NIKKEI MICRODEVICES December 2008 vol.282

Cover Story
Battle of 450mm Si wafer

Special Feature
Variety of proposals for market creation at FPD International 2008

LSI

  • Inside Next-generation exposure technology overcomes problems in double patterning
  • Report Nonvolatile DRAM makes its debut
  • Report Looking back 2008 electronics market

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  • Report IMID 2008 highlights the strategies of Korean FPD makers

MEMS

  • Inside China aims to be a world's MEMS factory
  • Report New businesses flood into the MEMS microphone market
  • Report US venture firm becomes a strong candidate for Wii sensor vendor

Tutorial Energy

Front-line of solar battery technology development (9)

Emerging Technology

Making an actuator with a bell-animalcule

Key Word

Super resolution

Key Person

IMEC installs a 450mm wafer line

Interview

Tokyo Ohka Kogyo's solar cell business strategy

Watcher/International

Worlds latest news

New Products

  • Bevel etching chamber /Dainippon Screen Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
  • Dry etching system/Hitachi High-Technologies Corp.
  • I-line stepper/Canon Inc.
  • Water recycling unit for dicing saws /Disco Corp.
  • Wafer inspection system/Lasertec Corp.
  • Wafer bonding system /EV Group
  • Wafer bonding machine,wafer removing machine/Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.
  • Heat-resistant fiber alignment sensor/SUNX Ltd.
EDITORS' BLOG

Pixel Qi and the Impending Apple "MediaBook?"

Following the latest Apple rumors is something of a Silicon Valley sport, so I'm going to put my own spin on one. Note this one has no basis on anything other then my own fevered imaginings, so treat accordingly. (May 22) read more

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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

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