Microtechnology News articles from January 2000

Microtechnology News archives from January 2000

APPLICATIONS: Device Monitors Blood Lactate.
January 1, 2000... Kumetrix (Union City, CA), a privately held medical device company, said it has received a $120,000 Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant from the Department of the Army for development of miniature sensors to continuously monitor...

"Ballistic" Nanotransistor Key to Smaller Chips.
January 1, 2000... Researchers at Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs (Mountain Ave., Murray Hill, NJ) have developed a method to significantly improve the flow of current in nanoscale transistors - a characteristic that may help the semiconductor industry continue...

24-Hr. Automated Vehicle Guidance.
January 1, 2000... Crossbow Technology Inc. (41 E. Daggett Dr., San Jose, CA 95134; Tel: 408/965- 3300, Fax: 408/324-4840) said it had received a major order from BEELINE Navigator Inc. (Fresno, CA) to provide inertial sensors for the company's precision GPS...

Display Selected for Film Festival.
January 1, 2000... Digital Projection Inc. (55 Chastain Rd., Kennesaw, GA 30144; Tel: 770/420-1350, Fax: 770/420-1360; Website: digitalprojection.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Imax Corp., announced the Sundance Film Festival has exclusively selected its...

Image Sensor on a Chip.
January 1, 2000... MTN has reported on many "systems-on-a-chip," and now comes one developed by Dutch researchers that places an image on the proverbial chip and promises to make better pictures. Herman L. Peek of Philips Semiconductors (Eindhoven, The...

RF Filter Uses MEMS Relays.
January 1, 2000... Raytheon Company has successfully demonstrated a new frequency-agile filter that delivers 25 watts of power at very high frequency (VHF), using MEMS relays to tune the filters output. The event was the first-ever demonstration of a high power,...

FABRICATION: Nanowire Arrays for Manufacturing Advances.
January 1, 2000... Nanomaterials Research Corp. (NRC, Longmont, CO) has developed a new manufacturing technology that may soon move out of the lab and into the market. With funding from the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO), the company developed a...

Wafer-Stacking 3D Circuit Interconnections.
January 1, 2000... Electronic Visions Inc. (3701 E. University Dr., Phoenix, AZ 85034; Tel: 602/437-9492, Fax: 602/437-9435) has developed the world's first 8-in. (200-mm) "face-to-face" wafer bond aligner with SmartView for use in advanced wafer stacking...

Production Facility Added at MuTec.
January 1, 2000... MuTec GmbH (Seevetal, Germany), a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard MEMS Inc. (Burlington, MA), is investing $3 million in new manufacturing facilities in Seevetal to increase its development and production capabilities to meet expanding...

PROCESSING: Increased Production of Lithography Excimer Lasers.
January 1, 2000... Lambda Physik, a majority-owned subsidiary of Coherent Inc. (5100 Patrick Henry Dr., Santa Clara, CA 5056; Tel: 408/764-4000) is ramping up production of its NovaLine K2010 lithography excimer lasers. With outstanding performance, an...

Ion Implanter Uses Less Energy.
January 1, 2000... ULVAC Japan (401 Griffen Park Dr., Methuen, MA; Tel: 978/686-7550, Fax: 978/689- 6300) introduced a new concept Medium-Current Ion Implanter, Model IW-630, for the 300-mm production line, with an economical energy range of 3-900 keV. To...

Modified Vacuum Valve Offered.
January 1, 2000... The Vacuum Products Group of MKS Instruments (5330 Sterling Dr., Boulder, CO 80301; Tel: 303/449-9861, Fax: 303/442-6880) has released an enhanced version HPS LoPro valve. The new LoPro is pneumatically actuated with a square-shaped body for...

Micronic, Fraunhofer Join in Patterning Effort.
January 1, 2000... A collaboration between Micronic Laser Systems AB (P.O. Box 3141, Taby, Sweden) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems (Dresden, Germany) will result in a new breed of pattern generators for future generations of...

ASML Wants to Be Tops in Lithography.
January 1, 2000... Dutch semiconductor equipment maker ASM Lithography (Veldhoven, The Netherlands) has its sights set on the top spot in lithography. Doug Dunn, the company's new CEO, says he would like to see the company achieve first place. "That would be a...

TEST AND MEASUREMENT: FTIR Measures Dielectric Dopant Concentration.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Nanometrics Inc. (310 DeGuigne Dr., Sunnyvale, CA 94086; Tel: 408/746-1600, Fax: 408/720-0196; Website: nanometrics.com), an industry leader in semiconductor metrology equipment, announced the addition of Fourier transform infrared (FTIR)...

New Systems for Thin Films.
January 1, 2000... Rudolph Technologies (One Rudolph Rd., Flanders, NJ 07836; Tel: 973/691-1300) introduced its new S200 systems for diffusion and thin-film deposition with MatrixMetrology, which provides an application-optimized set of metrology techniques....

Testing Systems on a Chip.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... With data rates up to 400 Mb/sec., an overall timing accuracy of +/-350 ps, and integrated, high-performance analog instrumentation, the HP 93000 SOC Series Model 400 (Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, CA) production test system provides the level...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Microcosm Receives Intel Investment.
January 1, 2000... Microcosm Technologies Inc. (Cary, NC), a global provider of MEMS development solutions for automotive, telecommunications, biomedical, and consumer electronic products, announced that Intel has invested in the company. Financial details were...

Lam Gets $60 Million Multisystem Order.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Lam Research (Fremont, CA) announced a multisystem order exceeding $60 from STMicroelectronics headquartered in St. Genis, France. This order represents a significant capacity buy for STMicroelectronics' existing R2 eight-inch fab. It also...

Cronos Gets $8 Million in First-Round Financing.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Cronos Integrated Microsystems Inc. (P.O. Box 13942, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709; Tel: 1-877-GET-MEMS, Fax; 919/465-0486) said it has raised $8 million in its first round of venture capital financing. Led by SpaceVest II L.P., other...

Oerlikon-Buhrle to Buy Plasma-Therm.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Oerlikon-Buhrle Holding AG (OBH, Zurich, Switzerland), a high-technology corporation traded on the Swiss stock exchange, and Plasma-Therm, a leading producer of plasma process equipment used for sophisticated film etching and deposition...

L-3 Com Buys Navigation Business.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... L-3 Communications (NY) said it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase, for cash, the Space and Navigation Business of the former AlliedSignal Inc., which has been merged as part of Honeywell International Inc. The acquisition also...

Public Offering, New Name for Cree Research.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Cree Research (4600 Silicon Dr., Durham, NC) filed a registration statement with the SEC relating to a proposed public offering of 2.6 million shares of common stock by the company. The managing underwriters for the offering are CIBC World...

PUBLICATIONS: Nontechnical Intro to MEMS Technology.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Artech House (685 Canton St., Norwood, MA 02062) announced the release of An Introduction to Microelectromechanical Systems Engineering, the first nontechnical introduction to the exciting field of MEMS. It describes in detail the materials...

MEETINGS: Expo to Feature MEMS March.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... A session called "MEMS Global Perspective on Technology Applications and Commercialization" will be part of the technical program at Sensors Expo in Anaheim, California, on May 10, 2000. The session will be chaired by Roger Grace, an industry...

CALENDAR.
January 1, 2000... February 7-11, 2000, International Conference on Microelectronics and Interfaces, Santa Clara Convention Ctr., Santa Clara, CA. Contact: Della Miller, American Vacuum Society; Tel: 408/246-3600, Fax: 408/247-7700. February 28-March 1,...