Posted on: Oct 28th, 2009
Applied Materials, Inc. today announced that it has expanded its breakthrough AKT- PiVot 55KV PVD system to include advanced copper deposition processing for manufacturing TFT-LCD flat panel displays.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
The 5-year grant will fund research which could lead to ways to produce highly flexible solar panels.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
The National Research Council Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre (NRC-CPFC) assists clients to develop and commercialize innovative photonics technologies. Client firms to generate about $500 million in the next five years, according to an Impact Analysis Report released today at a photonics industry event hosted by the Ottawa Photonics Cluster.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
A multidisciplinary team of researchers is the first to find an innovative and novel way to control an electron's spin orientation using purely electrical means.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
Researcher Dr. David H. Hughes of the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y. is leading a team investigating long-distance, mobile optical links imperative for secure quantum communications capabilities in theater.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
A consortium led by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston has been awarded a major grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to establish a center to conduct innovative cancer research.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
Sandia researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes of liquid, even in complicated spaces.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced it is collaborating with Stanford University in a research program designed to explore a new class of nanoscale devices using a combinations of the scanning probe microscope (SPM) and atomic layer deposition (ALD).
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration and MSGI Security Solutions Inc. today announced under the terms of two Space Act Agreements, it will partner with MSGI, to advance solar cell technology and develop nano-chemical sensors.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
Piezo specialist PI has published a paper on image resolution enhancement and image stabilization for electronic imaging sensors based on fast piezo actuation.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
Manhattan Scientifics and Senior Scientific, LLC announced today that they have begun cooperative work to commercialize Senior Scientific's nanomedicine cancer detection technology.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
The Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF) has received $1.38 million in federal stimulus funds to help with equipment upgrades.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
Unveiling plans for a 100,000(+)-square-foot research facility located at the South Campus of Gateway University Research Park in Greensboro, N.C., North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro will host the official groundbreaking of the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN) on Monday, Nov. 9.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
CVD Equipment Corporation announced today that Brookhaven National Laboratory has contracted with the Company to design and build a custom Magnetron Sputtering System that will support the new National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) project being built at Brookhaven Lab in Upton, Long Island, New York.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
The development of interaction between Japanese and Russian industrial enterprises in the sphere of nanotechnologies has good prospects, President of Konica-Minolta IJ Technologies Akiyoshi Ono told Itar-Tass in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
With an extensive background in the development of different routes for template assisted assembly of metal nanoparticles on solid supports, the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry (IAC) at the RWTH University of Aachen has recently taken delivery of NanoInk's flagship Dip Pen Nanolithography research platform, the DPN 5000.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
Cedrus Investments Ltd. a boutique investment firm, today announced the formal launch of two global nanotechnology indices - Cedrus Nanotechnology Index - Diversified (CNID) and Cedrus Nanotechnology Index - Pure (CNIP).
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, is pleased to announce new electrochemical capabilities for their NanoWizard AFM systems.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
The assessment panel awarded the prize to Prof. Christoph Cremer for his revolutionary light microscopy technology Vertico SMI. The patented process developed by this researcher from the University of Heidelberg makes it possible to image and analyze cells in two dimensional resolution as low as of 10 nanometers and with a resolution in the third dimension of 40 nanometers.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
Materials characterization company Malvern Instruments and Kaiser Optical Systems, a leading supplier of Raman analyzers and components for spectroscopy, announce a development collaboration that will enhance the product portfolios of both companies.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
Germany's newly formed government will continue to provide broad support for renewable energy sources, according to the coalition agreement.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
SINANO, Suzhou Institute of Nanotech and Nano-bionics of Chinese Academy of Science, China, recently received their new AIXTRON Black Magic CNT tool.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
Researchers from SEMATECH's Front End Processes program have developed a comprehensive transistor noise model capable of extracting defect characteristics from low frequency noise data in advanced gate stack transistors using both conventional and novel dielectrics.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that Sanan OptoElectronics of China has placed multiple tool orders for Veeco's TurboDisc Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Systems to expand their manufacturing capacity of high brightness light emitting diodes.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
A wall of graphene a single nanometer wide could be the difference between an oil well that merely pays for itself and one that returns great profit.
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Posted on: Oct 27th, 2009
INL scientist Peter Kong is putting plasma to work, using it to produce nanoparticles, synthesize materials to store hydrogen and convert heavy hydrocarbons to transportation fuels.
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Posted on: Oct 26th, 2009
An interdisciplinary team of researchers has created a new, ultra-sensitive technique to analyze life-sustaining protein molecules. The technique may profoundly change the methodology of biomolecular studies and chart a new path to effective diagnostics and early treatment of complex diseases.
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Posted on: Oct 26th, 2009
The world's fastest supercomputer, Roadrunner, at Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed its initial 'shakedown' phase doing accelerated petascale computer modeling and simulations of a variety of unclassified, fundamental science projects.
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Posted on: Oct 26th, 2009
Adding potent research firepower and fresh physical perspectives to combat cancer, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has funded the new Center on the Microenvironment and Metastasis, which will be headquartered at Cornell University.
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Posted on: Oct 26th, 2009
Sporian Microsystems, a developer of sensors and sensor systems, has been awarded two contracts from the US Air Force to develop small, modular, field-deployable sensors for use in solid rocket motor health assessment.
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