The current proliferation of electronic devices, including smart phones, music players, tablets, and cameras has created a huge demand for semiconductor memory chips. New and more complex applications and functionality for many of these devices is adding to that demand.
In today’s economy, in which metal fabrication is moving towards commoditization, life science offers specialization, value, and synergies to industrial gas companies. Life science markets are diverse and cover a broad range of applications and research including: biobanks (population based, therapeutic, and...
The light emitting diodes (LED) industry continues to make great technological advances that will speed the replacement of conventional incandescent and fluorescent bulbs. This rapid growth will require increasing volumes of high purity hydrogen used in the production process of these...
From March 18–21, for the first time ever, the 2013 Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon) (pittcon.org) came to the Philadelphia Conference Center in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By all indications, it won’t be the...
Dynamic changes to R&D processes, tools, technical challenges, and funding/business models will highlight the upcoming SEMICON West 2013 (semiconwest.org) exhibition. Product displays of the latest semiconductor manufacturing technology, components, and subsystems will also be an integral part of SEMICON...
Four parts per billion (ppb) of moisture almost cost Tiger Optics a major order from a large chipmaker. In the demo phase, Tiger’s new LaserTrace 3 analyzer, boasting the lowest detection limits and greatest sensitivity in its field,...
We are six months away from the “new world” of health insurance. On January 1, 2014, many of the major provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) go into effect, including the Individual Mandate and the Employer...
It is generally accepted that the massive amounts of CO2 that have been released into our atmosphere from industrial and other human activities are harmful to our global environment. Much research has been done in attempts to find...
Over the last few years B&R Compliance (brcompliance.com) has been providing CryoGas International subscribers with periodic status reports on the impending changes to FDA regulations related to the processing and packaging of foods. We have been predicting the FDA...
Carbon dioxide (CO2), the primary greenhouse gas produced by human activities, is causing global warming and climate change, but higher levels of CO2 in the air can also assist plant growth and improve their ability to cope with...
