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SAFC Hitech Reinforces Commitment to the Asia-Pacific Electronics Markets

Following the March 2010 production expansion of trimethylgallium (TMG) at its Bromborough, UK manufacturing site, SAFC Hitech(R), a member of the Sigma-Aldrich(R) Group, reinforced its commitment to the Asia-Pacific ele...

2 Dec 2010

Science-Metrix Releases Multi-Lingual Tools to Understand Science Researches

A new set of tools released today by Science-Metrix Inc. seeks to improve the way we talk about and understand science – from the classroom to the boardroom. The US/Canada-based research evaluation firm has deve...

2 Dec 2010

Houston University Graduate Students to Present at TcSUH's Student Symposium

A high school math teacher in India sparked Debtanu De's interest in physics. Ibrahim Kesgin was inspired by his father to pursue an undergraduate, then graduate degree in mechanical engineering. Melissa Gooch&#39...

2 Dec 2010

Aphios Secures NIA SBIR Grant to Develop Nanodrug for Alzheimer’s Disease

Aphios® Corporation today announced that it was awarded Phase I of a Fast Track SBIR grant from the National Institute of Aging (NIA), National Institutes of Health (NIH) for Developing a Novel Alzheimer´s Disease Nanodrug.

From Aphios Corporation 2 Dec 2010

Thin-Film Solar Producer Implements Camstar’s SolarSuite Platform for Product Quality

Camstar Systems, Inc. announced today that MiaSole, the leading manufacturer of Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic solar panels, has deployed Camstar’s SolarSuite™ enterprise software platform throughout its entire Solar manufacturing value chain.

2 Dec 2010

Tegal to Launch ProNova2 ICP Reactor for MEMS Applications at 2010 SEMICON Japan

This week at SEMICON Japan, Tegal Corporation : an innovator of specialized production solutions for the fabrication of advanced MEMS, power ICs and 3D ICs, will launch the newest member of its popular ProNovaTM family of high-density inductively coupled plasma (ICP) reactors for the company´s DRIE series wafer processing products.

From Collabrx, Inc. 2 Dec 2010

X-BODY Biosciences Introduces Protein Chain Reaction Antibody Discovery Platform

X-BODY Biosciences, a developer of monoclonal antibody therapeutics, today announced the launch of its Protein Chain Reaction(TM) antibody discovery platform. The company will give its first public presentations at IB...

2 Dec 2010

Samsung Starts Sampling of 4Gb LPDDR2 DRAM Using 30nm-Class Technology

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a global leader in advanced semiconductor technology solutions, announced today that it has developed and started sampling the industry’s first monolithic four gigabit (Gb), low power double-data-rate 2 (LPDDR2) DRAM using 30 nanometer (nm) class technology in November.

From Samsung Electronics 2 Dec 2010

Scientists Discover That Grinding of New Compound Creates Cubic Molecular Structures

During the normal grinding of powders in a mortar, the powders can enter into chemical reactions with each other. This phenomenon has been known for years but only now it has become possible to transform in this way three-dimensional clusters of certain chemical compounds into other, also three-dimensional, clusters.

2 Dec 2010

New Nano-Based Diagnostic Platform for Fast Sepsis Treatment

Blood poisoning can be fatal. If you suffer from sepsis, you used to have to wait as much as 48 hours for laboratory findings. A new diagnostic platform as big as a credit card will now supply the analysis after as little as an hour. This system is based on nanoparticles that are automatically guided by magnetic forces.

2 Dec 2010

Argonne Researchers Get 65 Million Hours of Computing Time on Supercomputer

Four researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory lead projects that have been awarded a total of 65 million hours of computing time on Argonne's energy-efficient Blue Gene/P (...

From Argonne National Laboratory 2 Dec 2010

Bruker Releases New Generation Atomic Force Microscopy at MRS Fall 2010 Meeting

Bruker Corporation announced today at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall 2010 Meeting the release of a new generation of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) modes and measurement modules that transform Bruker´s AFM systems into turnkey solutions for nanoscale characterization in renewable energy research.

2 Dec 2010

LSI Introduces TrueStore 40-nm Read Channel with LDPC Iterative Decoding Technology

LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced the TrueStore® RC9700, a second-generation 40-nanometer (nm) read channel featuring low-density parity check (LDPC) iterative decoding technology. Now sampling to hard d...

2 Dec 2010

Soitec and Sumitomo Electric Join to Develop Gallium Nitride Substrates for LEDs

Soitec, the world's leading supplier of engineered substrates and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., a leading worldwide provider of compound semiconductor materials, announced today they are working together to dev...

2 Dec 2010

New Sensor to Detect Multiple Biological and Chemical Threats

A new class of sensors able to detect multiple biological and chemical threats simultaneously with unprecedented performance may soon be within reach thanks to the establishment of a multi-million dollar research center led by Georgia Institute of Technology engineers.

2 Dec 2010