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Microvisk's Third Funding Round for MEMS Technology is Oversubscribed

Microvisk Technologies, the developer of a handheld system to monitor the blood clotting status of patients taking the drug Warfarin, has raised £6 million through a rights issue to existing investors in an oversub...

26 Jan 2011

STMicroelectronics Holds Top Position in MEMS Consumer Market

STMicroelectronics confirms its top position in MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) devices for consumer and portable applications, according to market analyst iSuppli.

From STMicroelectronics 25 Jan 2011

Rambus Buys Lighting and Display Patents from Imagine Designs

Rambus Inc. one of the world's premier technology licensing companies, today announced it has acquired the lighting and display portfolio of patents and technology from privately held Imagine Designs Inc.

25 Jan 2011

Nanocamp Gives Potential Students the Chance to Learn Wonders of Nanoscience

Twelve leading secondary school science pupils spent last week at the Manawatu campus learning the wonders of nanoscience during Nanocamp.

25 Jan 2011

Targray Partners with Vorbeck Materials to Launch New Graphene Technology

Targray Technology International announces that it has partnered with Vorbeck Materials Corp. to introduce a new and disruptive graphene technology for manufacturers of Li-ion battery cells.

From Vorbeck Materials 25 Jan 2011

Entegris Launches Ultrapak 100 mm Thin Wafer Shipper

Entegris, Inc. introduced a wafer shipper that specifically meets the critical handling needs of thin silicon (Si) and compound semiconductor wafers.

From Entegris 25 Jan 2011

GRIN Plasmonics Technique Provides Practical Way for Routing Light at Nanoscale Level

They said it could be done and now they've done it. What's more, they did it with a GRIN.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 25 Jan 2011

New Breast On-a-Chip Model to Test Nanomedical Approaches for Cancer Treatment

Purdue University researchers have reproduced portions of the female breast in a tiny slide-sized model dubbed "breast on-a-chip" that will be used to test nanomedical approaches for the detection and treatment of breast cancer.

25 Jan 2011

Scientists' New Work on Organic Molecules Help to Refine Atmospheric Weather

The fresh scent of pine has helped atmospheric scientists find missing sources of organic molecules in the air -- which, it could well turn out, aren't missing after all. In work appearing in this week's Proce...

25 Jan 2011

Researchers Study Single-Molecule Interactions Using Nanoscale Transistors

An interdisciplinary team from Columbia University that includes electrical engineers from Columbia's Engineering School, together with researchers from the University's departments of Physics and Chemistry, has ...

25 Jan 2011

ASU Researchers Develop New Microscopy Technique to Explore Single Cells

Despite the sophistication and range of contemporary microscopy techniques, many important biological phenomena still elude the precision of even the most sensitive tools.

From Arizona State University 25 Jan 2011

Advance in Nanostructured Materials for Electronic Packaging Applications

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, and researchers from Stanford University have developed a novel combination of elements that yields a unique nanostructure material for packaging.

25 Jan 2011

New Report on ADXL278 MEMS Accelerometer Reverse Costing

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Analog Devices ADXL278 MEMS accelerometer Reverse Costing" report to their offering. Physical Analysis of the Device - Step by Step Reconstruction of the Proces...

25 Jan 2011

Cadence Develops New 32, 28-nm Design-for-Manufacturing Flow Along with STARC

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. a leader in global electronic design innovation, today announced that it has teamed with the Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (STARC), a Japanese design consortium, and created an innovative new Cadence®-based 32/28-nanometer design-for-manufacturing (DFM) flow.

From Cadence Design Systems 25 Jan 2011

Altera Announces Portfolio of 28 nm Devices

Delivering the industry's most comprehensive set of device options tailored to customers' diverse design requirements, Altera Corporation today announced its portfolio of 28-nm devices.

25 Jan 2011