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NanoKTN and JEMI UK
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announce strategic link
for high-tech,
high-quality
The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer to communicate with a wider base of
Network (NanoKTN), the UK’s primary contacts and help to develop and promote
components,
knowledge based network for Micro and initiatives in this area.”
Nanotechnologies, has announced a
assemblies and
strategic partnership with the Joint JEMI UK will deliver three focus group
tailor-made systems
Equipment and Materials Initiative meetings over an eighteen month period
(JEMI UK). The NanoKTN and JEMI UK looking at the issues of the supply chain
will work together to promote the for nano industries, MNT, MEMS and for
commercial benefits of establishing an other emerging high tech sectors in
end to end supply chain, to enable UK micro/nanotechnology. These meeting will
technology innovators to get products to be open to all NanoKTN and JEMI UK
market faster. members, as well as other interested
parties in the industry.
A major objective of the NanoKTN is to
evaluate, assess and improve the entire “The emergence of the NanoKTN creates
supply chain, in order to develop the a fantastic opportunity for us to work
commercialisation of UK nanotechnology together and enhance the quality and
applications. JEMI UK promote the scope of messages we deliver to both our
development of a strong UK membership bases,” says Director of
infrastructure to support the growth of JEMI UK, William Revolta.
companies designing, developing and
manufacturing semiconductor devices Established by the Technology Strategy
within the UK. They will work together to Board, the NanoKTN is managed by
promote nanotechnology and nano Centre for Process Innovation Ltd, a
electronics innovation. leading technology development and
consulting company.
“The nanotechnology industry is relatively
new and there are a number of gaps in
the supply chain that prohibit products
getting to market. One of the NanoKTN’s
Windfall from Intel
main remits is to analyse this supply
chain, determine where these gaps are Intel Corporation’s board of directors has
and encourage companies to recognise the declared a 14 cents per share quarterly
commercial gains to be reaped in bridging dividend on the company’s common stock.
them,” explains Director of the The dividend will be payable on Dec. 1,
NanoKTN, Alec Reader. “The NanoKTN’s 2008 to stockholders of record on Nov. 7,
partnership with JEMI UK will enable us 2008.
From planning
Groovy CMP pads
to production
Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials, company’s slurry reduction groove design
CMP Technologies announced that its has several customers testing.
novel defect reduction and slurry
reduction groove designs for CMP pads The defect reduction groove design
Oerlikon Mechatronics AG
are gaining market acceptance. The new features an innovative constant area
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groove designs offer improvements in spiral pattern that is optimised for both
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process performance, to help meet defect wafer scale and groove scale mechanics.
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requirements, extend pad lifetimes and The design effectively removes localised
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reduce the overall cost of consumables. pressure on the wafer, minimising
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scratches and defects, and has
Rohm and Haas’s defect reduction groove demonstrated up to a 50 percent
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has been adopted by customers in Europe, improvement in defectiveness rates. The
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Korea, North America and Taiwan. While slurry reduction groove design, based on
currently being used for the 90 nm specialised flow experiments and
process node and below, multiple computational fluid modelling, has
customers are now also testing the defect achieved a greater than 30 percent
reduction groove on the VisionPad line of reduction in the cost of consumables in
CMP pads. At the same time, the metals processes.
October 2008 www.euroasiasemiconductor.com
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