SEMI forecasts equipment sales will rebound in 2020, reach record high in 2021

Published: December 16, 2019

SEMI, Milpitas, Calif., in its Year-End Total Equipment Forecast, predicts that global semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales will drop by 10.5 percent to $57.6 billion in 2019 from 2018, but will recover in 2020 and set a new high in 2021.

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Rigaku installs two x-ray dispersive instruments at Covalent Metrology lab

Published: December 16, 2019

Rigaku Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif., announces the installation, in the recently-expanded Covalent Metrology Sunnyvale service lab, of two of its newest analytical instruments: the Rigaku AZX400 sequential wavelength dispersive x-ray fluorescence (WDXRF) spectrometer, and the CT Lab HX system.

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Applied Materials opens Materials Engineering Technology Accelerator

Published: December 16, 2019

Applied Materials Inc., Santa Clara, Calif., announces the opening of the Materials Engineering Technology Accelerator (META Center), a first-of-its-kind facility aimed at speeding customer prototyping of new materials, process technologies, and devices.

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Solar designs furnace to process magnetic shielding materials for electronic devices

Published: December 10, 2019

Solar Manufacturing Inc., Sellersville, Pa., announces that the MuShield Co. of Londonderry, New Hampshire, has commissioned Solar Manufacturing to design its first-ever vacuum furnace.

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Materion provides AlBeMet and SupremEX composites for EU Copernicus satellites

Published: December 05, 2019

Materion Corp., Mayfield Heights, Ohio, and Synopta GmbH, Switzerland, announce the successful completion of the latest satellite as part of the Copernicus Earth observation project—a European initiative that monitors the changing conditions and general heath of the planet.

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Zeiss innovations improve accuracy of 3D tomography, speed FIB-SEM sample preparation

Published: December 05, 2019

Zeiss Microcopy, Germany, announces new extensions on Zeiss Crossbeam 350/550 and Zeiss Atlas 5 that enable faster accessibility to deeper regions of interest when investigating material samples in three dimensions.

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Siemens digital enterprise software to accelerate Oerlikon AM additive manufacturing

Published: November 21, 2019

Oerlikon AM, Charlotte, N.C., and Siemens AG, Germany, announce a strategic agreement in which Siemens will provide Oerlikon AM with digital enterprise solutions that will help Oerlikon accelerate the industrialization of additive manufacturing.

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GE Additive Arcam EBM launches D-material support for copper and tool steel powders

Published: November 21, 2019

GE Additive Arcam, Frankfurt, Germany, announces that development material (D-material) support for pure copper and highly alloyed tool steel powders will be available beginning in 2020.

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Exponent shows stainless steel resists general corrosion, but is susceptible to other types

Published: November 15, 2019

Engineers from Exponent, Menlo Park, Calif., explained in a presentation at MS&T 2019 that although stainless steel is resistant to general corrosion, the failure analysis of a stainless steel hot water heater shows that it is susceptible to other modes of corrosion.

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Rapid analyses of cracks via EBSD and EDS aid understanding of crack formation

Published: November 15, 2019

Researchers from Oxford Instruments and Manchester University reported at MS&T 2019 in Portland that rapid analyses of cracks via EBSD and EDS enable a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of crack formation and subsequent propagation.

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