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Microfluidic Fuel Cells Could Power Remote Sensors and Portable Electronics

Microfluidic fuel cells could provide the necessary energy to provide continuous power to remote sensors, mobile phones and laptops, according to a University of Southampton student, who will graduate on Friday (17 July)...

14 Jul 2009

HamaTech Release World's Most Advanced Photomask Processing System

HamaTech Advanced Process Equipment (APE) GmbH + Co. KG, today announced its most advanced photomask processing system, the MaskTrack Pro, which extends the technology of HamaTech's highly successful MaskTrack System...

14 Jul 2009

Breakthrough Thin-Film Photovoltaic Technology May Use HDD Manufacturing Capacity

XsunX, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: XSNX), an established solar company, today announced that it is developing a breakthrough thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) cross-industry technology that may soon utilize the excess manufact...

14 Jul 2009

Applied Materials to Help Chipmakers Overcome Technical Barriers on Tight R+D Budgets

While the current economic environment is imposing severe constraints on the semiconductor equipment industry, the primary driver for increasing profitability for leading-edge chipmakers is still Moore's Law. However...

From Applied Materials Inc 14 Jul 2009

sp3 Diamond Technologies Extends Diamond Coating Capabilities

sp3 Diamond Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier of diamond film products, equipment and services, today announced that its chemical vapor deposition (CVD) deposition capability has been expanded to provide diamond coa...

14 Jul 2009

IMEC Establishes Partnerships with Solar Cell Manufacturers

IMEC today announced that it has established new partnerships with solar cell material and equipment suppliers. These companies, including MEMC Electronic Materials Inc., Leybold Optics Dresden GmbH, Roth + Rau AG, and Mallinckrodt Baker B.V., have concluded joint-development agreements with IMEC in the frame of IMEC's newly launched wafer-based silicon photovoltaics industrial affiliation program (IIAP).

From IMEC 14 Jul 2009

Suss Partner to Develop Bonding Processes for 3D System Integration

SUSS MicroTec (FWB:SMH)(GER:SMH), a leading supplier of process and test solutions for the semiconductor and related industries, and the Belgian nanoelectronics research center IMEC have entered a joint development progr...

From Focuslight Technologies Inc. 14 Jul 2009

ESI Bolsters 3D IC Packaging and Memory Repair Product Offerings

Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq:ESIO), a leading provider of world-class photonic systems for microengineering, today announced that it has bolstered its technology offerings for both its 3D IC packaging and ...

14 Jul 2009

Nanometrics Delivers Metrology System with Advanced Film Capability

Nanometrics Incorporated (Nasdaq: NANO), a leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of high-performance process control metrology systems used primarily in the manufacturing of semiconductors, solar photovoltaics ...

14 Jul 2009

Video Demonstration Shows Enabling Technology for Smart Nanobattery

mPhase Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:XDSL), is focused on developing and commercializing a new battery technology based on a well-patented phenomenon known as electrowetting, today released a video demonstrating that a liqui...

14 Jul 2009

New Program to Develop GaN Technology for Power Conversion and Solid State Lighting

IMEC today announces the launch of a new industrial affiliation program (IIAP) that will focus on the development of GaN technology for both power conversion and solid state lighting applications.

14 Jul 2009

IMEC Extends EUV Lithography Research program

IMEC today announced that it is extending its EUV (extreme ultra-violet) lithography research program with a parallel dedicated EUV mask cleaning research program. The program will build on a new collaboration between IM...

From IMEC 14 Jul 2009

New Styrene Based Polymers for Food Contact Applications

Since June 1, 2009, BASF is offering three new products in Europe in its line of styrenic specialties approved specifically for food contact applications. These are the ASA grades Luran® S 777 K FC, Luran S 757 G FC and Luran S 797 S FC (ASA: acrylonitrile-styrene-acrylic ester copolymer).

From BASF Corporation 14 Jul 2009

Polyvinyl Alcohol, All You Need to Know about This Biodegradable Polymer

iSmithers Rapra Publishing has announced the release of Polyvinyl Alcohol: Materials, Processing and Applications. For a number of years, plastic wastes have been accumulating at such a rate that there are now huge en...

From Smithers Rapra Technology Ltd 14 Jul 2009

Exxon Mobil Looking into Next Generation Biofuels

Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) announced today an alliance with leading biotech company, Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI), to research and develop next generation biofuels from photosynthetic algae. "This inve...

14 Jul 2009