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emission spectroscopy for use in combustion research or for agricultural/food product inspection. These applications are based on detecting the moisture, lipids, proteins, or other molecular vibration absorbance bands in the 800-1700 nm range. Other applications include high speed inspection of silicon boules or wafers for photovoltaics, solar cell/panel inspection, integrated circuits, and many machine vision tasks for sorting and monitoring continuous processes.
Sensors Unlimited, Inc., part of Goodrich ISR Systems, based in Princeton, NJ, has pioneered the design and production of NIR and SWIR cameras and systems utilizing advanced Indium Gallium Arsenide (InGaAs) imaging technology for industrial, commercial, military, agricultural, and scientific markets. Most recently, Sensors Unlimited’s cameras were used on NASA’s successful LCROSS mission detecting moisture on the moon.
For additional information on InGaAs-based shortwave infrared imaging detectors, arrays, and systems, please visit
www.sensorsinc.com.
AIXTRON 4-inch Black Magic tool ordered by ETH Zurich
AIXTRON AG announced a previous order for one Black Magic CNT (carbon nanotube) deposition system from ETH Zurich, a leading Institute in Switzerland.
The system, in a 1x4 inch wafer configuration, is installed at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering.
Professor Hyung Gyu Park, Head of the Nanoscience for Energy Technology and Sustainability group comments: “Having evaluated several CNT tools, we found that the AIXTRON Black Magic system was the best overall in terms of uniformity and process control for wafer-scale growth of single wall carbon nanotubes. The system interface is user
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friendly and the reactor uses growth technology that has been proven in many labs as well as industry. We are extremely pleased with the system and it has consistently produced high quality, vertically aligned single wall carbon nanotubes which is exactly what we require. We are integrating these nanotubes into novel devices on a wafer-scale.”
Professor Park joined ETH Zurich in April, 2009, as an Assistant Professor of Energy Technology in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering and his distinguished career has included work on mass transport in carbon nanotubes. In particular, his CNT research became a cover article of the journal Science, an article that has been one of the most frequently cited chemistry articles in this journal. His research program in ETH Zurich involves fundamental nanoscience of energy technology applications using various CNT- nanofluidic platforms and other nanostructures to study basic properties of transport under extreme confinement commensurable with transporting molecules’ own sizes. Future applications cover solar energy harvesting and fuel cells as well as highly sensitive, non- destructive sensors.
Gallium Nitride non-linear model released by Nitronex and Modelithics
Nitronex and Modelithics have released the first state-of-the-art non-linear model for Nitronex’s high power gallium nitride (GaN) NPT1012 device.
The model combines heating effects, static and dynamic bias characteristics with large signal performance to deliver accuracy unlike other GaN HEMT device models. The collaborative model predicts performance of the NPT1012 in broadband application circuits specifically targeting the military communications, electronic warfare and radar markets.
Modelithics President and CEO Larry Dunleavy commented that, “We have enjoyed working
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