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Solid State Technology

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  • Columns

    • From the editor

      • Boy, that guy sure is hairy!
        I guess it must be about 15 years ago now, when I was the editor of a military electronics publication, that I wrote an editorial opining on Japan’s highly ambitious and targeted competition with the U.S. semiconductor industry.

    • Setting the standard

      • Pairing ISO standard series with new IEST Recommended Practices
        Following the article titled “New Challenges in Contamination Control” published in the January issue of CleanRooms magazine, IEST has received positive comments and additional requests for insight into relevant ISO standards applicable to contamination control in controlled environments.

    • Your market analysis

      • Swab applications and market trends
        There are three broad categories of wiping products: woven flat wipers, non-woven flat wipers, and swabs. The main advantage of swabs is the variety of shapes and materials in which they are available.

    • Compounding corner

  • Features

    • SEMICON WEST 2007
      SEMI, the global industry association serving the semiconductor manufacturing supply chain, is hosting its 37th annual SEMICON West Conference and Exhibition from July 16-20.

    • Special report

      • Molecular contamination: The urge to purge
        A combination of minienvironments, thorough particle and chemical filtration systems, close environmental monitoring, and purging around key lithography steps can give operators control over contamination and improvements in yields.

    • Features

  • Products

    • Product spotlight

      • Cleanroom Furniture
        Comfort is important to contamination-control professionals confined to the cleanroom or lab for extended periods of time.

    • New products

      • New Products
        Each month, Cleanrooms brings you a collection of the latest product innovations in the contamination control industry.

  • News

    • Transparency is key to neighborhood acceptance of biosafety labs
      Despite the highly publicized antics, a poorly attended biolab protest may have done more to illustrate the growing acceptance of Biosafety Level 3 and 4 facilities-even in urban areas-than to rile up residents.
    • Going for the green
      Semiconductor wafer fabs tend to be one color, but now the industry wants another-green. At one of two back-to-back meetings held in mid-May in Austin, TX, members of the International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI) agreed to draft a green fab standard, one designed expressly for semiconductor manufacturing.
    • Microtest, Texcel link up for combo products
      Microtest Laboratories (Agawam, MA) and Texcel Medical (East Longmeadow, MA) recently announced their strategic alliance to provide pharmaceutical manufacturers and biotech companies with outsourcing services for developing the latest combination products-medical devices with pharmaceutical or biologics components-a growing market that is expected to reach approximately $9.5 billion in 2009.
    • Hand hygiene compliance helps hospitals reduce infections
      Taking into consideration the statistics on hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), it’s no wonder that the health care industry is looking for simple and cost-effective ways to reduce the number of these infections.
    • IBM takes chip manufacturing ‘au naturel’
      IBM recently announced the first application of a breakthrough self-assembling nanotechnology to conventional chip manufacturing, borrowing a process from nature to build the next-generation computer chips.
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