OTHER ELECTRONICS
AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
UPDATE
January 2008
McIlvaine Company
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Samsung Invests in Israeli Company
Million Dollar Gift Will Help Construct New UB Engineering Building
Boston College Integrates Nanofabrication with New JEOL Instruments
StarVision Technologies Closes $750,000 Funding From Texas Emerging Technology Fund
Bosch Packaging Technology Opens New Manufacturing Facility in Goa
Modern Laboratory Equipment Has Been Purchased on the Grants
Samsung Invests in Israeli Company
Samsung Ventures Investment Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) has made a multi-million dollar investment in Micro Components Ltd. (Migdal Hemek, Israel). This is the first investment that Samsung Ventures has made in an Israeli technology company. Startup MCL designs, manufactures, and markets packaging for high power microelectronic components. Designed initially for the needs of the LED and backlight market, MCL's ALOX technology is claimed to offer heat dissipation to allow miniaturization. ALOX can also be used to package RF systems, SiPs, 3D memory stacks, MEMS and high power modules and components.
MCL owns an 800 square meters (8,608 sq. ft.)facility, including 370 square meters (3,981 sq. ft.) of cleanroom environment (Class 1,000 and 10,000 ISO Class 6 and 7), and production equipment for 6 inch substrate sizes. It also has a sales office in Phoenix, Arizona. Samsung Electro Mechanics Co. Ltd. is MCL's primary customer of LED packaging.
Million Dollar Gift Will Help Construct New UB Engineering Building
A $1 million gift to the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences from a global industry leader with a strong interest in Western New York will be used for costs associated with the construction of a new, high-tech engineering building on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.
The corporation, a generous and longstanding partner of UB, chooses to be anonymous, but stated that it felt obligated to support the school and its mission for growth because of the impact the school has had on it by continuously supplying a competent and ambitious technical workforce that has greatly aided in its growth.
New York State has embraced the engineering school's vision as well by providing $49.6 million toward the $73 million needed to build the structure. UB Engineering is engaged in a fundraising effort to generate the remaining $23 million in private funds.
The new building will modernize programs and facilities for the departments of computer science and engineering and electrical engineering. The planned 130,000-square-foot structure will boast a "cleanroom" for intricate work with nanodevices; a "cybortorium" with sophisticated communications devices and smart technology; and flexible research labs, classrooms and meeting areas for interdisciplinary work.
The facility will allow UB Engineering to use its current buildings to expand existing programs, and grow into new high-demand fields like biomedical engineering. UB Engineering plans a 30 percent growth in both enrollment and faculty over the next 10 years and is in critical need of additional research and teaching space. These goals are aligned with the UB 2020 strategic plan, which aims to grow UB by 40 percent between now and the year 2020 and to invest in areas of strategic strengths such as information and computing technology and integrated nanostructured systems in which UB Engineering will play a lead role.
The University at Buffalo is a premier research-intensive public university, the largest and most comprehensive campus in the State University of New York. UB's more than 28,000 students pursue their academic interests through more than 300 undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs. Founded in 1846, the University at Buffalo is a member of the Association of American Universities.
Boston College Integrates Nanofabrication with New JEOL Instruments
JEOL USA announced that Boston College has selected the new JEOL MultiBeam Focused Ion Beam system and a Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope for its nanofabrication cleanroom facility in Newton, Massachusetts.
As a result of Boston College’s continued investment in the sciences, the university opened its first cleanroom (Class 1,000/10,000 ISO Class 6 and 7), which will be equipped with the JEOL models JIB-4500 MultiBeam and JSM-7001F Scanning Electron Microscope with lithography capabilities.
The 4,000-square-foot lab is poised to elevate Boston College to a leadership position in this cutting-edge research into materials, energy and technology that are making an impact on fields as diverse as chemistry, physics, computing, medicine, and energy conservation.
The new BC nanofabrication lab, supervised by Stephen Shepard, will integrate the new MultiBeam nanofabrication tool with a field emission scanning electron microscope/electron beam lithography tool to conduct both fabrication and imaging.
The field emission SEM, a model JSM-7001F, has both the capability of ultrahigh resolution imaging and nanoscale lithography. With these two instruments, the new research facility will be able to fabricate, manipulate and directly measure properties of nanoscale devices visible only at high magnifications.
StarVision Technologies Closes $750,000 Funding From Texas Emerging Technology Fund
StarVision Technologies, Inc., a provider of optical-based navigation and surveillance systems said it secured an investment of $750,000 from Texas Emerging Technology Fund. The investment is expected to give StarVision the opportunity to expand its current product offerings for government and commercial markets.
StarVision said the proceeds will be used to build a cleanroom to manufacture satellite systems and other products for the aerospace industry. The state-of-the-art cleanroom is expected to give the company a competitive edge and the ability to leverage its manufacturing expertise. Construction of the facility is expected to begin immediately and is scheduled for completion in late February.
Bosch Packaging Technology Opens New Manufacturing Facility in Goa
Bosch Packaging Technology, the packaging machinery division of the leading global supplier of technology and services Bosch, inaugurated its new state of the art manufacturing facility in Verna Industrial Estate (Goa/India) early in December. The new facility with 2600 square meters (28,000 sq. ft.) produces and assembles packaging technology equipment for requirements such as candy wrapping, solid food and biscuit packaging as well as packing vials, ampoules and syringes.
Bosch Packaging Technology has already sold over 400 packaging machines and process equipment in India to leading names in the pharmaceutical, confectionery and food processing industries and exported an additional 75 machines mainly to the food industry. The Goa facility employs 80 associates and has an initial installed capacity of 120 machines a year with plans to increase this to 240 machines in three years.
Modern Laboratory Equipment Has Been Purchased on the Grants
Two new scientific-educational centers were opened in the Institute of physics and informational technologies of FENU. Memorial plates were set up in honor of famous Far Eastern scientists that contributed a lot to development of science. "The Center of nanophysics and nanotechnology" and optoelectronics and informational technology laboratory is opened on the grants, that institute won in contests. Together with FENU funds, grants made up one billion Rubles. This money was spent on modern laboratory equipment and devices, repairing and preparation of laboratory rooms for functioning in new conditions.
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