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09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Success in actualization of missing gap and elucidation of indeterminacy factors.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
At the 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (Valencia, Spain), imec presents several large-area silicon solar cells with a conversion efficiency above 19%.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Early treatment of infection in burns patients is critical. A European consortium has designed a point-of-care instrument that can identify types of bacteria from the tiny amounts of volatile gases they emit.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Vistec Lithography, a leading supplier of advanced electron-beam lithography systems has announced today that the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) in Braga, Portugal has placed an order for Vistec's electron-beam lithography system EBPG5200.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Forscher haben ein Geraet konstruiert das mit echtem Zufall arbeitet. Ihre Apparatur liefert zufaellige Zahlen, die prinzipiell nicht vorhergesagt werden koennen, und zwar mit Hilfe der Quantenphysik.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Molecules can turn sunlight into electricity and can be broken down and quickly reassembled.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
A tiny optical device built into a silicon chip has achieved the slowest light propagation on a chip to date, reducing the speed of light by a factor of 1,200.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
How cool is that - Google marks the discovery of the fullerene 25 years ago today, September 4, 1985, with a special Google logo on its site that includes a C60 structure.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology supports university students to conduct research in an international setting. Their work, travel and housing expenses are funded through INBT with a National Science Foundation's International Research Experience for Students (IRES) program and through a partnership with The Inter-University MircroElectronics Centre (IMEC) in Leuven, Belgium.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
The Institut for Nonmetallic Inorganic Materials develops ceramic foams intended for use as energy-efficient thermal insulations in blast furnaces, as bone substitutes and for the controlled release of active ingredients in medicine.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Nanosys Korea will continue the development of architected materials for electronics manufacturers and support the company's growing Korean and Asian customer base.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Modelling zinc oxide nanoparticle formation could provide new insights into how snowflakes form as well as aiding nanoscale device research, say Chinese scientists.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Glucose meters and the appropriate test strips for diabetics are expensive. This however might change, since scientists at the Institute of Printing Science and Technology (IDD) at TU Darmstadt are working on a sensor making the electronic devices considerably cheaper. The new sensor is not based on silicon as conducting material, but on plastics.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
A network of filamentary conducting paths is behind the transition between insulating and conducting states in complex oxides.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
A UCLA team, led by professor of chemistry and biochemistry Xiangfeng Duan, has developed a new fabrication process for graphene transistors using a nanowire as the self-aligned gate.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
The study 'Nanotechnology in the Food Sector', commissioned by the Swiss Centre for Technology Assessment TA-SWISS, is now available in English. The study provides an overview of nanomaterials already used in the food sector with a focus on the Swiss market and an analysis of the existing legal framework.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
The German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) has recently published three new reports on nanotechnology: a Delphi study on nanotechnology, a report on Perception of Nanotechnology in Internet-based Discussions, and Risk Perception of Nanotechnology - Analysis of Media Coverage.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Applied Materials, Inc. today announced that Shinsung Holdings Corp., a fast-growing manufacturer of high-efficiency solar photovoltaic cells and other high-technology products, has selected Applied's SmartFactory manufacturing automation solution to optimize productivity and drive down costs as they ramp production across all their solar manufacturing operations in Korea.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
A new low-cost etching technique developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory can put a trillion holes in a silicon wafer the size of a compact disc.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
SEMI Europe Grenoble Office announced today that 10 semiconductor equipment and solution providers will present their latest technologies at SEMICON Taiwan, Sept. 8-10, in the French Pavilion.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
A new conceptual model, which was created to learn more about the quantum quirks of high-temperature superconductors and other high-tech materials, has also proven useful in describing the origins of ferromagnetism -- the everyday 'magnetism' of compass needles and refrigerator magnets.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
This is Malvern's fifth Queen's Award and this year recognises the company's continuous development of its market-leading Zetasizer Nano particle characterization systems.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
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09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Following the announcement in June this year of the collaboration between Beneq and ALD NanoSolutions, Beneq is proud to reveal that the first system for Particle ALD will be delivered to the Centre de Recherche Public - Gabriel Lippmann in Luxembourg.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Unlike most biological membranes, polymeric, nanometer-thin membranes are very stable and can withstand considerable pressure. This is an essential requirements for separation processes such as in water purification and desalination. Because their mechanical stability can be combined with flexibility and chemical functionality, polymer nanomembranes are also intensely researchers as materials for ...
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Um potenzielle Risiken fuer den Menschen auszuschliessen, foerdert das Bundesministerium fuer Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) den Forschungsverbund CarboTox fuer drei Jahre mit rund 1,25 Millionen Euro.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
The Technology Strategy Board and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in the UK have jointly allocated up to GBP7m to invest in highly innovative, collaborative research projects looking at the use of novel nanoscale technologies to enable the next generation of solar energy harvesting.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Surrey NanoSystems raises second-round venture capital for silicon-friendly carbon nanotube growth process.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
QB3 biophysicists have traced with unprecedented resolution the paths of cargos moving through the nuclear pore complex (NPC), a selective nanoscale aperture that controls access to the cell's nucleus, and answered several key questions about its function.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Biophysicists in Bochum have discovered a diode for protons: just like the electronic component determines the direction of flow of electric current, the 'proton diode' ensures that protons can only pass through a cell membrane in one direction. Water molecules play an important role here as active components of the diode.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Amtech Systems, Inc., a global supplier of production and automation systems and related supplies for the manufacture of solar cells, semiconductors, and silicon wafers, today announced that its solar subsidiary, Tempress Systems, Inc., has received approximately $37 million in new solar orders for its diffusion processing systems from several new and existing customers in Asia.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
IBM has announced details of the world's fastest computer chip - the microprocessor in a new version of the IBM mainframe that begins shipping to customers on Sept. 10.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Novelda AS, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in nanoscale wireless low-power technology for impulse radar, has been invited by the Norwegian government and Innovation Norway to exhibit at the prestigious EXPO 2010, taking place in Shanghai, China in September 2010.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
SiGen introduces high volume manufacturing kerf free wafering equipment.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Firm taps renowned materials and semiconductor expert to lead new facility for the continued development of architected materials for Asian electronics manufacturers.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
A visionary team of computer scientists and electrical engineers from six universities is proposing to deal with the downside of nanoscale computer components by re-thinking and enhancing the role that software can play in a new class of computing machines that are adaptive and highly energy efficient.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
A new smartphone chip prototype under development at the University of California, San Diego will improve smartphone efficiency by making use of 'dark silicon' - the underused transistors in modern microprocessors.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Mad City Labs Inc., the leading global manufacturer of flexure based nanopositioning systems capable of sub-nanometre positioning resolution has appointed Elliot Scientific as distributor of its products within the UK and Ireland.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Compounds made from renewable materials could be used for gas storage, food technologies.
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have devised a new technique - using a sheet of carbon just one atom thick - to visualize the structure of molecules. The technique, which was used to obtain the first direct images of how water coats surfaces at room temperature, can also be used to image a potentially unlimited number of other molecules, including antibodies and ...
News from A to Z of Nanotechnology
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Progress on controlling the growth and doping of semiconductor nanowires makes these structures promising building blocks for nanoelectronics and nanophotonics.
They are often grown by chemical-vapo...
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
MCA, a global high-tech communications agency, today announced it will be hosting its next online panel discussion in cooperation with SemiNeedle, dubbed the BrightSpots Lithography Forum, which will ...
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Unlike most biological membranes, polymeric, nanometer-thin membranes are very stable and can withstand considerable pressure.
This is an essential requirements for separation processes such as in wa...
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Vistec Lithography, a leading supplier of advanced electron-beam lithography systems has announced today that the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) in Braga, Portugal has placed an...
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Prizmatix Ltd recently released a new Fiber Coupled Ultra High Power LED-520nm (in addition to previously announced Ultra High Power Fiber Coupled LED-420nm); it provides almost x10 increase of power ...
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Applied Materials, Inc., the world's largest equipment supplier to the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry, will highlight its latest technology advances in PV at the 25th European Solar Energy Conferenc...
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Plants are good at doing what scientists and engineers have been struggling to do for decades: converting sunlight into stored energy, and doing so reliably day after day, year after year. Now some MI...
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Early treatment of infection in burns patients is critical. A European consortium
has designed a point-of-care instrument that can identify types of bacteria
from the tiny amounts of volatile ...
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
At the 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (Valencia, Spain),
imec presents several large-area
silicon solar cells with a conversion efficiency above 19%. Two types of cells
...
09/06/2010 06:45 AM
Sir Michael Brinton, the Lord Lieutenant* of Worcestershire, today formally presented the 2010 Queen's Award for Enterprise in Innovation to materials characterization company Malvern Instruments in a...