STMicroelectronics has unveiled an ultra-compact multi-sensor MEMS module equipped with programmable motion-recognition capabilities called the LSM330.
Thomas Swan & Co. Ltd. announced today that it has appointed Dr Andy Goodwin as Commercial Director for its Advanced Materials Division. Dr Goodwin will join Thomas Swan on 20th August this year and will be based at ...
The Queensland Government has granted a research funding worth $1 million to the Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre of the Griffith University to devise manufacturing techniques for a silicon carbide microchip.
By Will Soutter
17 Jul 2012
Visiongain, the London based independent media company, has presented its analysis of the Mobile MEMS market in the report, “The Mobile Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) Market 2012-2017: Smartphones, Tablets, Netbooks, E-readers, Ultrabooks.”
By Dr. Cameron Chai
17 Jul 2012
Researchers at Columbia Engineering have discovered the optical nonlinear property of graphene that could pave the way for low-power telecommunication devices. Silicon-based photonic circuits are passive systems.
By G.P. Thomas
17 Jul 2012
Yale researchers have developed an anti-cancer drug delivery technique that addresses the challenges in combinatorial drug therapy.
By Will Soutter
17 Jul 2012
A German-made 800 MHz, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer was delivered at the Texas A&M University. After being flown in on a cargo plane, the US $2.7 million instrument was set up at the university by using a crane to lower it down on an opening in the roof of a building of the biochemistry and biophysics department.
By Will Soutter
17 Jul 2012
Research and Markets has included a new research report titled ‘Thin-Film and Printed Battery Markets - 2012’ to its catalogue.
Graphene Laboratories, Inc. has made several new developments this summer, demonstrating their continued success in the commercialization of graphene materials. Most notably, their production capabilities are up with exp...
A research group of John Fourkas, a Chemistry Professor from the University of Maryland, has created innovative materials and nanofabrication techniques to produce miniaturized components essential for sensors, medical diagnostics and other applications.
By Will Soutter
16 Jul 2012
Researchers at North Carolina State University, led by assistant professor, Dr. Yong Zhu, have employed silver nanowires to produce elastic conductors with high conductivity.
NanoSteel, the provider of nano-structured steel designs, has bagged the R&D 100 Award for the development of a new nano-structured powder metal alloy for use in large-scale manufacture of industrial components. This award is the fifth such R&D award for NanoSteel. Dubbed as the “Oscars of Innovation”, The R&D 100 Awards is into its 50th year of recognizing and honoring the most technologically noteworthy products developed and launched in a given year.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
16 Jul 2012
Researchers at Rice University have carried out a study to highlight the similarities in plasmonics and polymer behavior that could pave the way for building smaller and better computing systems and antennae.
By Will Soutter
16 Jul 2012
A research team comprising Drs. Takaaki Mano, Yoshiki Sakuma and Masafumi Jo from the Photonic Materials Unit of the National Institute for Materials Science is involved in the development of a sophisticated self-assembling technology known as droplet epitaxy for semiconductor quantum dots.
The Paris-Est Créteil University in France hosted the Conference on Multiphase Polymers and Polymer Composites Systems: Macro to Nano Scales on June 7-10, 2011.
By Will Soutter
16 Jul 2012