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Light Source Support Offers Lower Cost of Operation and Increases Productivity

Cymer, Inc., the world's leading supplier of light sources used by chipmakers to create advanced semiconductor chips, today announced that chipmaker customers around the world have added its OnPulse(TM) LaserLife Program to more than 900 of Cymer's 3,300 installed light sources.

21 Jul 2008

Shedding Light on the Secrets of Semiconductor Devices and Cellular Structures

A novel super-resolution X-ray microscope developed by a team of researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) and EPFL in Switzerland combines the high penetration power of x-rays with high spatial resolution, making it possible for the first time to shed light on the detailed interior composition of semiconductor devices and cellular structures.

17 Jul 2008

Researchers Overcome Major Obstacle in Reducing Cost of Solid State Lighting

Researchers at Purdue University have overcome a major obstacle in reducing the cost of "solid state lighting," a technology that could cut electricity consumption by 10 percent if widely adopted.

17 Jul 2008

Goodfellow Offers an Extensive Range of Optical Components

The Technical Glass Company, part of the Goodfellow group of companies, offers a wide variety of optical components ranging from plain toughened float glass windows to sophisticated aspheric lenses made by vacuum molding hot glass in ultra-accurate molds. The company also specializes in micro-optics, with components in the millimeter or even sub-millimeter size range.

16 Jul 2008

IPG’s YLR-Series of High Power Lasers to be Used in Door Welding Applications

IPG Photonics Corporation, the world leader in high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers, today announced that its German subsidiary, IPG Laser GmbH, has received a major order for multi-kilowatt, continuous wave Ytterbium fiber laser systems totaling 63kW in power from the BMW Group in Munich, Germany.

15 Jul 2008

Performance and Benefits of QPC’s Patented Chip-Based Laser Technology

QPC Lasers, Inc., a world leader in the design and manufacture of high-brightness, high-power semiconductor chip-based lasers for the consumer electronics, industrial, defense, and medical markets, today announced the company's technical marketing team recently published a technical paper in the prestigious laser industry trade magazine Laser+Photonics.

15 Jul 2008

TWINSCAN XT:1950i Enables World-Leading Sub 40 nm Volume Chip Imaging

ASML Holding NV (ASML) announces today its newest TWINSCANTM XT:1950i lithography system using a 1.35 NA lens – increasing the performance of its immersion lithography systems by 25%. The system offers improved overlay, resolution and throughput, to enable high-volume manufacturing of more powerful 38 nanometer (nm) memory and '32' nm logic semiconductors.

15 Jul 2008

Cost Effective Solar Devices Expected on Market Soon

Imagine windows that not only provide a clear view and illuminate rooms, but also use sunlight to efficiently help power the building they are part of. MIT engineers report a new approach to harnessing the sun's energy that could allow just that.

10 Jul 2008

Sewing DNA Thread with Lasers, Hooks and Microbobbins

Japanese scientists have made a micro-sized sewing machine to sew long threads of DNA into shape. The work published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Lab on a Chip demonstrates a unique way to manipulate delicate DNA chains without breaking them.

10 Jul 2008

New Laser Platform Designed Specifically for Photovoltaic Applications

Deep Photonics Corp., an innovative technology company manufacturing deep ultraviolet fiber laser solutions for the semiconductor, electronics and photovoltaic marketplace, today announced the introduction of the FLP-266-PPP, a 2 watt Picosecond 266 nm fiber laser featuring adjustable pulse width, pulse burst packets, and variable pulse packet frequency.

10 Jul 2008