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THE DISRUPTIVE SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES MAGAZINE
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ISSUE N°100 OCTOBER 12, 2010
E D I T O R I A L
People
matter,
technologies
will follow
So here we are … the 100 th issue of Micronews!
When we created the magazine 10 years ago
(with the support of DARPA to create ETIP, the
European Technology Information Program),
we did not even consider how far we could go
and how far our readers would take us. Neither
had we considered that Micronews could
open the way to a complete Media activity,
with four technological magazines on MEMS,
PV, 3D Packaging, Power & Compound
Semiconductors, and a daily updated website
(i-micronews). … Since the 1 st issue of
Micronews to this 100th, not only has our
media activity increased but our readership
has increased by a factor of 5! We could have
not done this without all the great input and
feedback from you our readers, Thanks!
MEMS
PHOTONICS
New markets inspire growth at Modulight
Modulight, a privately held laser developer
based in Tampere, Finland, has announced
a 35% growth in sales for the first half of
2010 compared with the same period last year. The
result adds fuel to the fire that the optics industry
has felt the worst effects of the global economic
downturn and is moving steadily towards a period
of greater stability.
“One of our customers is involved in the handheld
sports rangefinders business, a much more
consumer-oriented field than our traditional highspecification
applications. This market is really
taking off for us - we are talking about hundreds of
thousands of devices per year for initial production
ramp up. Traditionally we have tried to keep away
Medical lasers at Modulight
from this type of high volume-low margin area, but at pico-projection, Modulight is targeting larger
we happen to have an extremely competitive style cinema projection systems as it believes it
offering,” he commented.
can offer something different…
Another emerging market for Modulight is displays
and projection, which exploits its ChiliLase red
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…2 diode lasers. Unlike many laser companies aiming
Pixtronix and Hitachi Displays announce successful joint development
Displays built based upon Pixtronix PerfectLight MEMS display technology to be demonstrated at CEATEC.
Pixtronix announced the successful joint
development with Hitachi Displays, Ltd. of
its PerfectLight low power MEMS display
technology for mobile multimedia applications.
The two companies recently completed the
development of prototype displays, which leverage
ADVANCED PACKAGING
3D-IC memory with wide I/O interface is coming by
2013 says NOKIA
Kauppi Kujala from NOKIA announced at Semicon Taiwan 2010 Show the
high volume adoption of through silicon vias (TSV) for « wide IO » for DRAM
and logic integration by 2013.
In a presentation made at Semicon Taiwan, senior
engineering and R&D manager Kauppi Kujala of
Nokia disclosed the company roadmaps for 3D
integration. He described the steps from “2.5D” to true
PLATINUM PARTNERS
Handheld sports rangefinders and laser cinema fuel a 35% growth at Modulight
during the first half of 2010.
“3D” using various applications of TSVs in silicon
interposers, memories and integrated
circuits (ICs).
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the Pixtronix proprietary technology and were built
by Hitachi Displays. These displays were
demonstrated by Hitachi Displays at CEATEC
Japan exhibition, October 5-9, Makuhari Messe,
Tokyo, Japan.
The PerfectLight display is an innovative lowpower
multimedia display for portable devices,
achieving 135% NTSC color gamut, 24-bit color
depth, 170-degree viewing angles, and 100
microsecond shutter response times; all
with a 75% power reduction over LCD
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displays…
C O N T E N T S
•MEMS 6
•MICROFLUIDICS 11
•COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTORS 13
•PHOTONICS 15
•PHOTOVOLTAIC 16
•ADVANCED PACKAGING 19
•NANOTECHNOLOGY 21
•POWER ELECTRONICS 22
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