Posted on: Sep 1st, 2009
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Quantenoptik scientists achieve high precision optical broadband spectroscopy by applying frequency comb technique to tunable diode lasers.
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Posted on: Sep 1st, 2009
Micralyne, a world-leading MEMS product developer and manufacturer, today announced it will be giving Alberta's nanotechnology industry a 'step up' by the end of August with the installation of a unique precision tool in its Edmonton facility.
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Posted on: Sep 1st, 2009
SUSS MicroTec, a leading supplier of process and test solutions for semiconductor industry and related markets, announces the release of the probe station PA300PS 3D geared for 300mm electrical probing of 3D stacked structures on wafer level and targeted at the market for 3D integration.
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Posted on: Sep 1st, 2009
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) authorized the University of Science and Technology of China to build the Research and Demonstration Center for Integrated Utilization of Solar Energy in Hefei, Anhui province.
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Posted on: Aug 31st, 2009
Superfast quantum computer getting closer Researchers of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at the TU Delft have succeeded in getting a grip on the environment of a quantum particle, thereby increasing the control over single electrons.
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Posted on: Aug 31st, 2009
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Rutgers University two grants worth $6.4 million to fund graduate research in clean and sustainable energy resources using biotechnology and nanotechnology.
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Posted on: Aug 31st, 2009
A Victoria University scientist has won a prestigious innovation award for turning pure New Zealand Merino wool into gold.
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Posted on: Aug 31st, 2009
Metallofullerenes are capable of forming ordered supramolecular structures with different orientations. By specifically manipulating these orientations it might be possible to store and subsequently read out information.
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Posted on: Aug 31st, 2009
Researchers have demonstrated a new method for fabricating silk-based optical waveguides that are biocompatible, biodegradable and can be readily functionalized with active molecules.
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Posted on: Aug 31st, 2009
Rice scientists have created a video of bending and flexing carbon nanotubes to show once-undetectable characteristics that may someday be tuned for medical and industrial use.
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Posted on: Aug 31st, 2009
Nanoparticles combining platinum and gold act as superefficient catalysts, but chemists have struggled to create them in an industrially useful form. Rice University chemists have answered the call this week with a polymer-coated version of gold-platinum nanorods, the first catalysts of their kind that can be used in the organic solvents favored by chemical and drug manufacturers.
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Posted on: Aug 31st, 2009
The purpose of the OECD Series on the Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials is to provide up-to-date information on the diverse activities at OECD related to human health and environmental safety. The latest publications are available for download .
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Posted on: Aug 31st, 2009
In time for the 2009 Microscopy Conference in Graz, Austria, Carl Zeiss is presenting an integrated solution for correlative microscopy in materials analysis.
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Posted on: Aug 31st, 2009
The National Science Foundation has awarded Clemson University researchers $2 million to study ways to mimic the suction mechanism used by butterflies and moths to feed so that the same method can be used in medical diagnostics.
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Posted on: Aug 31st, 2009
Nanometrics Incorporated, a leading supplier of advanced process control metrology systems used primarily in the manufacturing and packaging of semiconductors, solar photovoltaics and high-brightness LEDs, today announced that Vincent Coates, company founder and vice-chairman of the board, has resigned from the Board of Directors.
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Posted on: Aug 31st, 2009
With more than 20 years of research and teaching experience, Professor Holz will also develop NanoChemistry chapters of the NanoProfessor Program curriculum. The NanoProfessor Program aims to advance the field of nanoscience at the high school and university level, and address the need for a skilled workforce of nanotechnologists within various fields of science.
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Posted on: Aug 31st, 2009
Was Silizium fuer die Entwickler von Computerchips, ist fuer Laserphysiker eine Substanz namens Lithiumniobat. Diese Stellung verdanken die durchsichtigen Kristalle vor allem einer schoenen Eigenschaft: Sie koennen die Farbe von Laserlicht veraendern. Dazu muessen sie allerdings ausreichend sauber sein. Und diese Reinigung war bislang ein schwieriges und teures Unterfangen. Forscher um den Bonner Physiker Professor Dr. Karsten Buse konnten freien Elektronen nun mit einem Besen aus Licht aus dem Kristall kehren.
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Posted on: Aug 31st, 2009
SEMATECH, a global consortium of chipmakers, and Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd., one of the world's largest suppliers of semiconductor materials, announced today that Shin-Etsu has joined SEMATECH's Resist Materials and Development Center at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering's Albany NanoTech Complex.
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Posted on: Aug 31st, 2009
Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a leader in global electronic design innovation, and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc., a leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing company, today announced that the two companies have entered into a multi-year software and services agreement for advanced semiconductor design.
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Posted on: Aug 31st, 2009
Pat Thiel, senior chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy?s Ames Laboratory, has been named the winner of the 2010 Arthur W. Adamson Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Surface Chemistry.
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Posted on: Aug 31st, 2009
The Human Enhancement Ethics Group today released a new report funded by the US National Science Foundation, addressing such topics as: definitions, possible scenarios, freedom and autonomy, fairness and equity, societal disruptions, human dignity, rights and obligations, and policy and law.
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Posted on: Aug 30th, 2009
Scientists have developed a new molecular sensor that can reveal the amount of zinc in cells, which could tell us more about a number of diseases, including type 2 diabetes.
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Posted on: Aug 30th, 2009
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have reached a new milestone in laser physics by creating the world's smallest semiconductor laser, capable of generating visible light in a space smaller than a single protein molecule.
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Posted on: Aug 30th, 2009
The panel is being convened as a result of discussions at a March meeting of the ANSI- NSP, where members identified nanomedicine as an industry sector where the U.S. should take the lead in development of nanotechnology standards.
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Posted on: Aug 30th, 2009
Specialists in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology have a new high quality resource at their fingertips courtesy of the online publication of the first articles for new journal Nanoscale.
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Posted on: Aug 30th, 2009
Researchers have achieved the highest efficiency for solar power, setting a new world record of 43 per cent of sunlight converted into electricity.
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Posted on: Aug 30th, 2009
The second, completely revised and enlarged edition of What is What in the Nanoworld summarizes the terms and definitions, most important phenomena, and regulations occurring in the physics, chemistry, technology, and application of nanostructures.
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Posted on: Aug 29th, 2009
'10 ways to control rheology by changing particle properties' is the latest addition to Malvern Instruments' INFORM series of white papers, which are designed to provide advice on material characterization issues.
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Posted on: Aug 29th, 2009
This October, the Organic Photovoltaic industry's leading experts unite in one spectacular educational program--offered exclusively at the 1st annual Organic Photovoltaics Summit USA.
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Posted on: Aug 29th, 2009
Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc., the pioneering innovator of fractal antenna and fractal electronics technology, today announced that it has filed for patent protection on a system for making a wideband invisibility cloak turn on and off.
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