Re: Ever heard of Potato Semiconductor?

On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:51:39 GMT, Jonathan Kirwan
<jkirwan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 07:25:56 -0700 (PDT), bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:

When I was installing our first voltage contrast electron
microscope at Siemens

Bill, do you have any knowledge about the US company, FEI, and its
gallium beam milling systems? They were conjoined at the hip with
some Philips company in Heerenveen, I think, and merged electron beam
imaging with gallium beam milling for disk drive head manufacture and
the like.

Jon

They also use it for sample prep for atom probe microscopy...

http://www.imago.com/imago/

http://www.imago.com/imago/newsevent/pressContent.do?method=pressContents&articleID=60

FEI might also buy Imago one of these days, not that it will do me any
good. As usual, the vultures are first in line.

John

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