ProteanTecs, Israel, a global leader of deep data analytics for advanced electronics, and ELES, Italy, a worldwide provider of semiconductor device reliability testing solutions, announced their partnership for safety and mission-critical applications.
Camtek Ltd., Israel, together with FormFactor, Inc., Livermore, Calif., entered into an agreement for the acquisition by Camtek of FormFactor, Inc.’s FRT Metrology business for $100 million in cash, subject to customary purchase price adjustments.
Researchers at the University of Southern California have developed a bilayer coating of an insulator and graphene on top of a semiconductor that can tune the energy required to eject electrons out of the material, potentially making electrochemical devices more efficient.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Germany, resolved and analyzed the mutual repulsion between individual electrons in an electron microscope for the first time, enabling the team to develop a method that could increase the performance of established electron microscopes and open up a new interface between electron microscopy and quantum technology.
Initial studies of the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu sample collected in space and brought to Earth by NASA show evidence of high-carbon content and water, which together could indicate the building blocks of life on Earth may be found in the rock.
