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  Welcome to J microTechnology your source for probe stations, test fixtures, CPW-microstip adapter substrates, coaxial ...
J microTechnology offers accessory products for the electrical test of advanced semiconductor devices and packaging products.
To this end, J microTechnology products offer an unprecedented, for this industry, level of performance and compatibility.
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  Microtechnology -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Microtechnology is (The practical application of science to commerce or industry) technology with features near one (Click link for more info and facts about micrometre) micrometre (one millionth of a ((prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse) metre, or 10
Microtechnology is often constructed using (A planographic printing process using plates made from a photographic image) photolithography.
Microtechnology's most famous success is the (A microelectronic computer circuit incorporated into a chip or semiconductor; a whole system rather than a single component) integrated circuit.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/microtechnology.htm   (888 words)

  
 EMDM: March/April 1999: Special Report on Microtechnology
Similarly, the emergence of microtechnology on a vast scale is dependent on manufacturing systems that can reliably, rapidly, and economically produce the components.
The machine was launched at K 98 in Düsseldorf, Germany, where it was shown moulding a polycarbonate part weighing 0.002 g that is designed to house a sensor and to be implanted in a human ear.
"Microtechnology uses micro amounts of materials," says Holger Moritz of the Institut für Microtechnik in Mainz, Germany, and that is developing into a problem for companies moulding miniature components.
www.devicelink.com /emdm/archive/99/03/report.html   (2062 words)

  
 (News & Analysis) Microtechnology Joins Mainstream at World’s Largest Industrial Show (MDDI archive, Jun 02)
For the first time, microtechnology received equal billing with subcontracting, factory automation, logistics, surface treatment, energy, and RandD at the annual showcase for German and European industry.
This carries considerable weight within the industry, and was greeted with enthusiasm by the almost 300 exhibitors in the microtechnology hall.
Although automotive and electronics represent the largest markets for microtechnology, it also has had an appreciable impact on the design and development of medical equipment.
www.devicelink.com /mddi/archive/02/06/013.html   (835 words)

  
 CRC for microTechnology website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Microtechnology is the convergence of a multitude of technologies and disciplines – physics, chemistry, engineering, biotechnology, medicine, nanotechnology, materials science, microelectronics, lithography and IT – deployed in structures and devices with features in the micron domain.
The CRC for microTechnology was formed in 1999 and has a total budget of A$64 million.Through its participants, it has access to existing top-class research facilities, a pool of talented staff, built-in international networks and both industrial and academic background Intellectual Property (IP).
Microsystems are devices that are designed and built of structures that are either layered and patterned, or fabricated by patterning thicker, bulk material.
www.microtechnologycrc.com /CRC/crcmicro.nsf   (431 words)

  
 Micro Tech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fields in which microtechnology applications are most common include automation, sound and image processing, control and regulation, detection and warning, precision measurement, electronic components, miniaturized subsystems, and material processing.
Microtechnology is also applied to a wide range of fundamental technologies used to support all levels of industry.
The long history of microtechnology in Vaud means that the canton has a range of young, middle aged, and old established firms.
www.invest-switzerland-vaud.ch /en/020202.asp   (665 words)

  
 PNNL, OSU join forces in microtechnology
"We predict that 10 years from now you'll be seeing microtechnology products in your daily lives," said Kevin Drost, a mechanical engineering professor at OSU and codirector of the institute.
The lab and the university expect the new institute to have a facility with 50 to 60 staff and a research budget of $20 million annually within five years.
Each organization already is well known in the microtechnology field, but each has different strengths.
www.tri-cityherald.com /news/2002/1114/story4.html   (655 words)

  
 Microtechnology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
CSIRO Microtechnology added a 'hologram effect' to the last of the Royal Australian Mint's Year of the Outback series of...
Ehrfeld, head of the Mainz Institute for Microtechnology (IMM), we are about to witness the...
The LMS-2709 Laboratory Microprobe Station from J microTechnology is designed for 1-port and 2-port S-parameter RF...
hallencyclopedia.com /Microtechnology   (341 words)

  
 Pathways to Technology - Tech Fields: Microtechnology and Nanotechnology
Microtechnology is the technology that enables computers to do more with less — packing more transistors and computing power into smaller and smaller chips.
Whenever you use an automatic door lock in a car, a cell phone, or a microwave oven, you are witnessing advances in microtechnology.
Microtechnology takes massive amounts of information and condenses it in a very small area, such as a silicon wafer or the microchip used in computers and mobile phones.
www.pathwaystotechnology.org /fields/fl_microtechnology.html   (268 words)

  
 History
The University of Washington is beginning a process of realigning its educational and research programs to address a cluster of related technologies that will dominate industrial growth in the next century.
We name this diverse cluster of engineering and scientific sub-disciplines "microtechnology," in that they share a focus on the manipulation of matter at the micrometer scale.
The microtechnology employers of our students will be at the center of the upcoming curriculum revision process.
www.ee.washington.edu /research/microtech/History.htm   (545 words)

  
 The Center for Applied Microtechnology
The applied microtechnology program is one of the fastest growing research centers at the at the University of Washington, with active faculty and student participartion from a number of departments in engineering and science.
Our mission is to perform cutting-edge research in these and related areas, and to provide students with thorough knowledge and hands-on experience in the various aspects of microtechnology.
Microtechnology has already revolutionized the way we live, as the basis for the integrated circuits and computer industry.
www.ee.washington.edu /research/microtech/cam   (179 words)

  
 DrexlerNanotechnology81PNAS
Biochemical systems exhibit a "microtechnology" quite different from ours: they are not built down from the macroscopic level but up from the atomic.
Biochemical microtechnology provides a beachhead at the molecular level from which to develop new molecular systems by providing a variety of "tools" and "devices" to use and to copy.
As present microtechnology (2) can lay down conductors on a molecular scale (10 nm) and molecular devices can respond to electric potentials (through conformation changes, etc.), such devices can be controlled by human operators or macroscopic machines.
www.imm.org /PNAS.html   (4296 words)

  
 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Livermore, CA:Microtechnology
The Microtechnology Center, a multidisciplinary engineering and science center, partners with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) programs and external customers to solve problems by using state-of-the-art microelectronics technology.
By inventing and applying new microtechnologies, the Center enables its partners and customers to achieve their goals in global security, biosciences, and global ecology.
The Microtechnology Center focuses on technologies needed by its customers that are not available elsewhere.
www.bmpcoe.org /bestpractices/internal/llnl/llnl_22.html   (377 words)

  
 Using microtechnology to get to nanotechnology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Microtechnology is building the tools researchers need to turn nanoscience into nanotechnology.
Most scientists and engineers involved in nanoscience are devising methods of measuring, manipulating, and observing nanoscale events and features rather than developing commercial or industrial-applications.
We are still far from manipulating molecules in a bulk material to change material properties on a larger scale.
www.machinedesign.com /ASP/viewSelectedArticle.asp?strArticleId=57172&strSite=MDSite&catId=0   (2225 words)

  
 MicroTechnology Center Current Projects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Microtechnology is widely used by many LLNL Programs to solve problems of national importance.
Glass-to-Glass, Silicon-to-Glass and Silicon-to Silicon Bonding - We have the capability to align and fuse together glass and/or silicon substrates that have been patterned and etched for use in various devices and instruments.
These films are sputter-deposited in a process which is compatible with batch fabrication silicon micromachining techniques.
microtechnology.llnl.gov /current_projects.html   (956 words)

  
 New Microtechnology Center Planned in Vermont - 16 of December, 2003 - Photonics.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
RUTLAND, Vt., Dec. 16 -- A microtechnology center with the potential to generate hundreds of jobs is about to be created in Bennington, Vt., according to an article in Monday's Rutland Herald.
   The center will test the production of microtechnology devices, creating about a dozen high-paying jobs at first, the article said, and companies that use the facility and find their product ideas successful could relocate or expand in town, giving Bennington a much-needed economic boost.
It is one of the few in the US that combines fundamental research with new approaches to microtechnology challenges in assembly and packaging.
photonics.com /todaysheadlines/XQ/ASP/url.lookup/id.4514/QX/today.htm   (436 words)

  
 Latest news from C-Mac Microtechnology on Electronicstalk
C-Mac Microtechnology has won a major contract, expected to be worth around GBP 8 million over the next five years, from Galileo Avionica.
C-Mac MicroTechnology has developed a range of TCXO (temperature compensated crystal oscillators) pre-eminently suitable for "Beidou" receivers.
C-Mac Microtechnology has a new range of highly competitive single-oven oven-controlled crystal oscillators.
www.electronicstalk.com /news/cma/cma000.html   (291 words)

  
 Microtechnology at Hannover Fair 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Microtechnology Exchange will be located within Hall 6 as part of the HANNOVER FAIR's Microtechnology sector, which last year hosted roughly 35,000 visitors and 300 exhibitors.
The MEMS Industry Group is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is the official trade association of the U.S. Microtechnology industry.
Founded by Dr. Ken Gabriel and Dr. John Seely-Brown in 2001, MEMS IG is the trade association representing the MEMS industry.
www.memsnet.org /news/996697215-3   (321 words)

  
 Sci-Tech Today - - Microtechnology To Chill Clothes, Cars
The process -- which uses microtechnology to achieve a heat-actuated, heat-absorption pump -- runs on small amounts of diesel fuel and requires no electricity.
Drost said the personalized cooling system, which would be the size of a large paperback book, takes advantage of heat absorption's lack of required electrical power and eliminates the size restrictions of traditional heat-absorption systems.
While electronic cooling involves lowering the temperatures, Drost said that the microtechnology might also find applications in cooling electronic environments, particularly in the small world of nanotechnology.
www.sci-tech-today.com /perl/story/18683.html   (469 words)

  
 Nanotechnology & Microtechnology - Oregon Seattle Vancouver Portland Washington DC Attorney Lawyer
The alliance, called ONAMI - the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (www.onami.us) (previously the Multiscale Materials Devices Initiative or MMDI) leverages the complementary research strength of Oregon State University, University of Oregon, Portland State University, Pacific Northwest Laboratory and private sector players such as Hewlett-Packard, Intel Capital and FEI.
Some of the research that ONAMI is undertaking includes development of a wide range of very small, superefficient devices - from fist-sized heat pumps and dialysis filters the size of a matchbox to higher capacity chips for the semiconductor industry and the next generation of ink-jet printers.
This unique collaboration among industry, academia, federal and state government and the legal community will be helpful in building a new generation of companies based on strong technology and innovation.
www.schwabe.com /showarea.asp?Show=162   (324 words)

  
 Hannover Messe - MicroTechnology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
MicroTechnology has made its mark as the leading international marketplace for microsystems technology and nanotechnology.
The MicroTechnology FORUM put a big spotlight on products and trends from the world of high-tech miniaturization.
International Microtechnology Pavilion organized by IVAM Microtechnology Network.
www.hannovermesse.de /microtechnology_e?x=1   (140 words)

  
 News - Center for Microtechnology Established
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (10/5/98) -- The Aerospace Corporation has established a Center for Microtechnology to provide management, coordination and oversight for the growing number of corporate microtechnology activities which have expanded significantly since 1990.
The center is being managed by Principal Director Seymour Feuerstein, Ph.D., the company's principal investigator of corporate research and strategic initiatives in microtechnology.
Feuerstein will be joined by three members of the Aerospace technical staff who have been instrumental in the corporation's growth in microtechnology.
www.aero.org /news/newsitems/microtech-100598.html   (126 words)

  
 Small Times: News about MEMS, Nanotechnology and Microsystems
The microtechnology section, too, had fewer exhibitors and some are asking whether large-scale, general trade shows like this Hanover have much of a future.
The fair is made up of several different trade shows, including microtechnology, factory automation, subcontracting and energy.
The microtechnology forum allowed companies to present their products and applications to other visitors.
www.smalltimes.com /document_display.cfm?document_id=7773   (796 words)

  
 Plextek designs new product line for C-MAC MicroTechnology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
MicroTechnology comments: 'The DRO is an exciting new venture for C-MAC MicroTechnology.
This is the first of a number of higher frequency oscillator products that we will be manufacturing, as it broadens our portfolio of products servicing the optical and wireless communications markets.
C-MAC MicroTechnology produces a wide range of components, including hybrid circuits, low-temperature co-fired ceramics, fibre optical modules and frequency control products, for the wireless communications, automotive, industrial, aerospace and military industries worldwide.
www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk /pooled/articles/BF_NEWSART/view.asp?Q=BF_NEWSART_32848   (615 words)

  
 eBearing News - FAG Acquires 26% of Microtechnology Venture
As ventures into the fields of microtechnology and nanotechnology heat up, bearing manufacturers are increasingly becoming involved.
The founders, Dr. Wolfgang Ehrfeld and his wife Ursula, also founded the Institute of Microtechnology Mainz.
Ehrfeld is a pioneer in microtechnology and nanotechnology, currently holding over 80 patents in the field.
www.ebearing.com /news2001/news280.htm   (176 words)

  
 Laser Spectroscopy and Chemical Microtechnology Group - CSD
An array of 1400 traps, of 40-micrometer diameter fabricated by a partner at Bell Laboratories.
Chemical vapor deposition and characterization of thin nano-textured diamond films is underway, targeted for their use as robust accelerator stripping foils.
Chemical microtechnology activities include micro- and nanofluidics and microfabrication of ion mobility and ion trap mass spectrometers.
www.ornl.gov /sci/csd/Research_areas/lscm_group.html   (240 words)

  
 C-MAC MicroTechnology Homepage - Welcome to C-MAC MicroTechnology
C-MAC MicroTechnology is dedicated to the design, manufacture and supply of electronics for high reliability applications.
Our core skills include the design and manufacture of high frequency, high power electronics for exposure to harsh environments such as extremes of temperature and vibration.
C-MAC MicroTechnology is pleased to be exhibiting on Stand 101 at the Defence Systems and Equipment Exhibition, ExCel, London 11th – 14th September.
www.cmac.com   (218 words)

  
 MicroTechnology News
When people talk about microtechnology it often sounds like science fiction--tiny robots that make repairs deep in the human body, for example.
Also included is the latest news of legislative and regulatory activities, key patents, industry developments, licenses and technology transfer offerings.
There Is Huge Potential In The Tiny World of Microtechnology When people talk about microtechnology it often sounds like science fiction--tiny robots that make repairs deep in the human body, for example.
www.biz-lib.com /ZBUMTN.html   (617 words)

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