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Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.

Benj — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 17:42:11 +0000

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http://www.advanced-energy.com/

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1625 Sharp Point Drive

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80525

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800.446.9167

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970.407.6550

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Advanced Energy (AE) offers a comprehensive suite of focused technologies critical to high-technology manufacturing processes worldwide. AE's suite of products is critical to the production of semiconductors, flat panel displays, data storage products, compact discs, digital video discs, architectural glass, and other advanced product applications. Leveraging its diverse product portfolio, AE offers solutions that maximize process impact, improve productivity, and lower cost of ownership for its customers. This portfolio includes solutions in power, flow and thermal management, plasma and ion beam sources, and integrated process monitoring and control for original equipment manufacturers and end-users around the world.

AE operates in regional centers in North America, Asia, and Europe and offers global sales and support through direct offices, representatives, and distributors. Founded in 1981, AE is publicly held and traded on NASDAQ as AEIS. AE continues to enter new markets through strategic acquisitions and partnerships, as well as to internally develop proprietary, process-focused technologies—all key elements that further strengthen the company's position in process-critical, scalable, highly-patented technologies.

For the semiconductor and related industries, AE is the market-share leader for process power and a market leader in thermal management and gas flow. AE continually develops proprietary technology for process power, thermal management, source technology, and gas flow. In fact, our development efforts for the gas flow market were rewarded with our PrimAera digital mass flow controller being named one of MICRO magazine's Top 25 Product All-Stars for 2002.

For the very large-scale integration (VLSI) markets, AE is expanding our proprietary development of high-end power supply technologies for computing, data communications, and automated test equipment.

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ASML Netherlands B.V.

Benj — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:44:09 +0000

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http://www.asml.com/

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corpcom@asml.com

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De Run 6501

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+31 40 268 3000

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+31 40 268 2000

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ASML designs, develops, integrates, markets and services advanced systems used by customers – the major global semiconductor manufacturers – to create chips that power a wide array of electronic, communications and information technology products.

With every generation, the complexity of producing integrated circuits with more functionality increases. Semiconductor manufacturers need partners that provide technology and complete process solutions. ASML is committed to providing customers with leading edge technology that is production-ready at the earliest possible date. ASML technology is supported by process solutions, enabling customers to gain and sustain a competitive edge in the marketplace.

ASML’s corporate headquarters is in Veldhoven, the Netherlands. Manufacturing sites and research and development facilities are located in Connecticut, California and the Netherlands. Technology development centers and training facilities are located in Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Taiwan and the United States. Additionally, ASML provides optimal service to its customers via over 50 sales and service organizations in 16 countries.

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Altair Nanotechnologies Inc.

Benj — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:21:08 +0000

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http://www.altairnano.com/

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204 Edison Way

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89502

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+1.775.856.2500

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Altair Nanomaterials' key asset is its team of highly motivated and experienced researchers and scientists. The team has a broad background of research and production experience in the materials science and natural resources fields that enables it to achieve quick success in the development of advanced materials. The core research group has worked together on pigment and nanomaterials development for over eight years.

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Novellus Systems, Inc.

Benj — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:22:33 +0000

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http://www.novellus.com/

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info@novellus.com

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4000 North First Street

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95134

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(408) 943-9700

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The company’s legacy CVD, PVD, and ECD products are used to deposit extremely thin films of insulating and conductive materials that are used to create the wiring on a chip. Other Novellus products are used to clean the surface of the chip in-between manufacturing steps (surface preparation), to polish the surface of the device to ensure a flat (planar) surface (CMP), or to post-treat deposited films in order to improve mechanical properties (UVTP). As circuit geometries decrease in size, the deposition, surface preparation, CMP, and film treatment systems manufactured by Novellus become increasingly critical technologies for manufacturing advanced semiconductor devices.

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Applied Materials

Benj — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:25:53 +0000

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http://www.appliedmaterials.com/

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3050 Bowers Avenue, P.O. Box 58039

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95054-3299

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1-408-748-5227

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1-408-563-4606

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As a core information infrastructure company, Applied Materials innovates and commercializes the processing and manufacturing technology that helps semiconductor manufacturers produce the world's most advanced chips.

Applied's service products include equipment maintenance, materials supply and management, parts refurbishment, equipment remanufacturing, yield enhancement, training and other solutions for increasing semiconductor manufacturing productivity.

To support customers around the world, Applied Materials employs approximately 12,600 people in over 65 locations throughout China; Europe and Israel; India, Malaysia and Singapore; Japan; Korea; Taiwan; and the United States.

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Nanogen, Inc.

Benj — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:19:02 +0000

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http://www.nanogen.com/

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10398 Pacific Center Court

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92121

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877-626-6436

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858-410-4952

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Howard Birndorf

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Nanogen's mission is to become a leading supplier of molecular diagnostic tests to the medical community and to clinical researchers. We commercialize instruments, consumables, electronic microarrays and reagents through a direct sales force and distributors in North America, Europe and Asia. We also provide a highly experienced technical support staff and Field Application Specialists dedicated to helping our customers around the world.

The NanoChip Molecular Biology Workstation, our first commercial product, is an automated, multi-purpose instrument primarily used for DNA-based analyses. Researchers in the field of molecular biology and genetics use the platform to study how genes function and to understand the correlation between genetic variation and disease. The NanoChip System can also be used for human identification, important in the forensics field.

Our system is uniquely bridging the gap between early-stage scientific research and actual clinical practice, delivering certainty, control and consolidation.

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Nanophase Technologies Corporation

Benj — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:14:43 +0000

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http://www.nanophase.com/

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sales-marketing@nanophase.com

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1319 Marquette Drive

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60446

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+1-630-771-6700

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+1-630-771-0825

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Nanophase Technologies is an industry-leading nanocrystalline materials innovator and manufacturer with an integrated family of nanomaterial technologies. The entire focus of Nanophase is nanotechnology, with two distinct and patented processes for the preparation and commercial manufacturing of nanopowder metal oxides i.e. Aluminum Oxide, Zinc Oxide, Cerium Oxide, Titanium Dioxide, and several others. Nanophase Technologies Corporation has developed a process, Discrete Particle Encapsulation, to coat the surface of its nanoparticles with a thin polymeric shell that enables compatibility of the particles with a wide variety of fluids, resins and polymers. Also, Nanophase has developed technology to permit the dispersion of its nanoparticles in water and a variety of polar and non-polar organic fluids. This allows Nanophase to supply concentrated, ready-to-use nanoparticle dispersions, eliminating the need for customers to disperse the nanoparticles themselves. Nanophases family of integrated technologies economically produces nanocrystalline materials, and then nanoengineers those materials to fit a customer need.

An enhanced capability of Nanophase is our ability to process complex multi-component materials. This process has demonstrated the ability to produce homogeneous mixed metal oxide nanopowders where the component materials form solid solutions with well-defined single crystalline phases. Nanocrystalline metal oxides having up to four metallic elements have been successfully produced. Nanophase has the capability to produce a wide variety of single-phase pure and mixed rare earth oxides, as well as pure and mixed transition metal oxides and main group metal oxides. The materials produced by this process have application in ultrafine polishing and chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP), catalysis, fuel cells, electronic materials, and advanced imaging.

All of Nanophase's facilities and practices are certified to the latest ISO 9001:2000 international standards. Where applicable, Nanophase facilities are cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practices) compliant and the Company is registered as a drug ingredient manufacturer with the FDA. Nanophase's facilities are designed for flexibility and growth, and to maintain concise product/process flow. Since our processes are modular, there is ample room for expansion and fundamental infrastructure exists for a further 100% growth with minimal additional cost. Nanophase's processes are tightly controlled using statistical process control (SPC) under our Lean Six-Sigma Manufacturing discipline and are demonstrably scalable, cost effective and robust.

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Advanced Magnetics, Inc.

Benj — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:08:59 +0000

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http://www.advancedmagnetics.com/

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61 Mooney St.

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02138

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(617) 497-2070

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(617) 547-2445

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Combidex is our investigational molecular imaging agent consisting of iron oxide nanoparticles for use in conjunction with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to aid in the differentiation of cancerous from non-cancerous lymph nodes. Combidex received an approvable letter, subject to certain conditions, from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in June 2000. In September 2004, we submitted a complete response to the approvable letter, which was accepted by the FDA and assigned a user fee goal date of March 30, 2005.

Ferumoxytol, the next-generation product in our development pipeline, is currently in Phase III multi-center clinical trials for use as an iron replacement therapeutic in anemic chronic kidney disease patients, whether or not on dialysis. Exploratory Phase II clinical trials of ferumoxytol for use as a contrast agent in magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) are currently ongoing.

Feridex I.V.О®, our liver contrast agent, is approved and marketed in Europe, Japan, the United States and other countries. GastroMARK, our oral contrast agent used for delineating the bowel in MRI, is approved and marketed in Europe, the United States and other countries.

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Genus, Inc. ( merged with AIXTRON AG )

Benj — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:54:36 +0000

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http://www.genus.com/

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1139 Karlstad Drive

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94089

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Established in 1981, Genus, Inc. (Nasdaq: GGNS) designs, manufactures and markets capital equipment and deposition processes for advanced semiconductor manufacturing as well as for other, emerging non-semiconductor applications.

We offer various thin film deposition modules with our own production-proven platform- the LYNX2 for 200mm wafers and more recently, the LYNX3О™ for 300mm wafers. These systems deliver processes for chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and atomic layer deposition (ALD) of conducting (metal) or insulating (dielectric) materials.

Our core business has been in the area of tungsten-based thin films used in the development and manufacture of memory modules (DRAM) in the semiconductor industry. However our ALD technology is gaining attention and acceptance within and beyond the semiconductor industry. With precise control capabilities and conformal step coverage of difficult high-aspect ratios, our ALD technology promises to enable near-and next-generation geometries that continue to shrink in both the semiconductor world and other industries.

In mid-2000, the company expanded marketing efforts for our ALD technology to new customers for a variety of applications beyond the memory segment of the semiconductor industry. By Q1 2001, we achieved penetration of the data storage industry for gap dielectric applications in disk drive recording heads. Additionally, we received purchase orders for ALD systems for use in logic gate applications for both 200mm and 300mm platforms. See the Markets section for further discussion on the potential of our ALD technology.

The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California (Silicon Valley), with service offices in Korea, Japan and Taiwan, and sales offices worldwide.

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Spansion LLC

Benj — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:12:58 +0000

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http://www.spansion.com/

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915 Deguigne Drive, PO Box 3453

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94088 3453

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+1 408 962 2500, +1 866 SPANSION

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Spansion is dedicated to enabling, storing and protecting digital content in the automotive, consumer electronics, networking and wireless markets. As the largest company exclusively focused on Flash memory solutions, Spansion has one of the most diverse and comprehensive Flash product lines on the market.

By leveraging cutting-edge advancements such as the award-winning MirrorBit™ technology, Spansion has successfully developed cost-effective, smaller and more powerful product offerings designed for reliable code execution and data storage. Offering a NOR architecture for code and ORNAND™ architecture for scalable data storage, Spansion’s customers can maintain a common platform and scale the amount of data storage necessary for various applications.

Our world-class, system-level design support leverages the expertise of a dedicated software development team and design engineers to partner with customers and complementary silicon and software providers to optimize systems that incorporate Flash memory. These offerings come with world-class sales, customer service and technical support.

Spansion, publicly traded on NASDAQ [SPSN], was previously a joint venture of AMD and Fujitsu and draws upon a rich history of technological innovation and market leadership that dates back to the early days of the Flash market. Spansion has approximately 8,300 employees around the globe.

Spansion is solely focused on the integrated electronics market, in which Flash memory resides in the device. In this market segment, customers value differentiated systems with high quality and performance. Blue chip customers in the integrated segment who use Spansion Flash memory products include the top 10 original equipment manufacturers for automotive electronics, consumer electronics and handsets.
By leveraging cutting-edge advancements such as the award-winning MirrorBit™ technology, Spansion has successfully developed cost-effective, smaller and more powerful product offerings designed for reliable code execution and data storage. Offering a NOR architecture for code and ORNAND™ architecture for scalable data storage, Spansion’s customers can maintain a common platform and scale the amount of data storage necessary for various applications.

Advanced manufacturing capabilities, four dedicated production Flash memory wafer fabs and a development fab enable us to accelerate the introduction of next-generation technologies. As a result, Spansion has developed highly scalable solutions that provide a smooth migration path to future products and technologies over time to meet customers’ evolving requirements.
Our world-class, system-level design support leverages the expertise of a dedicated software development team and design engineers to partner with customers and complementary silicon and software providers to optimize systems that incorporate Flash memory. These offerings come with world-class sales, customer service and technical support.

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Accelrys, Inc.

Benj — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:27:48 +0000

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http://www.accelrys.com/

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10188 Telesis Court, Suite 100

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92121

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+1 858 799 5000

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+1 858 799 5100

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Accelrys, Inc.(NASDAQ: ACCL), formerly Pharmacopeia, Inc., incorporated in 1993, develops and commercializes scientific software and technology that accelerates and improves drug discovery and chemical development. The Company's molecular modeling, simulation, informatics, workflow and data pipelining software supports both the life sciences and materials research markets. Its life science solutions support pharmaceutical biotechnology companies, while its material science solutions support companies that develop companies that develop and optimize materials and chemicals, such as companies serving the chemicals, petrochemicals, food, personal care products, electronics and nanotechnology industries.

Accelrys' software covers a range of disciplines, including gene sequence analysis, proteomics, rational drug design, lead optimization, materials research and formulation design. These software products help researchers increase the speed and efficiency of the research and development cycle. Accelrys' software customers include government and academic institutions, as well as commercial organizations within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, petroleum and semiconductor sectors. Accelrys has active license agreements with a number of chemical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical organizations.

Accelrys' Modeling and Simulation software product suite is comprised of quantum mechanical simulation, molecular simulation and mesoscale simulation technologies. This product suite consists of over 100 application modules based on its own technologies that merge fundamental scientific principles with advanced computer visualization, molecular modeling and computational chemistry techniques. These products, which are principally used by specialist computational chemists and biologists, allow scientists to compute chemical, biological and materials properties, to simulate, visualize and analyze chemical and biological systems and to communicate the results to other scientists. These products have been designed within flexible software architectures that facilitate the development, integration and deployment of new products. It also offers open access to many of its core software development environments.

The Company's line of Informatics Software is comprised of bioinformatics and cheminformatics solutions. Its bioinformatics solutions include a suite of programs enabling molecular biologists to search, edit, compare, map and align sequence data. Researchers use these products to enable the analysis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and protein sequences and structure, predict ribonucleic acid (RNA) secondary structure and annotate protein sequences. The Company also provides enterprise-wide tools that assist in the management and analysis of this data. Accelrys' cheminformatics software includes data visualization and analysis software to search, retrieve and use chemical structures, biological and chemical data, experimental data and registration information. Most of these tools use industry standard software components and are compliant with commonplace applications, such as Microsoft Excel. Accelrys also uses this cheminformatics component technology and database architectures to build customized enterprise-wide systems for client companies, and also sells these implemented components to customers who want to build or customize their own systems.

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AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Benj — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:37:16 +0000

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http://www.amagpharma.com/

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contactus@amagpharma.com

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125 CambridgePark Drive 6th Floor

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02140

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(617) 498–3300

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(617) 499-3361

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Our core technology is based on the characteristic properties of extremely small, coated superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles. Our core competencies include the ability to design such nanoparticles for particular applications, to manufacture the nanoparticles in controlled sizes and to cover the nanoparticles with different coatings depending upon the application for which they will be used. Our technology and expertise enable us to synthesize, sterilize and stabilize these iron oxide nanoparticles in a manner necessary for use in pharmaceutical products such as iron replacement therapeutics and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents.

Our iron oxide nanoparticles are composed of bioavailable iron that is easily absorbed by the body and incorporated into the body's iron stores. As a result, products using our core technology are well suited for use in intravenous (IV) iron replacement therapy. Additionally, the superparamagnetic characteristic of our products results in nanoparticles that become strongly magnetic when placed in a magnetic field, but lose their magnetism once the field is removed. Therefore, use of our nanoparticles results in magnetic resonance images that increase the information available to the reviewing physicians.

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Luna Innovations

Benj — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:45:19 +0000

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http://www.lunainnovations.com/

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solutions@lunainnovations.com

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2851 Commerce St.

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24060

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1-540-552-5128

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1.540.951.0760

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Drawing upon a strong team of scientists, business professionals and engineers from diverse technical backgrounds, Luna Innovations has built a unique set of core capabilities and a diverse array of technologies. Our mission is to identify market opportunities, develop new technologies, and provide the launch pad to fully develop their commercial potential. Posting over a decade of consecutive growth, Luna actively transitions basic research and development into cost-effective products for industry, defense, communities and the environment.

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ADE Phase Shift

Benj — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:43:51 +0000

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http://www.phase-shift.com/

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3470 E. Universal Way

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85706

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(520) 573-9250

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(520) 573-9355

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ADE Phase Shift is a wholly owned subsidiary of ADE Corporation (Nasdaq: ADEX). As a company we design and build high precision systems for measuring the flatness, roughness and shape of advanced technology surfaces.

ADE Phase Shift was founded in Tucson as Phase Shift Technology, Inc. in 1987, by Chris Koliopoulos, Ph.D. and David Basila. The company soon offered a variety of interferometry-based products, including fringe analysis software, laser-based Fizeau interferometers, and microscope-based white light interferometers.
Interferometers use the natural wave properties of light, reflected from a surface to be tested, to map the tiniest surface height variations. Using interferometry, telescope mirror manufacturers gauge the quality and focus of their mirrors, and disk drive manufacturers make sure the platters used in computer disk drives are flat enough to withstand the high speeds and close quarters of the interior of a computer drive. It was Phase Shift interferometers that were used by the company that made the lenses that fixed the orbital Hubble telescope's blurred vision.

In 1998, Phase Shift Technology merged with Massachusetts-based ADE Corporation, a manufacturer of metrology equipment for the semiconductor and data storage industries. Since that time, the company has been called ADE Phase Shift.

ADE Phase Shift now makes products with applications for the measuring of the surface topology of polished silicon wafers, as well as systems for measuring critical surfaces in the hard disk industry, and many needs of optics manufacturers.

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Aviza Technology, Inc.

Benj — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:21:32 +0000

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http://www.avizatechnology.com/

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440 Kings Village Road

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95066

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+1-831-438-2100

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n order to drive and accelerate IC innovation, chipmakers are looking for advanced technology and process solutions that can meet their aggressive production schedules, on time and on budget. Aviza offers both front-end-of-line (FEOL) and back-end-of-line (BEOL) process applications including products for atomic layer deposition (ALD), diffusion and low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) furnaces, atmospheric pressure CVD (APCVD), CVD, etch and physical vapor deposition (PVD). The company’s portfolio of proven, high productivity and low cost-of-ownership systems enable chipmakers to meet today’s challenging manufacturing requirements.

Based in Scotts Valley, Calif., Aviza has approximately 700 full-time employees and contractors supporting its customers around the globe. Aviza supports a global network of approximately 3,000 installed systems. Additional sales and customer support facilities are located in Germany, France, U.K., Italy, Taiwan, Japan, China, South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia, and are available 24/7 to assist customers in achieving their manufacturing goals with world-class product support, field service and technical training.

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Synopsys, Inc.

Benj — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:26:33 +0000

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http://www.synopsys.com/

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700 East Middlefield Road

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94043

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(650) 584-5000, or (800) 541-7737

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Synopsys is the leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software and services used to design complex integrated circuits (ICs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and systems-on-chips (SoCs) for the global semiconductor and electronics industries. Synopsys solutions include pre-designed and pre-verified blocks of intellectual property (IP) that can be easily inserted into design flows, as well as technology to address yield and manufacturing issues early in the design process.

Compute power, multi-media, graphics and communications features are converging in consumer products, putting additional pressure on engineers to create designs that are especially sensitive to cost, power consumption and size. Synopsys gives its customers a competitive edge in bringing the best products to market quickly while reducing costs and schedule risk. From high-level synthesis to silicon, Synopsys provides solutions to the most difficult challenges that confront engineers who are pushing electronic design to the limit. Synopsys technology can be found in virtually every chip in the world.

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Nanometrics Inc.

Benj — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:37:42 +0000

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http://www.nanometrics.com/

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sales@nanometrics.com

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1550 Buckeye Drive

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95035

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408.435.9600

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408.232.5910

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Nanometrics, Inc. (NASDAQ: NANO) designs, manufactures and markets advanced thin film, critical dimension, overlay and defect inspection metrology systems. The company serves the global semiconductor industry as its primary market, and is a leading metrology supplier to the flat panel display (FPD) and magnetic recording head industries.

Nanometrics offers metrology systems that precisely measure a wide range of film types deposited on substrates during manufacturing in order to control manufacturing processes and increase production yields. The non-contact, non-destructive metrology systems use a broad spectrum of wavelengths, high sensitivity optics, proprietary software and patented technologies to measure the thickness, CD, optical constants and uniformity of films and structures deposited on silicon and other substrates. In addition, the company has microscope and software-based technology for measuring the relative alignment of adjacent thin film layers - a critical parameter in device production.

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Research at Intel

Benj — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:01:30 +0000

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http://www.intel.com/research/nanovision/

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2200 Mission College Blvd.

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95052

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(408) 765-8080

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Silicon manufacturing technology is now able to shrink critical dimensions of structures down to scales well below 100 nanometers (roughly the width of the influenza virus). These nanostructures are too small to see, even with the most sophisticated imaging equipment. This presents a challenge for Intel engineers who manually inspect microprocessors to identify which nanostructures are defective, so that repairs can be made.

Silicon nanostructures are difficult to see for two reasons: First, the imaging tools used to visualize the nanostructures are not able to resolve them in great detail, so the images are very low-resolution. Secondly, most tools, once they zoom in far, provide very weak signals and add a lot of "noise" to the image-electric noise from amplification, and imaging noise created by the nature of the process being used to generate the image. Viewing these images is analogous to looking through a textured bathroom window pane at a frosted-glass object; the image is blurry and obscured by reflections.

The Computational Nanovision project team, led by Horst Haussecker, is addressing these challenges associated with nano-imaging. They are using computer vision techniques based on sophisticated mathematical models to enhance image data, and to measure and reconstruct the shape of silicon nanostructures in real time.

In carrying out their research, the team is collaborating with researchers at Brown University and MIT. As the project progresses, the team will continue to share knowledge and exchange ideas through presentations, publications, and participation in key conferences.

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Albany Molecular Research, Inc.

Benj — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:48:57 +0000

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http://www.albmolecular.com/

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info@albmolecular.com

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21 Corporate Circle, PO Box 15098

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12212-5098

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518-464-0279

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518-464-0289

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Founded in 1991, Albany Molecular Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMRI) is a chemistry-based drug discovery and development company, focusing on applications for new small molecule prescription drugs. The company conducts R&D projects and collaborates with many leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and genomics companies, and is developing new chemistry technology for potential prescription drug applications.

For over a decade, Albany Molecular Research, Inc. has helped pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies accelerate the movement of products through the discovery and development pipeline. From lead discovery and optimization, through process development, and on to cGMP manufacturing -- all with a fanatical devotion to quality, speed, and customer satisfaction.

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Veeco Instruments, Inc.

Benj — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:49:03 +0000

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http://www.veeco.com/

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sales@veeco.com

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100 Sunnyside Boulevard, Suite B

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11797

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(516) 677-0200

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(516) 714-1200

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Veeco is a leading provider of Metrology and Process Equipment solutions used by manufacturers in the data storage, semiconductor and telecom/wireless industries. These industries help create a wide range of information age technology and products, such as personal computers and network servers, as well as newer technologies such as television set-top boxes, personal digital assistants and other consumer products. Our products are also critical enabling instruments used in the advancement of scientific research and nanotechnology. Veeco partners with our global customers to deliver the enabling technology, experience and support they need to succeed.

Veeco's Metrology tools are used to measure at the nanoscale and our Process Equipment tools help create nanoscale devices.

In keeping with its commitment to technological product leadership and growth in each of its product lines, Veeco continually introduces new products designed to provide long-term benefits for its customers, such as increased manufacturing yield, enhanced productivity, improved quality and reduced cost-of-ownership. We serve our customers from strategically located facilities in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Asia-Pacific.