Microtechnology News articles from February 2000

Microtechnology News archives from February 2000

APPLICATIONS: Emissions Sensor for Shipboard.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Ion Optics Inc. (411 Waverly Oaks Rd., Waltham, MA 02452; Tel: 781/788-8777) won a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Award from the Department of Transportation (DOT) to develop protocols and instrumentation for internal...

Micromachined Quartz Is Licensed.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... The Systron Donner Inertial Division of BEI Technologies, Inc. (One Post St., Ste 2500, San Francisco, CA 94104; Tel: 415/956-4477, Fax: 415/956-5564) has granted a limited sublicense to Toyota Motor Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) to make and use a...

Hitachi to Market NanoChip Systems.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Nanogen Inc. (10398 Pacific Center Ct., San Diego, CA 92121; Tel: 858/410-4600, Fax: 858/410-4848) and Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan), acting through its Instrument Group, executed an agreement on the full-scale commercial manufacturing and...

Sensor for Lower Pressures.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Advanced Micromachines Inc. (AMMI, 11000 Cedar Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106; Tel: 216/229-4636, Fax: 216/229-4774; Website: memslink.com) announced the first All- Media Capable gauge pressure sensor for low-to-medium pressures. The sensor is...

Micromachined Servo Accelerometer.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Endevco Corp. (30700 Rancho Viejo Rd., San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675; Tel: 949/493-8181, Fax: 949/661-7231; Website: endevco.com) is marketing the model MSA100 Servo Accelerometer that utilizes a force rebalanced sensor that offers exceptional...

Pressure Sensors from Silicon Carbide.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Pressure sensors that contain thin diaphragms made from the 6H polytype of silicon carbide (6H-SiC) have been developed at the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field (Cleveland, OH; Tel: 216/433-3484). These are prototypes of pressure...

Alliance Targets Optical Networking.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Nanovation Technologies Inc. (Miami, FL) an innovator in optical semiconductors, systems, and components, announced an alliance with Cronos Integrated Microsystems Inc., a leader in MEMS component design and fabrication. Through this alliance,...

Whole-Cell Analysis System.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Aclara BioSciences (1288 Pear Ave., Mountain View, CA 04043; Tel: 650/210-1200; Website: aclara.com), experienced in microfluidics and microfabrication, has established an alliance with Cellomics (635 William Pitt Way, Pittsburgh, PA; Tel:...

Turnkey Method for MEMS Development.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Microcosm Technologies Inc. (Cary, NC), a global provider of MEMS, and Cronos Integrated Microsystems (P.O. Box 13942, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709; Tel: 877/GET-MEMS, Fax: 919/465-0486), a developer and supplier of MEMS components and...

Micro-Chip for Glucose Monitoring.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Kumetrix, Inc. (29524 Union City Blvd., Union City, CA; Tel: 510/476-0950; Website: kumetrix.com), a privately held medical devices company, said it had received a $100,000 SBIR grant from the National Sciences Foundation (NSF). The funds will...

RESEARCH: Seeing Through a Quantum Lens.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... IBM scientists have discovered a way to transport information on the atomic scale that uses the wave nature of electrons instead of conventional wiring. The new phenomenon, called the "quantum mirage" effect, may enable data transfer within...

FABRICATION: JMAR Gets Orders for DNA Manufacturing.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... JMAR Technologies Inc. (3956 Sorrento Valley Rd., San Diego, CA; Tel: 858/535- 1706, Fax: 858/535-1853; Website: jmar.com) announced that its Precision Systems Division has received orders totaling $1.8 million from a leading DNA biochip...

Chip Stacking Saves Space.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Sharp Electronics (Hamburg, Germany) says it has developed the world's first three-chip stacked chip-size package. It is intended primarily for the cellular telephone market and handheld devices in the overall information and communications...

Real-Time Thin-Film Thickness Monitors.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Ion Optics (411 Waverly Oaks Rd., Waltham, MA 02452; Tel: 781/788-8777) has won a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a simple in situ film thickness monitor...

PROCESSING: Large Order for CVD Systems.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Mattson Technology Inc. (2800 Bayview Dr., Fremont, CA 94538; Tel: 800/MATTTSON, Fax: 510/657-0165; Website: mattson.com), a leading supplier of advanced process equipment used to manufacture semiconductors, said it had received an order...

Licensing Agreement for Design Automation.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Cadence Design Systems (555 River Oaks Pkwy., San Jose, CA; Tel: 408/943-1234) and Numerical Technologies Inc. (NumeriTech, 70 W. Plumeria Dr., San Jose, CA; Tel: 408/91910) announced they have entered into a technology licensing relationship...

CVC Gets Orders for Systems.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... CVC Inc. (525 Lee Rd., Rochester, NY 14606; Tel: 716/458-250, Fax: 716/458-0424; Website: cvc.com), a worldwide supplier of cluster tool equipment for the fabrication of thin-film heads, semiconductor devices, and optical components for the...

MATERIALS: Patent for High-Speed Materials Discovery.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Symyx Technologies Inc. (3100 Central Expwy., Santa Clara, CA 95051; Tel: 408/764-2000, Fax: 408/748-0175) announced the issuance of U.S. Patent 5,985,356 in the field of high-speed materials discovery. Jointly owned by Symyx and the Regents...

TEST AND MEASUREMENTB : Product Measures Transparent Films.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Rudolph Technologies Inc. (RTI, One Rudolph Rd., Flanders, NJ 07836; Tel: 973/691-1300, Fax: 973/691-5480) announced an order from Eaton Semiconductor for its Caliber 300, which measures transparent films on 300-mm wafers. The tool will be...

More Valves for Vacuum Products.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... The Vacuum Products Group of MKS Instruments (5330 Sterling Dr., Boulder, CO 80301; Tel: 303/449-9861, Fax: 303/442-6880) is introducing a new series of 4- in. vacuum valves. The V-100 valves are a line of 4-in. vacuum valves that can be...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Clinton Pumps Up Nanotech Spending.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... President Clinton's FY 2001 budget request includes a $227 million (84%) increase in the government's investment in nanotechnology research and development. The Administration is making this major new initiative, called the National...

Accelerometers Win Hot 100 Award.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Crossbow Technology Inc. (41 E. Daggett Dr., San Jose, CA 95134; Tel: 408/965- 3300, Fax: 408/324-4840), the leading supplier of low-cost, digital sensor solutions, has been recognized by EDN Magazine and its readers as having one of the hot...

NSF Funding Helps Nanobiotech Center.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... An agreement by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund a Cornell University-based consortium of institutions will help to establish the new Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC) in Ithaca, New York. The authorization of the award to Cornell,...

Applied Materials to Buy Etec.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Applied Materials (Santa Clara, CA) said it would buy Etec Systems in a stock deal currently valued at about $1.8 billion, its largest acquisition to date. Etec (Hayward, CA) develops technology to make masks, which are used to print circuitry...

Achievement Award to CoreTek.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... CoreTek Inc. (Wilmington, MA) a developer of innovative solutions for optical networks, said it had received Laser Focus World's Commercial Technology Achievement Award for its MEM-TUNE tunable filter. This new product is based on...

MEETINGS: Solid-State Sensor Workshop.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... The ninth in a series of workshops on the science and technology of solid state sensors, actuators and microsystems will be held June 4-8, 2000, at the Crowne Plaza Resort on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. The workshop provides a highly...

CALENDAR.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... April 10-13, 2000, Reliability Physics Symposium, IEEE, San Jose, CA. Contact: Website: irps.org. April 15-20, 2000, Society of Vacuum Coaters, 43rd Annual Technical Conference, Adams Mark Denver Hotel, Denver, CO. Contact: SVC; Tel:...