Posted on: Oct 6th, 2009
EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced that it has completed the installation of two automated fusion bonding systems for 300-mm wafers at a leading semiconductor foundry and at a major consumer electronics manufacturer.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
DCG Systems, Inc. today announced an exclusive agreement with Thermosensorik GmbH to develop and market a line of thermal products based upon its Focal Plane Array infrared cameras.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
Electron microscopes cannot be used to image living cells because the electrons destroy the samples. Now, MIT assistant professor Mehmet Fatih Yanik and his student, William Putnam, propose a new scheme that can overcome this limitation by using a quantum mechanical measurement technique that allows electrons to sense objects remotely.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
Using computer simulations, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has identified some of the pathways through which single complementary strands of DNA interact and combine to form the double helix.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
Researchers have discovered that adding tiny bits of silver to the plastic of solar cells boosts the materials' electrical current generation.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
Zygo Corporation and Toho Technology Corporation of Nagoya, Japan today announced a strategic business partnership, pursuant to which Toho will have the exclusive right to ZYGO's technology in the manufacturing and distribution of products to the large substrate Flat Panel Display market.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc. today announced development of a new metamaterial technology that uses fractals to make layered, partless antennas and related electronics.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
Alcoa announced today that Dr. Mohammad A. Zaidi, executive vice president and chief technology officer - Alcoa, will discuss the role of nanotechnology in industry at Rusnanotech '09, second international nanotechnology forum held in Moscow on Oct. 6.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
Submit a poster abstract for the 7th NanoEurope: the extended submission deadline is October 31, 2009.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
A theoretical study predicts the metallization of hydrogen-rich mixtures at significantly lower pressures.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
A UT Dallas researcher envisions a time soon when plastic sheets of solar cells are inexpensively stamped out in factories and then affixed to cell phones, laptops and other power-hungry mobile devices.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
Nano Mask Inc. today announced that it has retained AlvaMed LLC, an FDA consulting firm specializing in medical devices, to prepare the company's latest generation disposable, anti-viral NanoMask for FDA approval.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
When granted, this patent will extend the patent protection of CalciTech's process and product in terms of lifetime and coverage.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
A team of physicists in Sweden and Poland have shown that photons that encode data have strength in numbers.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
INSITE is a framework of design exploration modules that allows fables and fablite companies, foundries and EDA vendors to develop design and product information using emerging IC process technologies 1 to 3 generations ahead of IC manufacturing.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
IMEC has demonstrated a fully solution-processed organic solar cell with a spray-coated active layer and a metal top contact spray-coated on top. The resulting cell shows power conversion efficiencies above 3%, a performance comparable to organic solar cells produced by spin coating of the organic layer and vacuum evaporation of the top contact metal.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
IMEC, one of the leading European research centers in photovoltaics, and BP Solar, a leading energy company, demonstrated a 18% conversion efficiency for silicon solar cells made of BP Solar's newly developed Mono2 silicon.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
A free webinar by WITec on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 will introduce you to the principles of state-of-the-art Confocal Raman Imaging.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
The revolutionary new feature of the Fritsch Pulverisette 7 premium line is the sinking of the grinding bowls into the sun disk of the mill.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
In the battle against resistant microbes, a team at the University of Muenster (Germany) is now pursuing a new approach involving photodynamic therapy, which is a technique that is already being used in the treatment of certain forms of cancer and macular degeneration.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
mPhase Technologies, Inc. today announced that it is developing a new e-commerce website in anticipation of the launch of its first consumer product.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
Ecology Coatings, Inc., a leader in the discovery and development of nanotechnology-enabled, ultraviolet-curable advanced coatings, today announced that it entered into a new financing agreement with Stromback Acquisition Corporation.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
NanoViricides, Inc. announced today that it has completed a number of financing activities.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
Oxonica plc, the UK-based international nanomaterials group, has announced that it has signed an agreement to sell Oxonica Energy Limited to Energenics Holdings Pte Limited on terms whereby there has been a full and final settlement of all legal actions between the Group and Neuftec Limited.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
Owen Camp is looking forward to his participation in the Second Nanotechnology International Forum this week in Moscow.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
At this year's Semicon Europa 2009, FRT again presents innovative wafer metrology solutions for R+D and process control tasks in MEMS, semiconductor, and photovoltaic production.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
CIC biomaGUNE, the Centre for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials, is to lead the European project HINAMOX, an acronym that stands for Health Impact of Engineered Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles: Response, Bioimaging and Distribution at Cellular and Body Level.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
Die Herstellung neuer Nano-Glaskeramiken war das Ziel des vor drei Jahren gestarteten Forschungsprojekts INTERCONY, das von der EU mit insgesamt 1,4 Millionen Euro gefoerdert wurde.
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Posted on: Oct 5th, 2009
European researchers have created a CMOS (semiconductor) camera capable of filming individual photons one million times a second.
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Posted on: Oct 4th, 2009
Researchers have developed a new method for studying bacterial swimming, one that allows them to trap Escherichia coli bacteria and modify the microbes' environment without hindering the way they move.
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