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Although redistributed chip packaging (RCP) broke through to the top slot, the rest of our most popular news this week was all solar. Two of our Top 5 articles this week detail recent breakthroughs in solar cell efficiency. And check out No. 3: a company that’s actually making a profit in the solar sector – after almost 40 years in the business.

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  • Softer Memory Market Impacts Probe Card Manufacturers
    VLSI Research Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) reports that weakness in the semiconductor industry pushed down sales growth of probe cards used for testing IC wafers to 13.9% in 2007.

  • Dow Corning opens solar module, assembly app center
    To collaborate with customers in the development, evaluation and pilot material solutions used to manufacture solar panels, Freeland, Mich.–based Dow Corning Corp has opened a solar solutions application center at its headquarters.

  • University working to create nanostructures to raise thin-film solar cell efficiency
    Researchers at the University of California, San Diego led by Professor Edward Yu are working to create thin-film “single junction” solar cells with 45% sunlight-to-electricity conversion efficiencies by using nanostructures that scatter and channel light, electrical engineers.

  • OLPC XO laptops add Windows OS
    Despite its original goal to offer the world's poorest children a $100 laptop that ran free, open-source, tinkerable software, One Laptop per Child is adding the Microsoft Windows operating system to its XO laptops. The easily recognizable green laptops will also continue to host Linux.


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Dan Herr is director of Nanomanufacturing Science Research at SRC. An important part of his research focuses on nanotechnology’s demands on metrology, and he discusses his work to determine where metrology technology’s gaps are, and how to fill them.

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