Yudu - Nanotimes May/June 2011

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Access Array™ System to automate its sample prepa- ration for targeted resequencing. http://www.fluidigm.com

orth Dimension Displays (FDD), a leading provider of display components for fighter jet

and helicopter simulators, and subsidiary of Kopin® Corporation, will introduce Replicating Reality™. Replicating Reality is a new concept to create the ultimate experience by making the user feel fully im- mersed in a different world or hyper-reality. Initially aiming at the gaming industry, Replicating Reality will be showcased at the E3 Gaming Conference to be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center (June 7-9, Booth #2962) and at IVR Expo at the Tokyo Interna- tional Exhibition Center (June 22-24, Booth #24-39). http://www.kopin.com

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RX Polymers, Inc. (FRX) has closed on $15.7MM in a Series B equity round of financing. The funds

will be used for working capital and to partially fund FRX’s first commercial scale production facility.

FRX Polymers, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is the manufacturer and marketer of a new, environmen- tally friendly family of inherently flame retardant plastics. FRX’s products are currently being sold in consumer electronic, building and construction and transportation markets as polymeric flame retardant additives, as “stand-alone” inherently flame retardant engineering plastics and as reactive flame retardant additives for thermosetting plastics. FRX currently operates two pilot plants in Chelmsford, MA, USA,

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and a third larger polymer pilot plant in Switzerland. FRX is currently producing at capacity and will use part of the Series B investment to finance its first commercial plant.

Leading the Series B investment round is SAM Pri- vate Equity with headquarters in Zurich Switzerland. Joining SAM are the Company’s Series A co-lead investors (Israel Cleantech Ventures and Capricorn Venture Partners), a syndicate of private investors from Western Canada, North Sky Capital (Minne- apolis, MN) and FRX’s founders (including Triton Systems, Inc.) and its employees. http://www.frxpolymers.com

UJIFILM will collaborate with SEMATECH engi- neers on critical resist issues in extreme ultravio- let (EUV) lithography.

SEMATECH, a global consortium of chipmakers, has announced that FUJIFILM Electronic Materials has joined SEMATECH’s Resist Materials and Develop-