Micro Engineering & Nanotechnology News articles from April 2000

Micro Engineering & Nanotechnology News archives from April 2000

APPLICATIONS: Joint Development in MEMS Technology.
April 1, 2000... IntelliSense Corp. (36 Jonspin Rd., Wilmington, MA 01887; Tel: 781/270-0900, Fax: 781/270-5015) and Corning, Inc. (Corning, NY) have entered into a joint development agreement to focus on the design, development, and fabrication of optical...

Super Switch Routes Comms.
April 1, 2000... Irvine Sensors Corp. (3001 Redhill Ave., Costa Mesa, CA 92626; Tel: 714/549- 8211, Fax: 714/557-1260) received an approximate $1 million research and development contract to demonstrate a superconducting digital router for high- speed...

Painless Blood Testing.
April 1, 2000... Kumetrix, Inc. (29524 Union City Blvd., Union City, CA; Tel: 510/476-0950), maker of minimally invasive blood testing technology for diabetic monitoring and other applications, has combined silicon micromachining and bioscience to develop a...

All-Digital Cinema Uses MEMS.
April 1, 2000... Texas Instruments (TI, 13500 North Central Expwy., Dallas, TX 75266; Tel: 972/995-2011, Fax: 972/995-4360) says it has signed an agreement with BARCO (Kuurne, Belgium), under the terms of which BARCO will develop, manufacture, and market...

MEMS-based Optical Switch Subsystem.
April 1, 2000... Optical Micro-Machines (OMM, 9645 Scranton Rd., San Diego, CA 92121; Tel: 858/320-7100, Fax: 858/457-0853) announced that the company's optical switch subsystems were selected by Siemen's Information and Communications Networks Group for use...

Investments for Wireless Internet.
April 1, 2000... Microvision, Inc., (19910 North Creek Pkwy., Bothell, WA 98011; Tel: 425/415- 6847, Fax: 425/415-6600) said that Cree, Inc. and General Electric Pension Trust (GEPT) have agreed to invest $25 million to accelerate the development of...

Nanometer Materials Create Biocavity Laser.
April 1, 2000... A "smart scalpel" device intended to detect the presence of cancer cells as a surgeon operates on a tumor obscured by blood, muscle, and fat has been developed in prototype form by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National...

High-Performance, Solid-State Vertical Gyro.
April 1, 2000... Crossbow Technology, Inc. (41 E. Daggett Dr., San Jose, CA 95134; Tel: 408/324- 4830, Fax: 408/324-4840), introduced the DMU-HDX high-performance, solid-state vertical gyro. The product is the first of a family of inertial subsystems with...

Portable Lab Fits in the Palm.
April 1, 2000... A powerful new portable chemical analysis devices that fits into the palm of a hand is being developed by the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratory (Albuquerque, NM; Tel: 505/844-0948) and was presented at the annual meeting of the...

FABRICATION: Better Quantum Dots from Sandia.
April 1, 2000... Sandia National Laboratories Principal Investigator Jerry Floro (1515 Eubank Blvd. S.E., Albuquerque, NM 87123; Tel: 505/844-1197) recently described the facility's progress in using quantum dot technology fundamentals. The discoveries could...

Low-Temp Wafer Bonding for MEMS.
April 1, 2000... EV Group, Inc. (formally Electronic Visions, 3701 E. University, Phoenix, AZ 85034; Tel: 602/437-0492, Fax: 602/437-9435) and Ferro Electronic Materials (27 Castilian Dr., Santa Barbara, CA 93117; Tel: 805/968-5000, Fax: 805/968-8625) are...

PROCESSING: SOI Production Expanded.
April 1, 2000... EV Group (EVG, Austria) and Silicon-On-Insulator Technologies (SOITEC) announced a multimillion dollar order for continuing their relationship and increasing SOITEC's SOI (silicon-on-insulator) manufacturing capacity. The new high- production,...

SOFTWARE: End-to-End MEMS Development Expanded.
April 1, 2000... Microcosm Technologies (4001 Weston Pkwy., Cary, NC 27513; Tel: 919/854-7500, Fax: 919/854-7501) said that Applied Microengineering, Ltd. (AML, Oxfordshire, U.K.), Exponent, Inc. (Natick, MA), and Teledyne (Los Angeles, CA) have joined...

Better Development Integration.
April 1, 2000... ANSYS, Inc. (Southpointe, Canonsburg, PA; Tel: 724/514-1785), the leader in design analysis software, and Microcosm Technologies (4001 Weston Pkwy., Cary, NC 27513; Tel: 919/854-7500), the leader in MEMS development software, announced a...

MATERIALS: Oxygen Sensitivity Leads to Nanotube Applications.
April 1, 2000... A new study on the electronic properties of carbon nanotubes, which are hollow cylinders of pure carbon about 50,000 times more narrow than a human hair in diameter, indicates that these materials may be even more versatile than anyone had...

Ultra-Small Silicon Nanoparticles.
April 1, 2000... Researchers at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign; Tel: 217/244-1073) have developed a process for converting bulk silicon into ultra-small, nano-size particles. The nanoparticles - which are about one billionth of a meter in...

TEST AND MEASUREMENT: Mask Aligner Gives Precise Measurement.
April 1, 2000... Optical Associates, Inc. (1425 McCandless Dr., Milpitas, CA 95035; Tel: 408/263- 444, Fax: 408/263-6389) introduced the Model 5000, fully automated contact/proximity mask aligner with Windows NT. It is a high-performance aligner designed to...

Increased Orders for Copper Metrology Tools.
April 1, 2000... Rudolph Technologies, Inc. (One Rudolph Rd., Flanders, NJ 07836; Tel: 973/691- 1300, Fax: 973/691-5480) announced a multimillion dollar, multiple tool order from a repeat customer for the company's industry-leading line of copper film...

Defect Review Is Improved.
April 1, 2000... Leica Microsystems (111 Deer Lake Rd., Deerfield, IL 60015; Tel: 847/405-7026), headquartered in Wetzlar, Germany, and Lasertec Corp. of Yokohama, Japan, have jointly developed a Reticle Defect Review Interface, which allows users of Leica's...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Crossbow Strengthens Technology Team.
April 1, 2000... Crossbow Technology (41 E. Daggett Dr., San Jose, CA 95134; Tel: 408/324-4830), the leading supplier of low-cost, intelligent digital sensor solutions, named two sales managers to serve the company's rapidly growing customer base in North...

Profit, Opportunity in Optical MEMS.
April 1, 2000... Optical MEMS combines two potentially lucrative areas of engineering - MEMS and photonics. According to Technical Insights, a unit of John Wiley and Sons, Inc., the technology will, in itself, bring handsome profits to the innovators and...

Berkeley Offers MEMS Course.
April 1, 2000... UC Berkeley is offering its first Summer Engineering Institute. The six-week program will be held on the Berkeley, California, campus from June 5 through July 15, 2000. A collaboration between the University's College of Engineering and the...

New Executives at Optical Micro-Machines.
April 1, 2000... Optical Micro-Machines (San Diego, CA) announced the appointment of Conrad Burke to the position of senior vice president of marketing and sales, and Chris Lepiane joins OMM as VP of sales. Burke was director of marketing for the optical...

Seligman Invests in Microcosm.
April 1, 2000... Microcosm Technologies (Cary, NC) announced investments of $20 million in venture capital. J. & W. Seligman led the round with an investment of over $7.5 million. Other major investors included Gemini Investors, Kingdon Capital Management, and...

Nortel Gets CoreTek for $1.43 Billion.
April 1, 2000... MEMS technology for optical networking was in the news again as Nortel Networks (Brampton, Ontario) announced an agreement to acquire CoreTek (Wilmington, MA), a pioneer in strategic optical components, for up to $1.43 billion in Nortel...

CALENDAR.
April 1, 2000... April 17-19, 2000, Micromat 2000, Berlin. Contact: Website: www.micromaterials.com. June 4-8, 2000, Solid-State Sensor & Actuator Workshop, Hilton Head, SC. Contact: Preferred Meeting Management, 2320 6th Ave., San Diego, CA; Tel:...

Single-Molecule Magnets Produced.
April 1, 2000... Several new single-molecule magnets have been discovered by George Christou and James H. Rudy, professor of Chemistry at Indiana University (Bloomington, IN 47405; Tel: 812/855-0074), and his research group. Single-molecule magnets (SMMs) have...

NEMI's Roadmap Includes MEMS.
April 1, 2000... The National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (NEMI) kicked off Roadmap 2000 with a day-long working session in Long beach, California. An estimated 140 individuals representing more than 60 OEMs, electronics manufacturing services (EMS)...

PUBLICATIONS: MRS Documents Nano Semiconductors.
April 1, 2000... Just published by the Materials Research Society, Microcrystalline and Nanocrysatalline Semiconductors-1998, the fifth in a series, documents symposium reports from the 1998 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, and contains 89 papers...