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Dow Electronic Materials Announces Two New VISIONPAD(TM) Polishing Pads for Advanced IC

VISIONPAD(TM) 6000 and VISIONPAD(TM) 5200 Polishing Pads Offer Improved Overall Process Performance and Reduced Cost of Consumables Dow Electronic Materials /quotes/comstock/13*!dow/quotes/nls/dow (DOW 25.57, -0.12, -0.47%) , a leader and innovator in chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) technology for the global semiconductor industry, today introduced its latest VISIONPAD(TM) polishing pads VISIONPAD(TM) 6000 and VISIONPAD(TM) 5200. These...read more »

Researchers break new ground in nanotechnology

CSIRO in Australia, Palo Alto Research Center in the USA, Sunchon National University in South Korea and Toppan Forms in Japan are among those developing printed organic transistors and photovoltaics. A pioneering study by researchers of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has shown that sandwiching a simple layer of silver nanoparticles can significantly...read more »

Printed cholesterol sensor

A European collaboration which is being led by a researcher at DCU will revolutionize the way blood tests, such as cholesterol, are performed. Dr. Tony Killard at the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute is developing a cholesterol test using the emerging technology of printed electronics. The BDI is funded by Science Foundation Ireland through their CSET...read more »

UK’s first printed lighting panel to start in November 2010

An initiative to develop the UK’s first printed lighting panel has received government funding and will officially start in November this year. The manufacturing process to make a polymer light-emitting diode (PLED) luminaire will be proved and tested at the Printable Electronics Technology Centre (PETEC) – the UK’s national design, development and prototyping facility...read more »

Ultraviolet curing for printed electronics

E2M Technology’s ultraviolet curing device represents the very latest in high-tech ultraviolet curing for the electronics industry. Ultraviolet curing is the process by which ultraviolet (UV) light is used to change the physical state of a (UV-curable fluid) liquid to a solid. The complete process takes less than four seconds. This is an ‘out...read more »

Woven electronics

Electrical engineers from ETH Zurich have devised intelligent textiles that already have electronic components such as sensors and conductive filaments woven into them. The advantage: the fabric can be mass-produced on conventional ribbon looms – and washed! Researchers have been experimenting with “intelligent” textiles for quite some time by integrating standard electronic components. However,...read more »

E Ink – next generation display

E Ink Corporation, recently announced the Q2 release of its next generation display technology, Pearl. With Pearl, E Ink expands the capabilities of reflective displays, bringing electronic paper performance to the next level. With the whitest reflective displays in the industry, and a contrast ratio now approximately 50 percent greater than today’s products, text...read more »

NREL and Solarmer Energy to extend lifetime of plastic solar cells

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Solarmer Energy, Inc., recently signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to collaborate on improving the lifetime of plastic solar cells, a promising new solar conversion technology. The joint research covered by the CRADA will explore the lifetime and stability of...read more »

Nanotech speakers hold promise for sonar uses

UT Dallas researchers have found that carbon nanotube sheets excel as underwater sound generators and noise-canceling speakers, two highly desirable traits for submarine sonar and stealth capabilities. Researchers had previously shown that sheets of carbon nanotubes can produce a wall of sound in air, without moving back and forth like traditional speakers. The latest...read more »

‘Quantum Computers’ a Stage Closer With Silicon Breakthrough

The remarkable ability of an electron to exist in two places at once has been controlled in the most common electronic material — silicon — for the first time. The research findings — published in Nature by a UK-Dutch team from the University of Surrey, UCL (University College) London, Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, and...read more »

Plextronics provide critical developments for the organic solar market

An organic solar ink developed by Plextronics can be used for energy harvesting applications such as animated point-of-purchase displays that are self-powered by organic photovoltaics (OPV). The solar ink can be used to deliver higher performance in fluorescent lighting conditions in comparison to amorphous silicon solar cells. it shows a 30 to 40 percent...read more »

Liquavista launches ground-breaking transflective product platform

Liquavista BV, has announced the launch of its next product platform LiquavistaVivid. Bringing a level of performance unparalleled by other transflective displays, LiquavistaVivid is the ultimate, highly versatile, intelligent adaptive display; specifically developed to support a broad range of feature rich, multi-functional consumer electronic devices. “With LiquavistaVivid consumers can now experience an intelligent, adaptive...read more »