http://www.nanowerk.com/ Nanotechnology business news headlines from Nanowerk Copyright 2005-2010 Nanowerk LLC http://www.nanowerk.com/ http://www.nanowerk.com/images/logo10.gif michael@nanowerk.com (Michael Berger) en-us Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:22:23 -0400 http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15397.php Capturing all relevant data in just a single, short measurement, the Mastersizer 2000 particle size analyzer from Malvern Instruments is ideal for fully automated soil analysis. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15397.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15400.php AIXTRON AG today announced that Tekcore Co. Ltd of Taiwan has placed a multiple order for AIXTRON's latest MOCVD System, the AIX G5 HT, to expand their manufacturing capacity of high brightness light emitting diodes (HB-LEDs). http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15400.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15379.php Filmetrics has announced the opening of film thickness measurement Application Labs in Tainan, Taiwan and Munich, Germany. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15379.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15380.php NanoHorizons Inc., a leader in the creation of nanoscale antimicrobial performance additives for textile, health care, industrial, and consumer products, announced that the Small Business Commerce Association of San Francisco has awarded them the 2009 Best of Business Award in the Chemical Additives category. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15380.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15382.php Analytica, March 23 through 26, 2010, at the Munich Trade Fair Centre, has developed into one of world's largest trade fairs for laboratory technology, analysis, and biotechnology. Micromeritics, located in Halle A1, Stand 121 will introduce significant developments in material characterization instrumentation. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15382.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15383.php Iosil Energy Corporation, an innovator in the production of high-purity solar grade polysilicon for the photovoltaic industry, announced today that it has secured $13.5 million in equity financing in an oversubscribed round. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15383.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15385.php This project to produce equipment capable of detecting explosives and narcotics for security systems recently won approval by the Supervisory Council of the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15385.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15386.php Molecular and cellular image manipulation software, Voxel Tracker is first-of-its-kind. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15386.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15388.php Keith Blakely has been selected as the new Chief Executive Officer of NanoMech, a Springdale-based designer and manufacturer of application-specific nanoparticle additives, coatings and coating deposition systems. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15388.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15390.php JEOL USA and the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) today jointly announced the University's acquisition of the new JEOL atomic resolution Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM). The new ARM200F is an aberration-corrected TEM that achieves better than 1 Angstrom resolution in STEM and TEM and chemical analysis at the atomic level. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15390.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15395.php Asylum Research, a technology leader in scanning probe/atomic force microscopy (AFM/SPM), in collaboration with LENS (Laboratory for Energy and Nano Science), MASDAR Institute of Science and Technology, was recently invited to showcase the MFP-3D AFM at the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) 2010 in Abu Dhabi. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15395.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15352.php Seiko Instruments Inc. has succeeded in developing a high precision siliconbased MEMS resonator. In addition, it has also succeeded in the development of a new wafer level packaging technology for vacuum sealing MEMS devices. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15352.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15353.php AIXTRON AG today announced an order for one Black Magic CNT (carbon nanotube) deposition system from the Eidgenoessische Materialpruefungs- und Forschungsanstalt (EMPA), Switzerland. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15353.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15356.php For a limited time, and only available online, these special web promotions include a price reduction on Zeiss's top-rated stereomicroscopy instrument and a 5 percent discount for conversion of certain existing models of Zeiss research microscopes into a 3D imaging workstation. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15356.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15363.php Dolomite is sponsoring 5 undergraduate students of the University of Waterloo, Canada, in developing a new micropump technology as part of the Nanotechnology Engineering Programme. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15363.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15364.php Camtek Ltd. announced today that a leading Semiconductor Foundry in Taiwan has selected the Falcon, Camtek's Automatic Optical Inspection system, for metrology and inspection solution for the 3D integration circuits process. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15364.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15366.php Exponent Testing's preliminary results show better-than-anticipated performance for EcoloCap's Nano Lithium Battery. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15366.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15367.php Novellus Systems today announced the establishment of a joint development program with the IBM Corporation to design a manufacturing-worthy, copper-based, three dimensional semiconductor Through-Silicon Via process using Novellus' SABRE copper electroplating and VECTOR plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition systems. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15367.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15368.php Mentor Graphics Corp., a leader in electronic design automation, and STMicroelectronics one of the world's leading semiconductor suppliers, today announced a broad-scoped collaboration to develop advanced design solutions at the 32-nm technology node and down to 20-nm node. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15368.php http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15369.php Through several Space Act Agreements, the newly formed group is positioned to take a leading role in bringing into the commercial/private sector, proprietary NASA technologies including advancements in energy production, battery (Storage) technologies, nanotechnology and health related advancements. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=15369.php