Nanotechnology : Electronics, Companies and Institutions

Scanimetrics

Admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:31:13 +0000

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www.scanimetrics.com

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info@scanimetrics.com

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Suite 4500 - 10230 - Jasper Avenue

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Canada T5J 4P6

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780 433 9441

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780 433 9499

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Scanimetrics is focused on wireless virtual probe technology to test semiconductor chips, resolving the issues and bottlenecks imposed on semiconductor manufacturers by current testing methods.

Our technology will have a profoundly positive impact on chip size; the smaller size of these products will be enabled by Scanimetrics’ chip scale communication, advanced packaging and System-in-Package (SiP) applications.

Scanimetrics, Inc., develops and markets a revolutionary non-contact virtual probe technology that helps enable Moore’s Law for nanoscale devices. Its first products are targeted at testing semiconductor chips and system-in-package (SiP) devices using micro-scale radio frequency techniques. Its WiTAP™ (Wireless Test Access Port) non-contact testing technology enables chip manufacturers to dramatically reduce testing costs, increase testing speed and reliability, and eliminate manufacturing defects caused by standard, physical contact-based testing. By supporting reduced chip sizes, Scanimetrics enables chipmakers and their customers to respond faster to market demands for ever-smaller computing, communications, medical, automotive and other electronic devices.

Based in Edmonton, Alberta, Scanimetrics works with some of the world’s largest chipmakers and equipment suppliers helping them stay on track with Moore’s Law. In October 2006, the company completed a second round of venture funding of CAN $6.5 million, enabling it to expand its market reach and accelerate product development.

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Innova Materials

innovamaterials — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:06:59 +0000

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http://www.innovamaterials.com/

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info@innovamaterials.com

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19104

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Innova Materials is a surface modification technology company that provides a simple and easily-adoptable process to functionalize plastic and rubber surfaces. This post-manufacturing spray process, called Innlay™, embeds active particles into nearly any plastic or rubber, creating durable and functional product surfaces. Applications include antimicrobial surfaces, biosensors, and RFID tags.

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Institute of Microelectronics, Electromagnetism and Photonics - IMEP

lm_nano — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:42:55 +0000

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http://www.imep.enserg.fr

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laurent.montes@minatec.inpg.fr

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Minatec, 3 Parvis Louis Neel - Grenoble, France

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38016

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+33 456 529 527

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Applied Plasmonics, Inc.

JohnT — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:43:28 +0000

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http://www.appliedPlasmonics.com

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info@appliedplasmonics.com

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3239 SW 47th Ave., Suite 200

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32608

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(352) 372-0440

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(352) 372-7609

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Applied Plasmonics, a fabless semiconductor company, has invented a practical, mass-market use for devices based on surface plasmons. The new technology employs nano-antennas manufactured in a single layer to generate visible light.

Our mission is to create selected, innovative, products that exploit surface plasmons. We develop intellectual property that enables the design, development, and fabrication of light emission devices on standard CMOS silicon, and other substrates, by exploiting the lithographic capabilities of mainstream semiconductor processing in combination with vacuum microelectronics.

Our devices are the first to permit efficient light generation on a CMOS process without the use of specialty processes. Light is generated without the need for external light sources.

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Amo

JohnT — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:53:01 +0000

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http://www.amo.de

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amo@amo.de

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Otto-Blumenthal-Straße 25

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52074 Aachen

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+49 241 / 88 67 200

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+49 241 / 88 67 560

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A new solution for miniaturized organic lasers presented by AMO and IBM

AMO GmbH, Aachen and IBM Research GmbH, Rüschlikon were able to realize and characterize optimized photonic feedback structures for miniaturized organic lasers.

Efficient organic lasers with small footprint structures demonstrate the key components of future integrated photonic devices for both, communication and sensing applications. Furthermore, they offer an attractive packaging possibility for light-emitting arrays coupled to high-density optical interconnects.

AMO, IBM and the University of Wuppertal investigated mixed-order two dimensional photonic crystal laser structures in combination with a high-gain organic polymer in terms of lasing threshold and device footprints. Based on a thin film of high-index tantalum pentoxide (Ta2O5), mixed-order structures were identified as superior compared to second-order structures. By combining first-order and second-order photonic crystal structures, losses occurring at the edge of the second order structure could be reduced dramatically, leading to a lower laser threshold and to a much smaller footprint of the laser.

Owing to their excellent optical properties and their huge potential for display, sensing, and solar-cell applications, organic semiconductor materials have attracted increasing interest in recent years. These materials exhibit low lasing thresholds and a spectrally broad gain enabling the emission wavelength to be tuned across the entire visible spectrum.

The research activities of the project partners are based on the 6 FP project OLAS (Organic electrically pumped LASer by engineering of heterojunctions in field-effect devices). The project aims at achieving foundational research on Organic Electrically Pumped Laser.

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SGS SA

Benj — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:00:25 +0000

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http://www.sgs.com/

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1 place des Alpes, P.O. Box 2152

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1211

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+41 22 739 91 11

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+41 22 739 98 86

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New trends are becoming discernible in microelectronics and other industries characterized by micro- and nanotechnology. The leading technology segments in microelectronics are gradually becoming nanotechnology. Technologies which often have their roots in the production of microelectronics are now often used in the manufacture of sensors and MEMS. And rapid developments are also taking place in the assembly and packaging of electronic and mechatronic components. In many areas of technology, thin layers and small structures are also being developed with the help of micro and nano-technological processes.

SGS offers you a wide range of services in the field of Microelectronics and Nanotechnology:

* R&D Support
* Quality Control along the Production Process
* Environmental Analysis
* Reliability Tests
* Failure and Damage Analysis
* Outsourcing Solutions
* Greentesting (WEEE/RoHS)

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Polymertronics, Ltd.

Benj — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:39:20 +0100

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http://www.polymertronics.com/

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mail@polymertronics.com

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Bloxham Mill Business Centre, Barford Road, Bloxham

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OX15 4FF

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+44 (0)1295 7245 88

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+44 (0)1295 7228 01

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Polymertronics’ nanotechnology is ideally suited for bespoke organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), radio frequency identification (RFID), photovoltaics (PV) and organic sensors such as touch. Polymertronics’ devices can be printed on the same printer platforms as UV curable coloured inks, thereby adding graphic images and text information to products.

Polymertronics offers new and significant technological advantages to the electronics industry:

· Flexible devices

· Instant UV curing

· Sputter process-free electrodes

· Free-air device deposition

· Zero-volume loss during curing

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SVTC Technologies

Benj — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:39:25 +0100

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http://www.svtc.com/

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3901 North First Street

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95134

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408-240-7000

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Working in an IP-secure development foundry, SVTC customers have access to advanced process engineering experts for specialized materials, process or integration requirements, a Process Library with over 500 process recipes for over 50 tools, 8-inch processing tools that support the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors' (ITRS) 65nm roadmap, as well as the capability to integrate new materials and processes.

SVTC Services also include its FastXfer Commercialization Services that anticipate the challenges of transferring technology into a full-scale production environment. These services leverage the experience of SVTC process engineers to expedite time to revenue while managing rework and other associated costs. Customers may choose their own manufacturing partners or leverage SVTC's Foundry Partner relationships.

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Marcy NanoCenter

Benj — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:43:15 +0100

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http://www.marcynanocenter.com/

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Mohawk Valley EDGE, 153 Brooks Road

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13441

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1.800.765.4990

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315.338.0393

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Marcy NanoCenter's 300-acre greenfield site allows ample room for a campus style layout including manufacturing, R&D, work force training and recreational spaces.

Proximity to high-tech and semiconductor clusters, access to a Greenfield site, secure water and energy sources, quality work force, three major highways, regional airports and major U.S. and international markets make Marcy NanoCenter an ideal location for a new semiconductor manufacturing facility.

Marcy NanoCenter site advantages :

* 300-acre Greenfield
* State University of New York (SUNY) campus setting
* Central to semiconductor manufacturing and R&D corridor
* 90 minutes from SEMATECH at Albany Nanotech
* Nanotechnology zoning in place
* Served by two independent 115kV substations
* 6 mgd excess water capacity
* 2,000 cfm @ 8 psi natural gas capacity
* One mile from interstate
* 90 minutes from two international airports
* Empire Zone and local incentives available

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MEARS Technologies

Benj — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:01:39 +0100

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http://www.mearstechnologies.com/

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info@mearstechnologies.com

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1100 Winter Street, Suite 4700

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02451

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+1 (617) 219 0600

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+1 (617) 219 0660

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We focus on enabling the continued improvement of silicon semiconductor performance at ever finer geometries and increased chip densities.

Our solutions incorporate breakthrough developments in quantum physics research that are applied to the real-world design, manufacturing and economic demands challenging semiconductor companies.

Our solutions are based on our extensive and patented intellectual property. We license solutions to independent device manufacturers and foundries that require low power and advanced performance at 65nm line widths and beyond.

MEARS Technologies facilitates easy adoption of its solutions through a full Transfer-to-Manufacturing program, including a suite of engineering services and integration know-how provided by our field professionals.

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ATDF

Benj — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:37:15 +0100

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http://www.atdf.com/

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general.info@atdf.com

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2706 Montopolis Drive

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78741

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(512) 356-7000

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ATDF is where semiconductor manufacturers, equipment and materials suppliers, universities, and other high tech firms from around the world come to perform cutting-edge research and development.

Our engineers develop baseline processes that bring new tools and materials to manufacturing at reduced cost. With highly customized development activities, our customers have access to the processes, electrical data and equipment necessary to bring products to market—fast.

Because ATDF helps set the Roadmap for future technology nodes, we are able to offer next-generation technology today.

ATDF Nanofabrication Capabilities:

Advanced transistor technologies

* Atomic layer deposition
* High-k dielectrics, metal gates

Non-classical CMOS processing

* MuGFET
* Nanomaterials

Cu/Low-k processing for etch, cleans, and CMP

* Wide variety of low-k materials
* Large selection of integration schemes

Electrical and analytical testing

* Parametric testing
* Bench testing
* TEM, SEM, Auger, SIMS, TXRF, FIB-SEM, ICP-MS, AFM, FTIR

Lithography

* 193 nm patterning (200/300mm)
* 248 nm patterning (200/300mm)

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SEA Solutions Limited

susmitkumar — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:00:30 +0100

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http://www.seasolutions.org/

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contactus@seaolutions.org

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32, Granogwen Road, Mayhill, Swansea

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SA1 6UN

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00-(44)-1792-641144

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00-(44)-1792475222

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VESTA Technology, Inc.

Benj — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:56:39 +0100

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http://www.vestatechnology.com/

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info@vestatechnology.com

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3003 N. First Street

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95134

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408 - 519 - 5800

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408 - 519 - 5803

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VESTA offers leading edge solutions for advanced thin-film deposition, ferroelectric materials and dry etch technologies utilizing Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), Metal ALD/CVD, and Plasma Enhanced Dry Etching. As a core ALD technology company, VESTA innovates and commercializes the processing and manufacturing technologies that helps semiconductor companies produce the world's most advanced devices with competitive capabilities and manufacturing processes uniquely tailored for their needs.

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S.O.I.TEC Silicon On Insulator Technologies

Benj — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:24:11 +0100

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http://www.soitec.com/

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sales@soitec.fr

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Parc Technologique des Fontaines

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38190

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+33 (0)4 76 92 75 00

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+33 (0)4 38 92 17 89

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Created in 1992 by two researchers, André Auberton-Hervé and Jean-Michel Lamure from CEA-Léti (one of Europe’s largest microelectronics research institutes) located in Grenoble, France. Soitec is an example of a successful move from fundamental research in the heart of a laboratory dedicated to nanotechnologies to worldwide industrial leadership in an innovative and highly competitive domaine.

Soitec exploits and develops an exclusive technological process: Smart Cut™, invented by Michel Bruel at CEA-Léti. The Smart Cut process is protected by a portfolio of around 1000 patents. A veritable atomic scalpel, Smart Cut enables the transfer of very fine layers of crystalline material onto a mechanical support.

The application of this technological procedure is used today mainly in SOI (Silicon-On-Insulator). An ultra-thin silicon film is transferred to a mechanical support, thereby introducing a intermediate, insulating layer. SOI offers two major advantages: it considerably increases the speed of microprocessors built on it and cuts by three or four times the power that these microprocessors consume.

The technological advances Soitec offers enable its clients to anticipate the mass-market electronics of tomorrow.

Who are our clients? Twenty of the most important semiconductor players worldwide, some of whom have made joint announcements with Soitec: AMD, Freescale Semiconductor, Mitsubishi Electric, OKI, IBM Microelectronics, Philips Semiconductors, Sony, Toshiba, and more. They have chosen to develop their major market applications—servers, PCs, watches, automotive sensors, game consoles, HTDV televisions, and so forth — on Soitec™ products.

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European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council ( ENIAC )

Benj — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:24:33 +0100

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http://www.eniac.eu/

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10, rue Blaise Desgoffe

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75006

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00 33 1 77 35 07 10

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00 33 1 45 48 46 81

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WHAT IS NANOELECTRONICS?

Microelectronics has changed our world drastically: computers, mobile phones, digital television, DVD players, car navigation and security features, medical screening and health care equipment have all become essential parts of our everyday lives. Nanoelectronics is just the next evolutionary step, as the number of transistors that can be integrated on a single chip reaches one billion, but it indeed represents a revolution marking a dramatic step forward.

WHAT CAN WE EXPECT FROM IT?

Products with totally new capabilities will become available for general use, dreams such as intelligent cars, non-invasive health monitoring and disease prevention, homes sensitive and responsive to the needs of the persons living in it will become available to everybody., We will get better control of our health and environment, and over the quality of our food and our air, we will be able to recognise diseases even before symptoms appear, and we will be able to be fully mobile and at the same stay constantly in touch with everybody.

WHY ENIAC?

Such developments will require completely new architectural approaches to deal with the ever increasing levels of complexity required. If the primary knowledge needed for innovation, that is the development of the enabling technology for Nanoelectronics, will be built up and retained in Europe, this will result in enormous benefits to national and regional economies of the EU Member and Associated States, in terms of industrial competitiveness, employment and the resulting general wellbeing of citizens.

A fundamental condition for such knowledge-based European leadership is co-operation and interaction between all key players: European research centres, major producers of semiconductors, materials, equipment and applications, high technology small and medium-sized enterprises, national and regional authorities, universities and financial institutions.

The European Technology Platform on Nanoelectronics and its governing structure European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council (ENIAC) have the mission to bring together all these leading players to develop and implement a coherent European vision, making the best use of European talent and infrastructures to ensure European leadership in shaping our future.

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SouthNovel, software and solutions for novel semiconductor devices design

sellier — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:54:34 +0100

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http://www.southnovel.eu/

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SouthNovel offers two kind of service to their customers.
Firstly, very advanced semiconductor devices with features raging from 2D/3D unstructured Monte Carlo simulations to quantum ballistic transport.
Secondly, we offer a consultance service for any customer requests. Very challenging semiconductor related problems are welcome.
We always find a solution to customers problems thanks to our very experienced team.
We offer transport models on demand, along with simulations and/or software on demand at very competitive prices.

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Phiar Corporation

Benj — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:15:06 +0100

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http://www.phiar.com/

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2555 55th St. Bldg. D, #104

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80301

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(303) 443-0373

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(303) 443-0753

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The materials and manufacturing processes Phiar uses are familiar to CMOS foundries, keeping costs low.

The benefits of Phiar’s proprietary technology are low cost, high performance, and integrity with supporting electronics. Phiar delivers on these promises at frequencies from DC to 3 THz, enabling our partners to develop new capabilities ranging from wirelessly syncing large data files or streaming uncompressed HD video, to using radar to help reduce automotive collisions and even detecting skin cancer.

Phiar’s 10,000 sq. ft. facility includes the company’s clean room (R&D and pilot manufacturing), as well as test and measurement labs. Currently, Phiar’s strategy is to utilize existing foundry capacity for manufacturing, as well as licensing its intellectual property where appropriate.

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Center on Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics ( FENA )

Benj — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:59:59 +0100

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http://www.fena.org/

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UCLA Boelter Hall, Room 5289, Box 1594

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90095-1594

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(310) 794 9819

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(310) 825 8621

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FENA embraces the current opportunity to create and explore the next generation of nanoscale semiconductor technology to the borders of ultimate CMOS and beyond: inventing the heterogeneous interfaces of new nanosystems, enabling a combination of biological and molecular functions, and revolutionizing the paradigms of information processing and sensing. These new nanostructured materials will provide the basis for the continued expansion of the semiconductor industry and the creation of new applications of monolithically integrated (CMOS, molecular and biomolecular) nanosystems.

FENA’s high impact, high risk and long term (>15 years) agenda makes it a unique research center. Its focused mission and objective is in line with the critical nanomaterial challenges highlighted in the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) and those facing today’s seminconductor industry.

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RASIRC

Benj — Tue, 22 May 2007 11:46:34 +0100

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http://www.rasirc.com/

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info@rasirc.com

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11760 Sorrento Valley Road, Suite E

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92121

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858.259.1220

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Unique and proprietary products have been developed around membrane technology. Attention to materials, sealing technology and whole product requirements has led to the development of products that are safer, lower cost, and out perform any alternative. Custom solutions are of interest to us.

Improving the growth rate and uniformity of carbon nanotubes is a major hurdle to transfer of this technology from research to production. The process of growing carbon on catalyst leads to self poisoning of the catalyst and cession of the process. Through the addition of small amounts of water vapor, the catalyst can be kept free of molecular contamination. This enables longer carbon fiber to be grown under the same general process conditions.

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University Wafer

Benj — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:07:57 +0100

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http://www.universitywafer.com/

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66 N Street, Unit #9

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02127

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We have wafers IN STOCK & READY TO SHIP, see below for our wafers. Test, prime, mechanical single and double-side polish specifications in research purposes and production quantities.

Virgin Silicon Wafers
Reclaimed Silicon Wafers
Test Grade Silicon Wafers
Prime Grade Silicon Wafers
Double Side Polished Wafers
Ultra Thin Wafers (MEMS)
Ultra Flat Wafers (MEMS)
EPI Wafers
Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI)

Indium Phosphide Wafers
Lithium Niobate Wafers
Lithium Tantalate Wafers
CZ or FZ Silicon Wafers
Glass Wafers
Gallium Arsenide Wafers
Solar Wafers
Silicon Carbide Wafers
Patterned Silicon Wafers
Germanium Wafers

semiconductor wafer
gold wafer
wafer fabrication
wafer processing
wafer bumping
wafer tracking
klonopin wafer
wafer card
board dss wafer
gold wafer card
tweezers wafer
tech wafer
processing semiconductor wafer
coating wafer
level package vacuum wafer
wafer fab
quartz wafer
glass wafer
wafer dicing
wafer thickness
wafer bonding
wafer alignment
300mm wafer
bare wafer
wafer holder
wafer handling
wafer flatness
test wafer
wafer foundry
production silicon wafer
polished silicon wafe