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Cadence's Encounter Digital Implementation System Honored by Electronic Design

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. a global leader in electronic design innovation, is pleased to announce that it has won Electronic Design's Best Electronic Design award for 2010 for the Cadence® Encounter® Digital Implementation (EDI) System 9.1 in the EDA - Design, Verification and Implementation Environment category. This product is highlighted in Electronic Design's Dec. 9, 2010 issue.

From Cadence Design Systems 16 Dec 2010

Georgia Scientists Create Nano-Based Platform to Diagnose Common Type of Pneumonia

University of Georgia researchers have developed a technique that can diagnose a common type of pneumonia within minutes, potentially replacing existing tests that can take several days for results. The researchers, ...

16 Dec 2010

Researchers Discover Technique to Develop Nanoparticles with Tunable Properties

A new study from researchers at North Carolina State University sheds light on how a technique that is commonly used for making single-metal nanoparticles can be extended to create nanoparticles consisting of two metals ...

From North Carolina State University 16 Dec 2010

Illinois Scientists Create Tiny Catalysts Using Iron Nanoparticles

Fortified with iron: It's not just for breakfast cereal anymore. University of Illinois researchers have demonstrated a simpler method of adding iron to tiny carbon spheres to create catalytic materials that have the potential to remove contaminants from gas or liquid.

From University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 16 Dec 2010

Scientists Determine That Earthworms Can Absorb Copper Nanoparticles in Soil

The manufacturing of nanomaterials has been steadily on the rise in the medical, industrial, and scientific fields. Nanomaterials are materials that are engineered to have dimensions less than 100 nanometers and have ...

16 Dec 2010

Göttingen Facility to Receive €23 Million for Brain Research at Nanometer Range

After two successful funding periods, the DFG Research Centre “Molecular Physiology of the Brain” (CMPB) at the University of Göttingen has been extended and will now receive funding for a further four years.

16 Dec 2010

Biomagnetics Diagnostics Meets Integrated Optical Biosensor Building Team for New Product Development

Biomagnetics Diagnostics Corp., a developer of revolutionary diagnostic systems and technology for HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis, Cholera and malaria detection, and other innovative technologies, today announced CEO Clayton Hardman attended a series of meetings on the important topic of diagnosing and managing tuberculosis ("TB") with industry leaders from the Centers for Disease Control, the Foundation for New Innovative Diagnostics ("FIND"), the World Health Organization and the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and others, at a Symposium hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory.

16 Dec 2010

Smokefree Innotec to Supply Nano-Based Nicotine Filters to Distributors

Smokefree Innotec, Inc. an established international distributor of e-cigarettes announced today through its President and CEO Thomas Schroepfer, that "the Company is receiving offers from distributors in the U.S. market for its for nicotine and non-nicotine products, on the heels of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit affirming a lower court's decision that the FDA was wrong when it blocked a shipment of e-cigarettes from entering the U.S. in 2009; rather, they are to be regulated simply as tobacco products.

16 Dec 2010

Abound Solar to Establish Thin-Film Solar Module Manufacturing Plant in Indiana

Abound Solar, a manufacturer of next-generation, cadmium telluride, thin-film photovoltaic solar modules, today announced that it has leased a 781,750 square foot facility in Tipton, Ind., where it will be establishing a solar module manufacturing plant.

16 Dec 2010

SWeNT Receive EPA Approval to Manufacture Carbon Nanotubes for Commercial Applications

SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Inc. (SWeNT), the world leader in high quality carbon nanotubes (CNT), has received an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) consent order which will permit SWeNT to manufacture and distribute...

15 Dec 2010

NIST Announces $22 Million in Funding for Advanced Manufacturing Research in Electronics, Biotechnology and Nanotechnology

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced a total of more than $22 million in funding for nine research projects targeting innovative manufacturing technolog...

15 Dec 2010

Broadcom Unveils SoC Designed Using 40 nm CMOS Technology

Broadcom Corporation a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced and is sampling a new ultra-high performance dual high definition (HD) set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) video gateway solution with more than two times the performance over previous generations.

15 Dec 2010

LDK Solar to Supply Solar Wafer and Polysilicon to Shanxi Lu'an Photovoltaic Technology

LDK Solar Co., Ltd. ("LDK Solar") a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers and PV products, today announced that the Company has entered into a multi-year wafer and polysilicon supply contract with Shanxi Lu'an Photovoltaic Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Lu'an Group, a leading Chinese energy enterprise.

15 Dec 2010

AIXTRON Wins New Order for MOCVD Reactor from APOLLO Precision

AIXTRON AG announced today a new order for an MOCVD reactor from new customer APOLLO Precision. The order comprises one CRIUS 31x2-inch configuration deposition system.

From AIXTRON SE 15 Dec 2010

Toshiba Develops New SSDs Using 32 nm Enterprise NAND Flash Memory

Extending its position in the enterprise storage market, Toshiba Storage Device Division announces its new family of enterprise-class solid state drives (SSDs).

15 Dec 2010