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Fraunhofer Scientists Develop Nano-Based Touchscreens

Just touching it slightly with the tips of your fingers is enough. You can effortlessly write, navigate, open menu windows or rotate images on touchscreens.

29 Jan 2011

Development of Prototype for Fiber-Based Energy Storage Device Using Zinc Oxide Nanowires

Will we soon be plugging our mobile phone into our t-shirt instead of putting in a battery? This vision is not totally out of reach: the first steps in this direction have already been taken. A team led by Zhong Lin W...

29 Jan 2011

AVX Develops Miniature Multilayer Ceramic Capacitor

AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer of advanced passive components and interconnect solutions, has developed the industry’s smallest multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC).

29 Jan 2011

Vishay Intertechnology Launches New PHP Series of High-Power Thin Film Chip Resistors

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. today introduced the new PHP series of precision high-power thin film chip resistors.

29 Jan 2011

Sofics Partners with ICsense to Create World’s First Integrated ESD and I/O Design Solution

Sofics bvba of Gistel, a leading provider of ESD solutions for ICs, and ICsense of Leuven, a prominent designer of analog, mixed-signal, and high-voltage ICs and turnkey ASICs, today announced that they have partnered to create the world’s first integrated ESD and I/O design solution to allow a stable, fully protected I/O of 3.3V with 1.8V transistors in a TSMC 40nm process.

28 Jan 2011

Philips Launches High Performance Direct Luminaire Featuring MesoOptics Holographic Nanotechnology

Expanding on its commitment to delivering innovative, sustainable new lighting technologies, Philips Ledalite introduces Jump™ - a high performance direct luminaire with LEDs or fluorescent light sources.

28 Jan 2011

Green Earth Energy and Technology Enters Agreement to Distribute Ascent Solar's Thin-Film Modules

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. a developer of flexible thin-film solar modules, announced today that Green Earth Energy and Technology will begin distribution of Ascent Solar's lightweight, flexible, high-power thin-film CIGS modules for building integrated (BIPV), and portable power solutions in Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Germany.

28 Jan 2011

TSMC, Spreadtrum Communications Unveil First 40 nm Baseband Chip

Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. and TSMC today unveiled their achievement on the first commercialized 40nm Time Division - Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) baseband processor.

28 Jan 2011

Research on Development of Graphene Spintronic Devices

A team of physicists has taken a big step toward the development of useful graphene spintronic devices. The physicists, from the City University of Hong Kong and the University of Science and Technology of China, pres...

28 Jan 2011

Iranian Physicists Creates Spintronic Device Using Graphane Nanoribbons

In a development that may revolutionize handheld electronics, flat-panel displays, touch panels, electronic ink, and solar cells, as well as drastically reduce their manufacturing costs, physicists in Iran have created a spintronic device based on "armchair" graphene nanoribbons.

28 Jan 2011

Measuring Van Der Waals Force Helps to Understand Structure of Atoms

Measuring the attractive forces between atoms and surfaces with unprecedented precision, University of Arizona physicists have produced data that could refine our understanding of the structure of atoms and improve nanotechnology.

From Arizona State University 28 Jan 2011

Researchers Use Nanotechnology to Improve Thermoelectric Performance of Bulk Semiconductor

Researchers from Boston College, MIT, Clemson and Virginia have used nanotechnology to achieve a 60-90 percent increase in the thermoelectric figure of merit of p-type half-Heusler, a common bulk semiconductor compound, ...

28 Jan 2011

New Technique Reduces Defects in GaN Thin Films to Create Efficients LEDs

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are an increasingly popular technology for use in energy-efficient lighting. Researchers from North Carolina State University have now developed a new technique that reduces defects in the...

From North Carolina State University 28 Jan 2011

Leica Microsystems Signs Agreement with Digital Surf

Leica Microsystems and Digital Surf announced the signature of an agreement whereby Leica Map surface imaging and metrology software based upon Digital Surf's Mountains Technology® will be used with the Leica Application Suite (LAS) for Leica industrial microscopes.

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 28 Jan 2011

Color Change Experiment Confirms New Method of Energy Harvesting from Sunlight

Professor Richard Watt and his chemistry students suspected that a common protein could potentially react with sunlight and harvest its energy – similar to what chlorophyll does during photosynthesis.

28 Jan 2011