Posted on: Oct 8th, 2009
Silicon, the most important semiconductor material of all, is usually considered to be as brittle and breakable as window glass. On the nanometer scale, however, the substance exhibits very different properties, as Empa researchers have shown by creating minute silicon pillars.
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Posted on: Oct 8th, 2009
Uwe Hartmann, Professor für Experimentalphysik an der Universitaet des Saarlandes, will jetzt den Wirkungsgrad von Solarzellen mit Hilfe der Nanotechnologie steigern. Er erhaelt dafuer rund 500.000 Euro Foerderung im Rahmen eines Verbundprojektes des Bundesministerium fuer Bildung und Forschung.
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Posted on: Oct 8th, 2009
NanoInk announces a new and significant application with excellent potential in biomedical engineering.
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Posted on: Oct 8th, 2009
National Physical Laboratory scientists are paving the way for highly accurate measurement at the nano-scale and beyond, by being the first team in the world to develop a tiny microwave-powered room-temperature fridge.
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Posted on: Oct 8th, 2009
The National Physical Laboratory, the UK’s National Measurement Institute, is developing equipment and techniques to support the growing use of organic electronics.
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Posted on: Oct 8th, 2009
NanoKTN seeks market input to ensure major sector growth over next 10 years.
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Posted on: Oct 8th, 2009
UMC, a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced that its Singapore-based Fab 12i has begun an aggressive expansion project to increase capacity and enable the 300mm fab for 45/40nm production.
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Posted on: Oct 8th, 2009
Ramakrishnan is a long-term user of the Swiss Light Source SLS at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland. He used this facility for his prize winning studies on the structure of the ribosome.
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Posted on: Oct 8th, 2009
ARM announced at the IEEE SOI Conference, Foster City, Calif., the results from a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) 45nm test chip that demonstrate potential power savings of up to 40 percent over traditional bulk process for manufacturing chips.
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Posted on: Oct 8th, 2009
Both institutes will together make great efforts in promoting joint research and developments in energy technology and nanotechnology.
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Posted on: Oct 8th, 2009
Renowned scientist and inventor Larry Fullerton applies signal correlation methods and coding theory to magnetism to precisely control magnetic fields. Coded magnetic structures correlate to produce stronger bonding force, programmable precision alignment, and deterministic magnetic field interaction that promise to accelerate product performance and innovation.
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Posted on: Oct 8th, 2009
All three recipients of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry published papers on their award-winning work based on data collected at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory
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Posted on: Oct 8th, 2009
KSK Surya Photovoltaic Venture, a leading independent power provider in India, announced today that it has signed a contract with Applied Materials, Inc. to purchase two Applied SunFab Thin Film Lines for manufacturing high-power output 5.7m2 solar panels.
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Posted on: Oct 8th, 2009
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 awards studies of one of life's core processes: the ribosome's translation of DNA information into life.
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Posted on: Oct 8th, 2009
Researchers have performed a series of experiments that show just how classical chaos spills over into the quantum world.
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Posted on: Oct 8th, 2009
NanoSight, manufacturers of unique nanoparticle characterization technology, is pleased to report that the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham is using multiple NanoSight nanoparticle characterization systems to study viruses and catalyst nanoparticles.
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Posted on: Oct 8th, 2009
NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm, will be presenting a webinar on OLED lighting market opportunities on the morning of Thursday, October 22nd, 2009.
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Posted on: Oct 8th, 2009
MEMSCAP, the leading provider of innovative solutions based on MEMS technology, announces today it has won the SEMICON MicroNanoSystems Innovation Award for the year 2009
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Posted on: Oct 7th, 2009
Australian scientists have found that the bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans catalyses the biomineralisation of gold by transforming toxic gold compounds to their metallic form using active cellular mechanism.
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Posted on: Oct 7th, 2009
After a thorough evaluation of competitive tools, a major microelectronics company has selected the MultiProbe AFP to help it stay competitive in an industry whose key players are jockeying for the lead in delivering smaller, faster devices.
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Posted on: Oct 7th, 2009
Electron microscopy and analysis instruments from Carl Zeiss are redefining the science of brain mapping and 3-D reconstruction.
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Posted on: Oct 7th, 2009
Errki Ruoslahti, professor at UC Santa Barbara's Burnham Institute for Medical Research, is the recipient of a $2.8 million award from the Department of Defense for research into detection and therapies for breast cancer using nanotechnology.
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Posted on: Oct 7th, 2009
Researchers are developing a new type of rocket propellant made of a frozen mixture of water and nanoscale aluminum powder that is more environmentally friendly than conventional propellants and could be manufactured on the moon, Mars and other water-bearing bodies.
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Posted on: Oct 7th, 2009
Advantest Corporation today announced that it has received the prestigious Shokumon Prize, which the University of Tokyo awards annually to individuals or corporations which have made outstanding educational contributions.
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Posted on: Oct 7th, 2009
The repair of damaged nerve cells is a major problem in medicine today. A new study by researchers at the Montreal NeurologicaI Institute and Hospital (The Neuro) and McGill University, is a significant advance towards a solution for neuronal repair.
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Posted on: Oct 7th, 2009
Japanese researchers have developed a new method that is simple and delivers stable nanowires: They deposit metal atoms inside of carbon nanotubes.
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Posted on: Oct 7th, 2009
mPhase will continue to develop the Smart NanoBattery under this grant program through September 2010.
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Posted on: Oct 7th, 2009
Nanogate, a leading international enabler in nanotechnology, has achieved further successes in the development and marketing of its cutting-edge DotfarmOptics technology: with an additional European application patent, comprehensive protection is guaranteed for Nanogate's technology for LED applications.
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Posted on: Oct 7th, 2009
The Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT today announced it is awarding $600,000 in grants to eight MIT research teams currently working on early-stage technologies.
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Posted on: Oct 7th, 2009
The Russian Corporation for Nanotechnologies and Sberbank signed the agreement aimed at coordinating the efforts for ensuring development of innovation infrastructure in the Russian Federation in the field of nanotechnologies, implementation of national projects for creating promising nanotechnologies and nanoindustry.
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