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They achieve this by removing residual organic metal-binding ligands from the transition metal oxide thin films, enhancing device stability and performance.

NEW BRAUNFELS, TX—Continental has officially opened a new, $110 million assembly plant here. The factory is expected to employ more than 500 people.

DURHAM, NC—Wolfspeed Inc. will build a state-of-the-art, multi-billion-dollar factory in Chatham County, North Carolina, to produce wide-bandgap semiconductors made from silicon carbide. The new factory will increase the company’s manufacturing capacity by more than 10 fold.

BOISE, ID—Micron Technology Inc. plans to invest approximately $15 billion through the end of the decade to construct a new factory here to make memory chips. This will be the first new memory manufacturing fab built in the U.S. in 20 years, ensuring a domestic supply of memory chips required for automobiles, data centers and other applications.

BATESVILLE, IN—IKIO LED Lighting LLC is planning to build a new assembly plant and warehouse facility here.

Thanks to their strength, corrosion resistance and formability, carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (CFRP) are increasingly being used for automotive and aerospace structures. Adhesives are ideal for assembling CFRP. 

Based in Genoa, Italy, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) is one of the best research centers throughout all of Europe. Researchers there focus on several specialties, including robotics, computer vision and optical microscopy.

WASHINGTON—Siemens will invest $54 million across several key U.S. manufacturing facilities that serve critical infrastructure markets.

KITCHENER, ON—Christie Digital Systems USA Inc. is using robots to automate assembly of its MicroTile LEDs at its new factory here. The robots have tripled output of the line.

TORRINGTON, CT—NASA has listed light-curable conformal coating 9771 from Dymax Corp. on its Materials and Processes Technical Information System (MAPTIS).