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Veeco Instruments Inc. today announced that Aledia, a developer and manufacturer of next-generation 3D LEDs for display applications based on its gallium-nitride-nanowires-on-silicon platform, has selected Veeco’s Propel® GaN MOCVD system to support advanced research and development. Aledia noted the tool’s large process window, single-wafer reactor technology and defect stability as key factors in its decision to adopt the Propel system.

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Personalized medicine is a term we’ve heard for years. The ability to tailor a patient’s treatment type and dosage to obtain the best response is a holy grail for cancer researchers and clinicians. To this end, new technologies are in development which enable what is called “liquid biopsy” - a simple blood draw used to perform cancer diagnostics based on circulating biomarkers in the bloodstream, such as circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), circulating tumor cells (CTCs), and exosomes. These new techniques and the associated players and market are at the core of Yole Développement’s analysis in its recent report, Liquid Biopsy: From Isolation to Downstream Applications 2018.

Plasma-Therm, the manufacturer of plasma etch, deposition, and advanced packaging equipment for the production of specialty semiconductor devices, announced the successful acquisition of CORIAL, a France-based plasma processing equipment supplier.

Yole Développement’s (Yole) new report, MEMS Pressure Sensor Market and Technologies 2018, sees the MEMS pressure sensor business as being segmented into five markets: automotive, consumer, industrial, medical and avionic. Despite market maturity, there is still room for growth in some applications, like tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS), where Netherlands-headquartered NXP has a significant presence.

A new era of high-performance RF and power switching products has begun. Corning tand Menlo Micro, the company responsible for re-inventing one of the most fundamental building blocks of electronic systems – the electronic switch – announced a major milestone in the development of Menlo’s revolutionary Digital-Micro-Switch (DMS) technology platform. The two companies have demonstrated the successful integration of Through Glass Via (TGV) packaging technology, enabling the expansion of Menlo’s high-performance RF and power products to ultra-small wafer scale packaging.

“Battery IP activity is booming along with the industry”, comments Dr. Fleur Thissandier, Technology & IP Analyst at Knowmade. Therefore, worldwide demand for energy storage devices has been booming since the 2000s, leading to a very dynamic battery market. The number of battery applications is diversifying and growing to span portable consumer devices, electronic devices, electric vehicles and smart grids.