Nanotech Week: European News

Colybris orders MEMS production systems from EV Group

Small Times

February 25, 2008

EV Group, which supplies MEMS and nanotech manufacturing equipment has received a multiple system order from Colibrys, a Swiss MEMS sensor supplier.

This follow-on order is for one EVG520 semiautomated wafer bonding system and two EVG620 fully automated mask/bond aligners.

One bonder and aligner tool set was installed at the Colibrys manufacturing facility in Stafford, Texas in January, while the other will be installed at the company's headquarters in Neuchatel, Switzerland before the end of the first quarter of 2008.

Follow-on orders like this helped EVG realize a 30 percent overall increase in both revenue and order intake in 2007, the company announced in a news release.


Steinmeyer's new manipulator stage targets nano, micro

Small Times

February 25, 2008

Steinmeyer Inc. has released its new high precision micro manipulator stage, MT 130-50-DC, geared toward nanotechnology, metrology, biomedical, and robotics applications.

Manufactured from high strength anodized aluminum, the standard table offers travel of 50 mm with positioning accuracy of 10 µm (micrometer), straightness/flatness runout of +/- 1µm and repeatability of +/- 1µm. With a sleek low profile design, it has a square footprint of 130 mm x 130 mm, height of 43 mm and weighs only 1.8 kg, the company announced in a news release.

Features include reloaded cross roller bearings, precision ground ball screw, limit switches, and integrated dc motor with rotary encoder. This product can be provided as a XY stage and can also be configured as a XYZ system-model MP 130-50-DC as a further enhancement. Motors, encoders and cabling are all hidden inside the table's body.

Motor, limit switch and encoder interface are via SUB-D connectors located in a single area. This stage is suited for semiconductor metrology, biomedical, miniature robotics, and laser industry applications, the company says.