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Keithley Instruments - Press Release 9-20-2007
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Keithley and CNSI Announce Nanotechnology
Measurement Partnership
Collaboration to promote rapid commercialization of discoveries
in nanosystems
Cleveland, Ohio – September
20, 2007 -
Keithley Instruments,
Inc. (NYSE:KEI), a leader in solutions for emerging measurement
needs, today announced a new partnership with The California NanoSystems
Institute at UCLA. The partnership is designed to support research collaboration
in the pursuit of nanotechnology and nanoscience solutions for the semiconductor
industry's next generation instrumentation and measurement requirements.
Keithley and the CNSI will share research information to further the
understanding of nanotechnology and nanoelectronic technologies.
Keithley will join the CNSI Partners Program at the Associate Level.
The CNSI Partners Program was designed to support the Institute's efforts
to cultivate collaborations with companies interested in supporting
its mission to enable rapid commercialization of discoveries in nanosystems.
As a partner Keithley will work closely with CNSI faculty members to
advance important research initiatives. The company will also provide
expert technical support and expects to be instrumental in collaborative
research.
A variety of Keithley instrumentation, such as the
Model 4200-SCS Semiconductor Characterization System used in nanotech
research facilities worldwide, will be used for collaborative research
in the WIN/FENA lab space at the CNSI facility.
"Keithley brings
to our facility advanced measurement capabilities that will help move
our research forward," said Kang Wang, professor of Electrical Engineering
at UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and
Director of both WIN and FENA Centers. "Its sensitive test technology
is well suited for applications such as current voltage characterization
of carbon nanotube electronics, molecular electronics, nanoscale field
effect devices, and materials research."
The Western Institute
of Nanoelectronics (WIN), a center within the Nanoelectronics Research
Initiative (NRI), together with the center on Functional Engineered
Nano Architectonics (FENA), a center within the Focus Center Research
Program (FCRP) which are both semiconductor industry-funded centers,
work to create and investigate new nano-engineered functional materials
and devices, and novel structural and computational architectures for
new information processing systems beyond the limits of conventional
CMOS technology.
"Keithley chose to work with CNSI and the WIN/FENA
organizations because of their world-class team of scientists with expertise
in materials science, physics, biology, chemistry and semiconductors,"
stated Mark Hoersten, Keithley vice president, business management.
"Our joint activities will provide information we will be able to apply
to future products that we create for nanoscience and the semiconductor
industry, and our equipment will aid the WIN/FENA scientists in their
important research. This partnership gives us the opportunity to create
exciting new measurement technologies necessary for moving nanoelectronic
technology from the research lab into full-scale production," Hoersten
added.
Keithley Instruments is the world leader in the creation
of electrical measurement solutions for nanotechnology. This important
new area of research promises significant advances in electronics, materials,
biotechnology, alternative energy sources, and dozens of other applications.
With their unequalled performance, Keithley measurement tools enable
nanotechnology researchers to observe phenomena that were impossible
to measure just a few years ago. Unlocking secrets at the nanoscale
level is accelerating the transition from nanotech research labs to
commercial production.
About the CNSI
The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) is a multidisciplinary
research center at UCLA whose mission is to encourage university-industry
collaboration and to enable the rapid commercialization of discoveries
in nanosystems. CNSI members include some of the world's preeminent
scientists, and the work conducted at the Institute represents world-class
expertise in five targeted areas of nanosystems-related research: renewable
energy, environmental nanotechnology and nanotoxicology, nanobiotechnology
and biomaterials, nanomechanical and nanofluidic systems, and nanoelectronics,
photonics and architectonics. For additional information, visit www.cnsi.ucla.edu.
About Keithley Instruments, Inc.
With
more than 60 years of measurement expertise, Keithley Instruments has
become a world leader in advanced electrical test instruments and systems
from DC to RF (radio frequency). Our products solve emerging measurement
needs in production testing, process monitoring, product development,
and research. Our customers are scientists and engineers in the worldwide
electronics industry involved with advanced materials research, semiconductor
device development and fabrication, and the production of end products
such as portable wireless devices. The value we provide them is a combination
of precision measurement technology and a rich understanding of their
applications to improve the quality of their products and reduce their
cost of test.
For More Information. For more
information on any of Keithley's sensitive measurement and nanotechnology
test solutions, contact the company at:
Telephone: 800-688-9951
440-248-0400
FAX: 440-248-6168
E-mail: publisher@keithley.com
Internet: www.keithley.com
Address: Keithley Instruments, Inc.
28775 Aurora Road
Cleveland, OH 44139-1891
Products and company names listed are
trademarks or trade names of their respective companies.
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