Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
WACKER, the Munich-based chemical company, will be using the 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (EU PVSEC) to present several new products for the solar industry.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
Applied Materials today extended its leadership in pioneering solar wafering technology with its new Applied HCT Diamond Squarer system.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
At its annual solar analyst and press briefing today at the Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (PVSEC), Europe's largest solar tradeshow, Applied Materials executives provided updates on Applied?s solar strategy, including highlights of the company?s business and technology roadmaps for both crystalline silicon and thin-film solar photovoltaics.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
Rice President David Leebron and Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach signed a memorandum of understanding in Edmonton, Alberta, today that will lead to greener energy production through advances in nanotechnology.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
Solar Metrology, a global provider of X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) analysis tools, expands its SMX XRF tool portfolio for film composition and thickness measurement of CIGS photovoltaic depositions with the addition of the System SMX-ISI.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
The systems, two Plasmalab System100 ICP380 tools and a Plasmalab System100 PECVD system, have been bought as part of the Centre's programme to equip their cleanrooms with state of the art instrumentation for nano and micro scale fabrication.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
New data on signalling proteins, called G proteins, may prove important in fighting diseases such as cardiovascular, neurodegenerative disorders, and cancer.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
A new study that provides an overview of research on public perceptions of nanotechnology challenges some current ideas of how people view the risks and benefits of new technology.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
The Nano/Bio Interface Center at the University of Pennsylvania has been awarded $11.5 million from the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers of the National Science Foundation to continue to advance nanoscale research at the interface of physical and biological systems.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
30GB and 62GB small footprint SSD modules enable smaller form factor notebook, mobile and embedded storage systems.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
Arkema, a world leader in nanostructured materials, announces the construction of a carbon nanotube pilot production plant at its Mont site in France.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
Veeco Instruments Inc., a leader in scientific and industrial metrology, today announced the release of its NPFLEX 3D Metrology System for characterizing surfaces previously too difficult to measure due to size or part orientation.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
New research by MIT scientists suggests that carbon nanotubes could be formed into tiny springs capable of storing as much energy, pound for pound, as state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries, and potentially more durably and reliably.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
MIT researchers are trying to not only understand how cancer develops and how it undergoes metastatic spread, but to use our knowledge in new ways to diagnose and treat the disease.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
Arrayit Corporation, a proprietary life sciences and nanotechnology technology company, announces that on September 11th, 2009 Arrayit delivered its proprietary nanotechnology platform to Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
At the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (Hamburg, Germany), IMEC presents a large-area solar with a conversion efficiency of 18.4%.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
Germany's photovoltaic industry is marked by yet another milestone ahead of this year's European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference + Exhibition (EU PVSEC), taking place from September 21 - 25 in Hamburg.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
Researchers have discovered a compact way to produce infrared light, by firing electrons through a miniscule tunnel in a stack of gold and silica layers.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
Etwa 300.000 Mal koennen Forscher mit einem Lichtstrahl Ping-Pong spielen, bevor er sich verliert.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
Beneq, a company providing industrial and R+D equipment and technology for functional coatings, continues its investments in Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) material development.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
The two major energy companies Total and GDF SUEZ and their common solar cells manufacturing subsidiary Photovoltech join the IMEC industrial affiliation program (IIAP) on next generations of crystalline silicon solar cells.
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Posted on: Sep 21st, 2009
At the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (Hamburg, Germany), IMEC presents a mechanically-stacked GaAs/Ge multijunction solar cell.
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Posted on: Sep 20th, 2009
A pair of Case Western Reserve University researchers mixed metals commonly used to grow nanotubes and found that the composition of the catalyst can control the chirality.
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Posted on: Sep 20th, 2009
Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated a new scanning electron microscope capable of selectively imaging single atoms on the top surface of a specimen while a second, simultaneous imaging signal shows atoms throughout the sample's depth.
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Posted on: Sep 19th, 2009
The live demo of the new SOLARIS coating system highlights the system's growing popularity within the PV industry.
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Posted on: Sep 19th, 2009
Halocarbon Products Corporation, a leading worldwide producer of specialty fluorochemicals, has entered into a licensing agreement with IBM to access IBM's industry-leading portfolio of patents related to hexafluoroisopropanol-based photoresists for semiconductor manufacturing.
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Posted on: Sep 18th, 2009
Applied Materials, Inc. announced today a reorganization of certain members of its executive staff, effective immediately.
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Posted on: Sep 18th, 2009
An innovative drug-delivery system - nanoparticles encapsulating nitric oxide or prescription drugs - shows promise for topical treatment of erectile dysfunction
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Posted on: Sep 18th, 2009
Researchers at the Institute for Hygiene and Biotechnology (IHB) at the Hohenstein Institute have successfully devised a special, optimised textile coating that allows adult human stem cells to colonize the surface fibres of textile implants.
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Posted on: Sep 18th, 2009
IBM has successfully developed a prototype of the semiconductor industry's smallest, densest and fastest on-chip dynamic memory device in next-generation, 32-nanometer, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology that can offer improved speed, power savings and reliability for products ranging from servers to consumer electronics.
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