Microtechnology News articles from March 2000

Microtechnology News archives from March 2000

APPLICATIONS: Integrating MEMS and Fiber Optic Sensors.
March 1, 2000... Standard MEMS, Inc. (3 New England Executive Park, Burlington, MA 01803; Tel: 781/270-0900, Fax: 781/270-5015) said it has acquired Blue Road Research, Inc. (Fairview, OR), the leading design company of fiber optic sensors for industrial,...

MEMS Headed for Space.
March 1, 2000... Sandia National Laboratory (P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185) researchers are developing micromirrors that may eventually be part of the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), the successor to the Hubble telescope. In contrast to the...

Tiny Satellites Have MEMS Switches.
March 1, 2000... Engineers from the Aerospace Corp. (2350 El Segundo Blvd., El Segundo, CA 90245; Tel: 310/336-5000, Fax: 31-/336-7055) have established two-way communications with the smallest satellites ever released into orbit. The two picosatellites...

Multiple DSPs on-a-Chip.
March 1, 2000... Researchers at Lucent Technologies (Mountain Ave., Murray Hill, NJ; Tel: 908/582-7474) have developed a new approach to building the signal processing "engines" that will be needed in future performance-hungry communications networks. The Bell...

Nanogen Patent May Assist MEMS Devices.
March 1, 2000... Nanogen, Inc. (10398 Pacific Center Ct., San Diego, CA 92121; Tel: 858/410-4600, Fax: 858/410-4848) said it had been awarded two U.S. patents relating to high- resolution electrophoretic separation and electronic stringency control for...

MEMS Enables Five-Pound Projector.
March 1, 2000... Proxima Corp. (9440 Carroll Park Dr., San Diego, CA 92121; Tel: 619/457-5500) announced the industry's first comprehensive family of five-pound, ultraportable projectors featuring the latest Texas Instruments (TI) Digital Light Processing...

Sandia Creates First Diamond Micromachines.
March 1, 2000... They are not a suitable present for Valentine's Day, and they are too small to be a girl's best friend, but Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM) has created what are believed to be the world's first diamond micromachines. The...

FABRICATION: Maintaining Vacuum in Sealed MEMS.
March 1, 2000... Nonevaporable getters have been proposed for use in maintaining vacuum inside hermetically sealed MEMSs that rely on vacuum for proper operation. A vibratory microgyroscope is an example of such a MEMS. The proposed getters could also be used...

System-on-a-Chip Technology to Universities.
March 1, 2000... Circuits Multi-Projects (CMP, Grenoble, France; Tel: +33 476574615, Fax: +33 476473814) and ARM, Inc. (Cambridge, England; Tel +44 1223 400400) announced an agreement which enables CMP to provide academic institutions with a complete solution...

Smallest Optical Gate-Length Transistors.
March 1, 2000... Numerical Technologies, Inc. (NumeriTech, San Jose, CA) announced the successful fabrication of the world's smallest gate-length transistors produced entirely by optical lithography. The 50-nm (0.05 micron) transistor gates on the integrated...

PROCESSING: Generator Orders from Japan.
March 1, 2000... Micronic Laser Systems (P.O. Box 3141, Taby, Sweden; Tel: 46-8-63852-90) said it had received a strategic order for a MP80 pattern generator from a Japanese merchant mask shop. The company also received an order for an Omega 6000 series...

Mass Flow Controllers on Coating Systems.
March 1, 2000... MKS Instruments, Inc. (Six Shattuck Rd., Andover, MA 01810; Tel: 978/975-2350, Fax: 978/975-0093), a leading supplier of gas flow control products in the thin- film and semiconductor industries, said that Balzers Process Systems (BPS,...

More Orders for Lithography System.
March 1, 2000... Lambda Physik, a majority owned subsidiary of Coherent, Inc. (5100 Patrick Henry Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95056; Tel: 408/764-4000) and a leading supplier of laser technology, announced that it has received new orders for its NovaLine A4020 and...

SOFTWARE: IntelliSuite Cuts Time to Market.
March 1, 2000... Standard MEMS, Inc. (3 New England Executive Park, Burlington, MA 01803; Tel: 781/270-0900, Fax: 781/270-5015) said it has selected IntelliSuite from IntelliSense Corp. as one of the primary design platforms for MEMS. The combination of...

ANSYS, EUROPRACTICE in MEMS Initiative.
March 1, 2000... ANSYS, Inc. (Southpointe, 275 Technology Dr., Canonsburg, PA 15317; Tel: 724/746-3304, Fax: 724/514-9494), in cooperation with EUROPRACTICE, announced a special initiative to encourage the use of engineering simulation technology in the...

TEST AND MEASUREMENT: Pressure Points Films Indicate Dots, Microdots.
March 1, 2000... Sensor Products, Inc. (188 Rte. 10, East Hanover, NJ 0936; Tel: 973/884-1755, Fax: 973/884-1699) introduced Pressurex Pressure Points, tactile-force indicating films. Pressure Points represent a new cost-effective and convenient method of...

Award-Winning Defect Classification System.
March 1, 2000... Leica Microsystems (111 Deer Lake Rd., Deerfield, IL; Tel: 847/405-7026) received the Editor's Choice Best Product Award, presented annually by Semiconductor International, for their INS 3000 ADC NT, an industry-leading defect classification...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Certification for Irvine Sensors.
March 1, 2000... Irvine Sensor Corp. (3001 Redhill Ave., Costa Mesa, CA 92626; Tel: 714/549-8211, Fax: 714/557-1260; Website: www.irvine-sensors.com) said it had received ISO 9001 certification from the National Registry. Novalog, Inc. and MicroSensors, Inc.,...

MRS Endorses Nanotech Initiative.
March 1, 2000... The Materials Research Society (MRS, 506 Keystone Dr., Warrendale, PA 15086; Tel: 724/779-3004) has communicated its "wholehearted support" for President Clinton's $500 million research budget for a new initiative in nanoscale research. This...

GyroChip Yaw Sensor Passes Million Mark.
March 1, 2000... BEI Technologies (Concord, CA) recorded the shipment of the one-millionth GyroChip yaw rate sensor from its Systron Donner Inertial Division, according to Gerald D. Brasuell, VP and general manager. "The enthusiastic acceptance of these...

Systron Donner Ships One Million Gyro Chips.
March 1, 2000... The Systron Donner division of BEI Technologies has shipped it one-millionth GyroChip yaw rate sensor. The MEMS sensors are for automotive stability controls. Systron Donner manufactures sensor for Audi, BMW, Buick, Cadillac, Jaguar, Lincoln...

MEETINGS: AVS Calls for Nanotech Papers.
March 1, 2000... The American Vacuum Society (AVS, 120 Wall St., New York, NY 10005, Tel: 212/248-0200, Fax: 212/248-0245) announced a Call for Papers for its 47th International Symposium, being held October 2-6, 2000, at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston,...

PUBLICATIONS: CVD Handbook in New Edition.
March 1, 2000... William Andrews Publishing (13 Eaton Ave., Norwich, NY 13815; Tel: 607/337-5080, Fax: 607/337-5090; Website: www.williamandrew.com) announced the release of an important reference book, Handbook of Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD). This...

CALENDAR.
March 1, 2000... April 6-7, 2000, Commercialization of Nanostructured Materials, Miami, FL. Contact: Email: custserv@knowledgefoundation.com. April 10-11, 2000, Carbon Nanotubes: Advances in Cutting Edge Applications & Scalable Production, Miami, FL....