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The James Watt Nanofabrication Centre in Glasgow, UK, has added a PlasmaPro System100 ICP plasma etch system to its existing installed base of Oxford Instruments etch and deposition tools. The PlasmaPro System100 ICP will be used to etch compound semiconductors materials used in applications such as optoelectronics, mm-wave & terahertz, bioengineering, biotechnology, lab-on-a-chip, energy harvesting and photovoltaics.

Cambridge’s Anglia Ruskin University (www.anglia.ac.uk) has purchased a Prism Sound dScope Series III digital and analogue audio analyser to further the studies of students in its Computing and Technology department.

Aqueous Technologies Corp., announces that Aqueous University recently released two new videos. The first video, titled “Introduction to Trident,” provides a quick, five-minute look into the workings of the Trident. Aqueous Technologies’ President Michael Konrad explains the motivation behind the design of the Trident, the industry’s most popular automatic defluxing and cleanliness testing system.

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. inaugurates its 2010 series of worldwide technical conferences with CDNLive! EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) taking place in Munich, Germany, from May 4 to May 6. It is the first of six worldwide user conferences to be held this year, followed by events in Japan, China, North America, Israel, and India. CDNLive! EMEA brings together hundreds of Cadence® technology users, developers and industry experts to excha...

Cadence Design Systems announced that three additional universities will take on active roles in its academic network in Europe. The network promotes the proliferation of leading-edge technologies and methodologies at universities renowned for their engineering and design excellence. The latest additions to the Cadence Academic Network are the CETTI/TU Bucharest, which will focus on PCB design; the KTH Stockholm, which will concentrate on wireles...

One of the many varied and interesting research projects at the University of Southampton’s ORC (Optoelectronics Research Centre) involves direct UV laser writing of integrated optical circuits on specialised glass substrates and on its own patented ‘flat’ optical cable. With application potential from telecom network components through to lab-on-a-chip (LOC) biological and chemical sensors, the photonic circuits are produced wi...

Laser technology solutions specialist Altechna Co. Ltd is basing its Alt-SCA femtosecond laser micromachining system around Aerotech's ANT130 series linear motor driven nanopositioning stages in a customised 3-axis XYZ configuration that includes a granite bridge support structure and a unique pneumatically counterbalanced vertical axis. The synchronisation between the one nanometre resolution positioning system and the laser's firing pattern is ...

Accordance Systems today announced the ARAID M300 advanced RAID subsystem for 2.5” SATA hard drive protection. The ARAID M300 creates a RAID 1 disk array from a computer’s existing system drive and a blank secondary drive. System, application and user files are constantly mirrored on both drives and in the event of disk failure, the computer continues to run with no data loss. The ARAID M300 storage subsystem connects to new or legacy compute...

Royal Philips Electronics subsidiary Assembléon has started a research project to develop a new generation of sustainable pick& place solutions for the electronics assembly industry. The new generation will not only pick & place components sustainably; it will also minimize the environmental impact of the machine in its design phase. The project has been recognized by the Dutch government in the form of a substantial financial subsidy to stimula...

Assembléon announces that Tonn van de Laar has followed up Andre Papoular as CEO of Assembléon. This change of leadership follows the recent completion of the agreement between Royal Philips Electronics, founder of Assembléon, and H2 Equity Partners for the transaction of 80% of the Assembléon shares to H2. The remaining 20% will remain within Philips.