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At April 2, 2011, Nanometrics had $80.2 million in cash and cash equivalents and $153.8 million in wor- king capital. Stockholders’ equity, excluding intangi- ble assets, was $7.97 per share based on 22.7 million shares outstanding at quarter end.

Furthermore, Nanometrics announced that a major Korean memory manufacturer has accepted its UniFire™ 7900 metrology system for process control of advanced packaging of DRAM devices. The me- trology tool will be used in development of through- silicon via (TSV) technology, projected to be a key enabling feature of next generation DRAM designs. With this placement, the UniFire system has now been adopted by four of the top seven semiconduc- tor manufacturers worldwide. http://www.nanometrics.com

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anonics Imaging, Ltd. is pleased to welcome NANOSENSORS™ Akiyama-Probe (A-Probe)

to its family of tuning-fork based probes. Akiyama- Probe is based on a quartz tuning fork combined with a micromachined cantilever. The great advan- tage of this novel probe is that one can benefit from both the tuning fork’s extremely stable oscillation and the silicon cantilever’s reasonable spring con- stant with one probe.

Akiyama-Probe is equipped with a special version of the NANOSENSORS™ AdvancedTEC, a high-end sharp silicon tip and has an excellent imaging capa- bility on various samples with different properties, which is as high as that of a conventional optical lever system.

The Akiyama-Probe incorporates all of the advan- tages that tuning-fork based feedback probes have

and as such fits beautifully in the Nanonics tuning- fork based probe NanoTool Kit. http://www.nanonics.co.il

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eoPhotonics Corporation (NYSE: NPTN), a leading designer and manufacturer of photonic

integrated circuit, or PIC, based modules and subsy- stems for bandwidth-intensive, high speed commu- nications networks, announced here at OFC/NFOEC, a new PIC-based Integrated Coherent Receiver (ICR) for 40 and 100 Gbps DWDM transmission systems that incorporates an integrated polarizing beam split- ter (PBS). http://www.neophotonics.com

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hin film solar innovation leader Nanosolar, Inc. has signed long-term supply agreements for up

to one gigawatt of Nanosolar Utility Panel supply with Belectric of Kolitzheim, Germany; EDF Ener- gies Nouvelles of Paris, France; and Plain Energy of Munich, Germany.

As several of the largest and most experienced installers of thin film panels in Europe, these long- term strategic Nanosolar partners will utilize the cost-efficient Nanosolar Utility Panel to expand their solar power plant developments. Each of the supp- ly agreements ranges from a three to six year term, and in total may account for up to one gigawatt of committed module deliveries as Nanosolar achieves its volume and cost targets. Each of the three compa- nies has worked closely with Nanosolar as a strategic partner since 2008.

Furthermore, the Company announced new effici- ency benchmarks of 11.6% for the Nanosolar Utility Panel and 13.9% for its printed CIGS (Copper, Indi-

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