NIKKEI MICRODEVICES July 2008 vol.277 -- Tech-On!

NIKKEI MICRODEVICES September 2008 vol.279

Cover Story
New manufacturing technique:System on Film

Special Feature
Domestic solar cell industry pins hope for revival on the “Fukuda Vision”

LSI

Report Sony unveils its advanced packaging plant

Energy

Report 50GW solar cell production is estimated for 2020

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Inside Samurai OLED project
Report Notebook PCs, monitors, and TVs shift to 16:9

MEMS

Inside Learning a lesson from the failure of the MEMS foundry
Report Report from “Exhibition Micromachine/MEMS 2008”

EDA

Inside Ricoh explains the capabilities and limitations of behavioral synthesis

Tutorial LSI

A-Z list of LSI-related materials technologies that add values to devices（6）

Tutorial Energy

Front-line of solar battery technology development（6）

Emerging Technology

Optical lithography reaches 25nm half-pitch resolution

Key Word

Wafer plane inspection

Key Person

Kansai Electric Power builds a large photovoltaic power generation facility

“Hope for DNA chips developed in Japan,” METI says

Interview

Dainippon Screen revolutionalizes digital manufacturing with its electronic devices

Watcher/International

Worlds latest news

New Products

On-chip interconnect IP/Sonics, Inc.
Ellipsometric film thickness measurement system/Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.
Scanning electron microscope/Hitachi High-Technologies Corp.
16 mega-pixel inspection camera/JAI Ltd.

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MAGAZINES IN ENGLISH

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NE Asia fulfills your needs by offering articles covering a wide spectrum of topics. In addition to the English edition, the local editions for Taiwan and Korea now offer editorial sections written by local editors.
Magazine Subscription Information

You can subscribe to the magazines of NikkeiBP from outside Japan at the same price as in Japan!
Magazine Subscription Information
The NE ASIA News Update e-newsletter

Nikkei Electronics Asia (monthly)

We are offering a magazine monthly to qualified engineers and managers free of charge.

In-depth Articles from Nikkei Electronics Asia

Cover Story SSDs Challenge HDDs, but Quality a Problem

Solid-state drives (SSD) using NAND Flash memory are beginning to show up in a variety of equipment as storage devices. Prices are dropping as semiconductor technology continues to evolve, accelerating adoption of the drives, but manufacturers must also deal with eroding quality.

Analysis Expanded Use of Silicon Tuners Transforms Tvs

With analog television broadcasting slated for the axe in about two years in Japan, TV broadcast tuners are evolving rapidly, replacing old radio frequency (RF) analog circuits with new integrated circuits (IC) called silicon tuners. Signal demodulators are evolving with them, and by tracing the direction of their evolution it is possible to delineate the shape of tomorrow's TV.

Convenience Stores Lead in Energy Conservation

Convenience store franchises are moving to slash energy consumption following the revision of the Japanese Act on the Rational Use of Energy, and are rapidly becoming showcases for cutting-edge energy-conservation technology. The technologies honed here will spread to other firms in the distribution industry, office buildings and more, eventually worldwide.