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Europa forscht an Halbleiterscheiben mit 450 mm Durchmesser
27 europaeische Unternehmen und institutionelle Forschungseinrichtungen aus den Branchen Halbleiterindustrie, Geraete- und Materialhersteller haben sich zum Verbundprojekt EEMI450 (European Equipment and Materials Initiative for 450 mm) zusammengeschlossen, mit dem Ziel, 450 mm-Technologie und Know-how fuer den Standort Europa zu sichern.
Posted: Sep 28th, 2010
Read moreMaking music on a microscopic scale
Strings a fraction of the thickness of a human hair, with microscopic weights to pluck them: researchers and students from the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology of the University of Twente in The Netherlands have succeeded in constructing the first musical instrument with dimensions measured in mere micrometres - a 'micronium' - that produces audible tones.
Posted: Sep 28th, 2010
Read moreSingaporean platform for harnessing collaborative research, innovation and enterprise strategies
With the Singapore Government injecting S$16.1 billion on Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) from 2011 to 2015, the entire RIE ecosystem has been set abuzz. Singapore's long-term goal is to be among the most research-intensive, innovative and entrepreneurial economies in the world to generate high value jobs and prosperity for Singaporeans.
Posted: Sep 28th, 2010
Read moreNIH/FDA research in regulatory science includes nanoparticle characterization
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will award $9.4 million over three years to support four research projects in regulatory science. The projects include research on nanoparticles and their characterization.
Posted: Sep 28th, 2010
Read moreNew nanotechnology approach promises better catalytic converter
Control over material properties would reduce the amount of platinum needed.
Posted: Sep 27th, 2010
Read moreSemiconductor could turn heat into computing power
Computers might one day recycle part of their own waste heat, using a material being studied by researchers at Ohio State University. The material is a semiconductor called gallium manganese arsenide. The researchers describe the detection of an effect that converts heat into a quantum mechanical phenomenon - known as spin - in a semiconductor.
Posted: Sep 27th, 2010
Read moreSolar cells thinner than wavelengths of light hold huge power potential
Ultra-thin solar cells can absorb sunlight more efficiently than the thicker, more expensive-to-make silicon cells used today, because light behaves differently at scales around a nanometer (a billionth of a meter), say Stanford engineers. They calculate that by properly configuring the thicknesses of several thin layers of films, an organic polymer thin film could absorb as much as 10 times more energy from sunlight than was thought possible.
Posted: Sep 27th, 2010
Read moreNanoneedle delivers quantum dots to cell nucleus
Getting an inside look at the center of a cell can be as easy as a needle prick, thanks to University of Illinois researchers who have developed a tiny needle to deliver a shot right to a cell's nucleus.
Posted: Sep 27th, 2010
Read moreNCI awards $13.6 million to UNC's Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence
Grant will support the continued work of the center launched in 2005 as part of NC's Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer.
Posted: Sep 27th, 2010
Read moreEurope's central meeting of experts for nanomedicine
The 5th General Assembly and Annual Forum of the European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine will take place at Centro Congressi Fondazione Cariplo in Milan, Italy on 14 and 15 October 2010.
Posted: Sep 27th, 2010
Read moreSingle electron reader opens path for quantum computing
A team led by engineers and physicists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia, have developed one of the key building blocks needed to make a quantum computer using silicon: a 'single electron reader'.
Posted: Sep 27th, 2010
Read moreRethinking renewables: A new approach to energy storage for wind and solar
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers win $2 million NSF grant to develop capacitive energy storage system for renewable power source.
Posted: Sep 27th, 2010
Read moreNanobiotechnology experts join forces to improve Tubercolosis testing
Two UK companies have been awarded joint funding for a research project that could see significant advances in the quest to aid detection and eradication of Tuberculosis (TB), across the world.
Posted: Sep 27th, 2010
Read moreDetector for the single-electron magnet discovered - pathway to the silicon-based quantum computer
Researchers from University of New South Wales (Australia), University of Melbourne (Australia), and Aalto University (Finland) have succeeded in demonstrating a high-fidelity detection scheme for the magnetic state of a single electron, that is, the spin.
Posted: Sep 27th, 2010
Read moreCentre for Food Safety conducts risk study on nanotechnology in food
The study aimed to review the basic principles, application and the potential health implications associated with the use of nanotechnology in the food sector, particularly on food and food contact materials incorporated with nanomaterials.
Posted: Sep 27th, 2010
Read moreQuantum physics: Flavors of entanglement
The entanglement of quantum objects can take surprising forms. Quantum physicists at the University of Innsbruck have investigated several flavors of entanglement in four trapped ions.
Posted: Sep 27th, 2010
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