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SEMATECH Achieves Submicron 3D IC Bond Alignment Results in Integrated Bonding Tool Platform

Researchers from SEMATECH's 3D Interconnect program based at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering's (CNSE) Albany NanoTech Complex have reported advances in wafer-to-wafer bonding alignment accuracies through ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists Shed 'Light' on Semiconductor Quandry

(PhysOrg.com) -- UC San Diego scientists are using laser plasma-produced light sources to explore performance improvements of critical inspection tools for the semiconductor industry, which ultimately will ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2




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New detector design improves gamma-ray measurements

(Phys.org) -- In the pursuit of precision measurements, nothing is simple, even when the apparatus employed appears to be utterly uncomplicated. An instructive case in point is the new ionization chamber used ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

World's first 300mm-fab compatible directed self-assembly process line

At next week’s SPIE Advanced Lithography conference (San Jose, CA), imec announces the successful implementation of the world first 300mm fab-compatible Directed Self-Assembly (DSA) process line all-under-one-roof ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers create tool for 'Circuit-Aware' reliability testing

(PhysOrg.com) -- A PML research team has devised a reliability data transformation methodology that could ease one of the semiconductor industry’s most vexing problems: reliability qualification.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Bright future for gaN nanowires

The gallium nitride nanowires grown by PML scientists may only be a few tenths of a micrometer in diameter, but they promise a very wide range of applications, from new light-emitting diodes and diode lasers ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Adding up photons with a transition edge sensor

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have demonstrated that a superconducting detector called a transition edge sensor (TES) is capable of counting the number of as many as 1,000 photons in a single pulse of light ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

In Brief: Development of a new chip for characterizing ultrafast optical pulses

Boosting up microprocessors -the heart of modern computers- at the speed of light, reducing consumptions and costs, may now be a reality thanks to the development of a new high-performance chip, the results of which have ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An octave spanning chip-based optical ruler

More than a decade ago, the frequency comb technique was developed at the Max Planck In-stitute of Quantum Optics by Professor Theodor W. Hänsch. The new tool has stimulated fun-damental research as well ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Novel software raises standards of aero engine maintenance

In collaboration with Hong Kong Aero Engine Services Ltd (HAESL), engineers from PolyU’s Industrial Centre (IC) have achieved a breakthrough in aero engine maintenance. By applying mathematics-based software ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A nanotech solution controlling the path of light can brighten up our lives

We want our electrical devices to have bright screens with low energy needs, so they can be used for a long time before recharge is required. Scientists are increasing the intensity of light by making nanometer ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers develop integrated nanomechanical sensor for atomic force microscopy

(PhysOrg.com) -- The atomic force microscope (AFM) is an important tool for nanoscale surface metrology. Typical AFMs map local tip-surface interactions by scanning a flexible cantilever probe over a surface. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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