IndustryNews
Oxford Instruments Installs its 1000th X-Max Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis has completed the installation of
its 1000th X-Max. Te X-Max was only
introduced to the market a little over two years ago and remains the only detector in the world that offers an 80-mm2 sensor area. Te 1000th X-Max was installed at Atotech in Berlin, Germany, along with three other X-Max units. Oxford Instruments aims to use innovation to turn smart science into world-class products, and the X-Max is a classic example.
Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis
www.oxford-instruments.com
Agar Scientific Announces the Availability of SMART Grids from Dune Sciences Inc.
Agar Scientific announces their appointment by Dune Sciences for the supply of SMART GridsTM to simplify nano and bioanalysis sample preparation. SMART Grids set new standards for accurate, reproducible, and simple sample preparation for TEM, SEM, and AFM. Applying surface chemistry, SMART Grids characterization substrates capture both biological and nanomaterials through attraction or self-assembly, enabling unprecedented opportunities for integrative analysis and processing.
Agar Scientific
www.netdyalog.com/news/asci
National Science Center of Greece Selects Nano-research Technology from Vistec
Vistec Lithography Inc. received a major order from Greece. Te National Center for Scientific Research (NCSR Demokritos) has bought an EBPG5000plusES system for one of its associated Institutes. Installed at the Institute of Microelectronics (IMEL), the system will be the first 100 kV lithography system in Greece and will assure multidisciplinary cutting-edge nano-research. IMEL is one of Europe’s leading Research Institutes in the field of silicon technologies that performs multidisciplinary research.
Vistec Lithography Inc.
www.vistec-semi.com
FEI and CEA-Leti Enter Joint Agreement to Characterize Advanced Semiconductor Materials
FEI and CEA-Leti announced the companies have entered into
a three-year agreement to characterize advanced
semiconductor materials for the 22-nm technology node and beyond. European-based CEA-Leti, with its two partners on the NanoCharacterization Platform of MINATEC Campus, CEA-Liten and CEA-INAC, will apply their expertise in holography and nanobeam diffraction. FEI will provide advanced nanobeam diffraction technology with its TitanTM S/TEM. Te companies will measure strain changes in semiconductor structures.
FEI Company
www.fei.com,
www.leti.fr
58 Zeiss EFTEM Chosen for New Center at Salk Institute
Te Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies officially opened on February 9, 2011. Te center, specializing in biophotonics, will rival the imaging capacity of most, if not all, academic research institutions of its size in the nation. Te Libra 120 PLUS EFTEM system and the Biophotonics Core Facility will act as a test bed for future developments of correlative light and electron microscopy methods in collaboration with Carl Zeiss.
Carl Zeiss NTS
www.zeiss.com/us/nts
President Barack Obama Sees Atoms on FEI TEM
President Barack Obama finally got to see his atoms, courtesy of Intel and FEI’s Titan transmission electron microscope. Te president visited Intel Hillsboro’s Ronler Acres facility as part of a West
Coast technology tour. During his visit to the TEM lab, the president took a seat at the facility’s Titan TEM. “I’ve gotta see some atoms, excuse me,” he said while examining the images on the system’s monitors. “Don’t bump my atoms here.”
FEI Company
www.fei.com
Thin-film Vacuum Deposition Cluster Tool Delivered to Naval Research Laboratory
Kurt J. Lesker Company recently shipped a multi-technique, production-grade cluster tool to the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. Various stations of the cluster tool operate in high and ultra-high vacuum and make use of advanced physical vapor deposition (PVD) processes, including magnetron sputtering, electron beam and thermal evaporation, and ion-assisted deposition for film modification. Tere is capability to add analytical tools for in-situ thin-film analysis.
Kurt J. Lesker Company
www.lesker.com
ETH Zurich Choose Vistec EBPG5200 for New Nanotechnology Center
Vistec Lithography, Inc. announced that it received an order from the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) for one of its Vistec EBPG5200 systems. Te Vistec EBPG5200 will be installed in the new Nanotechnology Center, which is a unique, public–private partnership between IBM Research– Zurich and ETH Zurich. ETH Zurich will focus on exploratory research aiming at nanotechnology applications such as MEMS/NEMS, nanowires, Carbon-based devices, functional materials, optical interconnects, photonics, and directed self-assembly.
Vistec Lithography Inc.
www.vistec-semi.com
doi:10.1017/S1551929511000344
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