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Materials Design announces a joint presentation with University of Texas at Dallas, KAUST, and Texas Instruments at the 2010 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits on June 17th in Honolulu, Hawaii.

The presentation will describe the results of a close collaboration including experiment and atomistic simulation, and illustrates the power of this complementarity in guiding the development of materials and processes for microelectronic applications.

Materials Design, Inc. announces an exclusive distribution agreement with Taiwan Auto-Design Company (TADC). Under this agreement, TADC will distribute Materials Design software and services in Taiwan.

Materials Design's senior scientist Mathew D. Halls, Ph.D. will be delivering an invited presentation in the plenary session for "First-Principles Calculations for ALD: Precursors, Processes, and Interfaces" at the 10th international conference on Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD 2010). The ALD 2010 conference will be held at the Seoul Education Culture Center, Seoul, Korea from June 20 to 23, 2010. Dr. Halls will present on June 21st.

Materials Design announces an exclusive distribution agreement with Kyung Won Engineering & Communication (KWEnC). Under the agreement, KWEnC will distribute Materials Design’s software and services in South Korea. 

“We selected KWEnC because of their commitment to science and their demonstrated success in providing high-quality support to customers using scientific and engineering software,” said Erich Wimmer, CEO of Materials Design.

A Materials Design client and colleague, Dr. Louis G. Hector, Jr. of the General Motors R&D Center, has been honored with two GM R&D Innovation Awards for his research on:

1. Fundamentals of Interfacial Tribology
2. Multi-scale Modeling of High-temperature Deformation in Aluminum