2013-11-08
Napa, CA
Meet your next customer at MEMS Executive Congress!

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