JMAR receives $3.1 million to develop X-ray maks
San Diego company, known for its water-quality monitoring system, receives funding to develop X-ray maks for fabrication of high-speed C-RAM with 50-35 nanometer features
San Diego, California-based JMAR Technologies (NASDAQ: JMAR), known for its innovative BioSentry water-quality monitoring system, has received a $3.1 million award by Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). This is the latest increment to be added to JMAR’s current contract, which has a value of $17.5 million, to continue development of sub-100nm feature X-ray masks and next-generation nanolithography.
The contract calls for JMAR to use its patented X-ray stepper and point source technologies to develop X-ray masks for fabrication of high-speed C-RAM with 50-35 nanometer features, enabling 16 megabyte and higher densities for high-priority military and space applications. Three JMAR X-Ray Lithography (XRL) stepper systems will be used in the development of these and other next-generation memory devices. The C-RAM program is a joint Navy-Air Force development effort for radiation-hardened, low power, silicon memory devices. We note that this technology has several commercial applications — as memory densities increase, C-RAM will be a faster, lower power replacement for non-volatile memory applications currently using Flash memory in cell phones, portable computers and solid-state mechanical hard disks.
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