By Q3D Notes On Jun. 17, 2010
Keith Cooper, Technology and Development, SET North America reports from ECTC 2010's Medical Device Market Panel, offering a view beyond the packaging lab, into the progress and potential of the medical devices that will benefit from 3D integration technologies. A discussion panel on medical devices opened this year’s Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC) in Las Vegas. Chaired Read More>>
By Q3D Notes On Nov. 16, 2010
Keith Cooper, Technology and Development, SET North America reports from 2010 IMAPS International , where he attended the 3D Panel, “Roadmap, Technical and Business Progress of 3D Integration and Packaging”. At the recent IMAPS Annual Meeting in Raleigh, NC, a panel of 3D experts addressed a series of questions moderated by Prof. James Lu of RPI.   While individual opinions on the panel Read More>>
By Francoise von Trapp On Sep. 27, 2010
This was my second year attending the Medical Electronics Symposium, and I’m not sure what I was expecting, but when it came to technology advancements themselves, I noticed that not much exciting has happened since last year. Or maybe I’ve just been spoiled.  Not every year can be about earth-shattering technological breakthroughs. This was the year about continuing progress of the breakthroughs Read More>>
By Q3D Notes On Aug. 25, 2009
It all begins with a problem that needs a solution. In this case, it was how to perform sleep diagnostics in a patient’s natural surroundings. Then low and behold, the solution to this could be repackaged to also become a solution for monitoring long-term cardiac performance. Read More>>
By Q3D Notes On Mar. 20, 2012
There has been enough interest stirred up in R&D around glass as a low-cost alternative interposer substrate material compared with silicon, that there was an entire session dedicated to developments in that area at the 2012 IMAPS International Device Packaging conference, held March 5-8 in Scottsdale, AZ.  Rao Tummala, of Georgia Tech’s 3D Packaging Center, started things off, touting the Read More>>