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problems early, before the damage is substantive and there is major productivity loss.


Labcare Scientific Group is Mainland China’s distribution leader in mass spectrometry related equipment and solution for laboratory gas and industrial gas applications.


AccuDEVICE Co., Limited is Taiwan’s leading provider of ultra-high-purity gas purification equipment, gas analysis equipment, detectors and specialty gas supply systems.


According to David Kepniss, Director of Sales and Marketing for Power + Energy, “Both Labcare Scientific Group and AccuDEVICE are strategic additions to P+E’s global network of sales and service providers for our analyzer instruments. These companies are regarded as product and market experts in their respective geographies. Contact them if you want to have an opportunity to test and evaluate HEMS for your use.”


Nanotronics Imaging secures $7 million in funding


The developer of optical inspection tools for the semiconductor industry is being backed by Founders Fund and taken on Peter Thiel in its Board of Directors


“Our company’s customer base is rapidly growing, and this investment will ensure that we will be able to continue to provide and scale best-in-class products and services to the semiconductor industry, as well as to expand our offerings into new domains such as biomedical diagnostics.”


Nanotronics Imaging combines optical microscopy with patented image processing and machine intelligence algorithms to produce inspection tools used in a wide variety of manufacturing environments.


The firm’s technology allows for the imaging of a very large area of a specimen with nanoscale resolution.


Nanotronics Imaging’s nSpec tool couples a computer- controlled microscope and stage with fast image processing techniques to enable high-throughput defect classification and localisation for semiconductor substrate and IC chip fabricators.


Founders Fund Partner Peter Thiel, who will be joining the Nanotronics Board of Directors, says “Four centuries ago, Galileo’s mastery of optics revolutionised our understanding of the universe. Today, Nanotronics has brought us to the cusp of a new revolution on the other end of the scale, as more industrial processes take advantage of nanoscale structures. Nanotronics’ fundamental advances in optics will dramatically enhance the production lines of many of the most critical industries of the future.”


Laytec provides precise heating zone calibration


With EpiTriple TT and AbsoluT, temperature calibration of all three heating zones of an MOCVD showerhead reactor can be achieved


The precision of temperature measurements is crucial for a proper in-situ monitoring of epitaxial growth.


Nanotronics Imaging has completed a $7 million Series B financing round from Founders Fund.


Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based technology investment firm that has backed companies including Palantir, SpaceX, Facebook, ZocDoc and The Climate Corporation.


“We at Nanotronics are thrilled to be partnering with this highly regarded and successful venture firm that shares our vision for transformative technology,” says Nanotronics Imaging Founder and CEO Matthew Putman.


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It is even more important if you measure temperature at different points on the same wafer, on different wafers or in different reactors simultaneously or if you compare the temperature of different runs.


Tony SpringThorpe of the National Research Council of Canada reported recently about fast and easy temperature calibration of all three heating zones of his showerhead reactor.


SpringThorpe uses LayTec’s AbsoluT for calibration of EpiTriple TT that monitors the growth of arsenide and phosphide based devices by three measurement heads


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