Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH has received a license from the University of California for the commercialization of 'superresolution', a microscopy technique offering extraordinarily high resolution.
Oct 17th, 2009
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It may look like little more than fishing line, but thin, tough and flexible plastic optical fibre promises to revolutionise high-speed, last-mile communications networks, enable new sensing devices and even add sparkle to clothing. Its evolution is being aided by groundbreaking research in Europe.
Oct 16th, 2009
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Leti, a leading global research center committed to creating and commercializing innovation in micro- and nanotechnologies, today presented results at the SOI Industry Consortium workshop in Leuven, Belgium, that prove SOI-based planar CMOS meets requirements for low-power, 22nm node devices, offering a practical route to further feature shrink and enabling a significant jump for 'green' products.
Oct 16th, 2009
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The EU executive plans to respond positively to the European Parliament's call for a number of EU policies and regulations covering health and environmental safety issues related to nanomaterials to be reviewed.
Oct 16th, 2009
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Astrophysicists at RIKEN lend their expertise to biologists to develop one of the world's fastest and most sensitive cameras to observe cell behavior at the nanometer scale.
Oct 16th, 2009
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Contrary to expectations, structurally different molecules can display different solvent properties at an interface between air and water, researchers in Japan have discovered.
Oct 16th, 2009
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Key Laboratory of Quantum Information (CAS), University of Science and Technology of China has recently demonstrated a metropolitan Quantum Cryptography Network (QCN) for Government Administration in Wuhu, China.
Oct 16th, 2009
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MIT physicist Pablo Jarillo-Herrero has won a 2009 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, an award he will use to study a new class of materials that could have applications in the semiconductor industry and quantum computing.
Oct 16th, 2009
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UCL researchers are helping to unlock the secrets of a material that could ultimately be used in a new generation of electronic devices.
Oct 16th, 2009
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Physicists at Yale University have made the first definitive measurements of 'persistent current', a small but perpetual electric current that flows naturally through tiny rings of metal wire even without an external power source.
Oct 16th, 2009
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A team of European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications and computing in which electronic and optical signals can be handled simultaneously.
Oct 16th, 2009
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A group of scientists could show that the optical near-field can be used as actuator and sensitive probe for nanomechanical oscillators.
Oct 16th, 2009
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Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have conducted a basic chemistry experiment in what is perhaps the world's smallest test tube.
Oct 15th, 2009
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Researchers at Ohio State University have discovered a way to make quantum devices using technology common to the chip-making industry today.
Oct 15th, 2009
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Auf der Messe Parts2Clean in Stuttgart zeigen Fraunhofer-Wissenschaftler vom 20. bis 22. Oktober 2009 (Halle 1/Stand F 610/G 709), wie mithilfe einer unsichtbaren Nanoschicht Fingerabdruecke auf Metall- oder Kunststoffoberflaechen unsichtbar werden.
Oct 15th, 2009
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Compared to the present standard, with the new system more than the half of the energy can be saved for the OLED-display-operation.
Oct 15th, 2009
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