This video from Old Pueblo Forge shows how Japanese swords are forged by hand and heat treated.
Imec first to demonstrate conductor films on 300 mm wafers with lower resistivity than Cu and Ru
Imec, Belgium, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, provided the first experimental evidence that the resistivity of a thin conductor film on a 300mm Si wafer can be lower than that of Cu and Ru, which are currently used in interconnect metallization schemes, marking a milestone towards enabling low-resistive interconnect with line widths below 10nm.
New invention for more efficient atomic force microscopes
Researchers at Vienna University of Technology, Austria, developed an atomic force microscope sensor element of with a customized electronic circuit built directly into the tip whose signal directly provides information about the state of the tip, producing a more compact, simpler to process, cheaper technology with precision just as good as with previous devices.
RoodMicrotec and SGA enter into cooperation for ASIC testing
RoodMicrotec, Netherlands, a leading independent company for semiconductors supply and quality services, and Svenska Grindmatriser AB, Sweden, a well-established fabless IDM for the development and supply of customized mixed-signal ASICs, started a cooperation for high-volume production testing of SGA’s ASIC products.
Stanford University sends semiconductor investigation to the International Space Station
Researchers from Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., sent an investigation to the space station to leverage microgravity to improve the synthesis of materials for photovoltaic devices designed to convert sunlight into electricity for solar energy applications.