Tune in to the Solid State Watch; Rebirth of mask process correction for better wafer lithography; EU FP7 continues to support Europractice IC services; Week's most popular articles

Solid State Technology Pulse |View online|Send this message to a friend

July 26, 2013

“Today’s Critical Electronics Manufacturing News.” In this issue: • Tune in to the Solid State Watch • Foreign IC companies to represent 70% of China’s IC production in 2017 • Compound Photonics acquires Europe’s largest gallium arsenide semiconductor manufacturing facility • An interview with Schubert Chu of Applied Materials • Rebirth of mask process correction for better wafer lithography • New NIST nanoscale indenter takes novel approach to measuring surface properties • Two in one solution nanoparticle for low cost polymer LEDs and solar cells • Rudolph announces new metrology suite for advanced packaging • EU FP7 continues to support Europractice IC services • Dialog Semiconductor announces Richard Beyer as new chairman of the board • Micralyne and Adament to develop MEMS-based fiber-optic subsystems • Samsung exec speaks on future innovations • Brewer Science: Simpler bonding/debonding process needed • ASML at Semicon West 2013: SRAM scaling has stopped! • MEMS needs comprehensive, market-ready solutions From our Sponsor Solid State Technology iPhone app is available! • Read the latest news stories • Save articles for future reference • Watch videos • Share Solid State Technology with colleagues on FB, Twitter, email CLICK HERE to download Top stories Tune in to the Solid State Watch Watch this week’s newscast for updates on the Hybrid Memory Cube, LED epi-wafer market growth, SEMI’s book-to-bill ratio report and the ClouT project. More>> Share: Foreign IC companies to represent 70% of China’s IC production in 2017 IC Insights’ new 250-page Mid-Year Update to the 2013 McClean Report, which is slated to be released by the end of July, describes why a very clear distinction should be made between the IC market in China and IC production within China. More>> Share: Compound Photonics acquires Europe’s largest gallium arsenide semiconductor manufacturing facility Compound Photonics announced an agreement with RFMD whereby Compound Photonics will purchase Europe's largest gallium arsenide (GaAs) manufacturing facility in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, England. More>> Share: An interview with Schubert Chu of Applied Materials Pete Singer sat down with Schubert Chu to learn more Applied Material’s recently introduced epitaxial product for NMOS. Watch the interview here. More>> Share: Tech news Rebirth of mask process correction for better wafer lithography Who knew that mask process correction (MPC) would again become necessary for the manufacturing of deep ultraviolet (DUV) photomasks? More>> Share: New NIST nanoscale indenter takes novel approach to measuring surface properties Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of North Carolina have demonstrated a new design for an instrument, a "instrumented nanoscale indenter," that makes sensitive measurements of the mechanical properties of thin films. More>> Share: Two in one solution nanoparticle for low cost polymer LEDs and solar cells Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) researchers report considerable improvement in device performance of polymer-based optoelectronic devices. More>> Share: Rudolph announces new metrology suite for advanced packaging Rudolph Technologies, Inc. released three new application-specific configurations of its industry-leading NSX 320 Automated Macro Defect Inspection System. More>> Share: From our Sponsor Business news EU FP7 continues to support Europractice IC services Together with its partners STFC and Fraunhofer IIS, imec announced today that the European Commission has pledged to continue funding the Europractice IC services for another three years under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). More>> Share: Dialog Semiconductor announces Richard Beyer as new chairman of the board Dialog Semiconductor plc announced that Richard Beyer will succeed Gregorio Reyes as chairman of the board. More>> Share: Micralyne and Adament to develop MEMS-based fiber-optic subsystems Micralyne, Inc. announced a collaboration with Adamant-Kogyo Co., Ltd for the development and manufacture of MEMS-based fiber-optic subsystems. More>> Share: Week's most popular articles Samsung exec speaks on future innovations The future is bright for the future semiconductor and IT industry, according to Samsung exec Yoon Woo (Y.W.) Lee. More>> Share: Brewer Science: Simpler bonding/debonding process needed A variety of techniques and materials have been developed to successfully achieve bonding/debonding, but Tony Flaim, chief technology officer of Brewer Science (Rolla, MO) says they are still too complicated. More>> Share: ASML at Semicon West 2013: SRAM scaling has stopped! Zvi Or-Bach, President & CEO of MonolithIC 3D Inc. blogs about an ASML presentation from Semicon West. This is a follow up to a previous post: "Dimensional Scaling and the SRAM Bit-Cell." More>> Share: MEMS needs comprehensive, market-ready solutions Microelectromechanical systems -- commonly known as MEMS -- applications are on the rise. In fact, the MEMS market is currently outpacing overall IC market growth at a rate that is twice as fast and is expected to be a $20B US market as early as 2017. Why the uptick in MEMS use? More>> Share:

News Editor Shannon Davis (603) 891-9145 shannond@pennwell.com

If you are a current subscriber, you can unsubscribe from this newsletter by clicking this link: here You may also contact us to by clicking here or you can write to us at: PennWell Corporation c/o E-mail Unsubscribe 1421 South Sheridan Road Tulsa, OK 74112 USA If you do not subscribe to this newsletter and would like to receive it, please visit: http://www.electroiq.com/index/subscribe/newsletters.html