Lenix a Korean materials and equipment supplier to Samsung, Hynix and LG announced their line of fully automated modular process equipment for running the Alchimer via fill process. The system was exclusively designed for the electro- grafting and chemical-grafting processes used by Alchimer. Process modules include: isolation, barrier, Cu seed, via filling ( capable to […]
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NREL Scholarship Gives Columbine Grads a Boost
Enlarge image Columbine Spirit Scholarship alum Meghan McKee is currently a facility engineer for El Paso Exploration & Production. She splits her time between the company’s Denver office and solving problems for the company’s natural gas field in Raton, NM. Credit: Dennis Schroeder Columbine. It’s not often a single word can evoke an enormous spectrum […]
BLDC Motor Has Standard High Torque Density Design
BEI Kimco Magnetics, a company of Custom Sensors & Technologies (CST), Inc., met the challenging motor requirements for a revolutionary new cast removal system for a leading medical device manufacturer. The cast cutting system was part of the manufacturer’s continuing goal to develop products that reduce trauma for pediatric patients. In this instance, the product […]
Linear Actuators Provides Exceptionally High Force-to-Size Ratios
Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions Inc, a leading manufacturer of precision linear motion products, offers an entire line of high output can stack linear actuators. The Haydon line of high output can stack actuators include the 20, 25, and 35-mm frame sizes. Compact, robust, and powerful, these linear actuators outperform other offerings of similar size. The […]
COTS Backplane Offers Impressive Bandwidth and Configuration Flexibility
The Kontron 4U Backplane xPB-13E9P3 for PICMG 1.3-based system designs boasts comprehensive PCI and PCI Express Gen 2 support for full-height 4U systems. With double the PCIe lanes of any previous solution, 32 in total, the PICMG® 1.3-compliant backplane tackles bandwidth-intensive applications with its cost-effective and densely-packed design for use with standard PCIe and PCI […]
Microcontrollers Integrate USB and Large RAM
Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, analog, and Flash-IP solutions, offers the four-member PIC24FJ256GB210 microcontroller family, which integrates USB for Embedded Host/Peripheral/On-the-Go and 96 Kbytes of RAM. This large RAM enables the buffering of sizeable amounts of data and better overall throughput, for applications such as Ethernet connectivity, remote sensing, data logging, and […]
LabSmith, Inc, Harvard Apparatus partner for Worldwide distribution of CapTite? microfluidics products
LabSmith, Inc, developer of tools for science, including equipment for micro/nano-fluidics and other laboratory research, has partnered with Harvard Apparatus, a Harvard Bioscience company, to distribute its CapTite™ microfluidic components through the new Harvard Apparatus 2010 Physiology Catalog. “A distribution partnership between Harvard Apparatus and LabSmith […]
Fluxion Biosciences wins R & D 100 award for the IonFlux HT System
The R&D 100 Award places the state-of-the-art IonFlux System in the prestigious company of previous winners such as liquid crystal displays and the anticancer drug Taxol. “We are honored to be recognized by R&D Magazine for our new microfluidic technology and to be ranked among the world’s top technology innovators” Known as “the Oscars of […]
Washable, Wireless Mouse Prevents Cross-Contamination
Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) cost U.S. hospitals $8.1 billion in 2006, according to a recently released study by the Centers for Disease Control. Even more alarmingly, the CDC reports 48,000 deaths in the same year can be attributed to illnesses caught during hospital stays. Studies show that commonly shared hospital keyboards and mice in particular are […]
Digital CCD Camera Offers Two Scan Speeds
Hamamatsu Photonics has launched the new ORCA-R2 “Rapid Readout” digital CCD camera. Building on the success of the established, market-leading ORCA AG and based on the same exclusive ER-150 progressive scan interline 1344 x 1024 pixel CCD, the new ORCA-R2 is designed to maintain Hamamatsu’s competitive edge for demanding, non-EM CCD applications in the visible […]