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Advantest Introduces E3630 CD Measurement System for Next-Generation Photomasks

Advantest Corporation today announced availability of its new SEM-based Critical Dimension (CD) measurement system for next-generation photomasks and patterned media.

12 Nov 2010

New Finding May Help in Developing Large Graphene Sheets

The website of the Nobel Prize shows a cat resting in a graphene hammock. Although fictitious, the image captures the excitement around graphene, which, at one atom thick, is the among the thinnest and strongest materials ever produced.

12 Nov 2010

Rice Researchers Produce Pristine Sheets of Graphene from Sugar

Future computers may run a little sweeter, thanks to a refinement in the manufacture of graphene at Rice University.

12 Nov 2010

IRB Scientists Present World's Largest Data Base on Protein Motions

After four years of conducting intensive calculations in the supercomputer MareNostrum at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, scientists headed by Modesto Orozco at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelo...

12 Nov 2010

SRC and ATIC Join for Microelectronic Applications Research in Abu Dhabi

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) today announced a university research partnership serving the needs of the semiconductor industry and the future technology ecosystem in Abu Dhabi.

12 Nov 2010

Natcore Scientists Form 3D Matrix of Quantum Dots to Increase Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency

The research program of Natcore Technology Inc. (TSX-V: NXT; NTCXF.PK) being conducted by Natcore scientists working at Rice University under the direction of Prof. Andrew Barron has successfully formed a multilayered ar...

12 Nov 2010

SUSS MicroTec and Fraunhofer Launch Technology for Wafer Processing

SUSS MicroTec, a global supplier of equipment and process solutions for the semiconductor industry and related markets, and Fraunhofer for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST today announced the launch of SELECT, a technology for bond aligner and mask aligner that selectively activates parts of wafer surfaces through plasma. Local treatment of the surface prior to wafer processing replaces standard process steps and reduces the overall cost per wafer.

From SUSS MicroTec AG 12 Nov 2010

Futurecarbon Showcases Latest Super-Composite Materials at Swisstech 2010

FutureCarbon is exhibiting in the Nano Village of this year's Swisstech staged from 16 through 19 November in Basle. The Bayreuth-based company is presenting super-composite materials with new electrical and thermal ...

11 Nov 2010

Euronanoforum and Nanotech Europe to Produce Europe's Largest Nanotechnology Event

EuroNanoForum and Nanotech Europe are joining forces in 2011 to produce Europe's largest nanotechnology event. Supported by the European Commission and organised within the framework of the Presidency of the Euro...

11 Nov 2010

Keithley Instruments Hosts Application Forum

Keithley Instruments, Inc. (NYSE: KEI), a world leader in advanced electrical test instruments and systems, is hosting a forum designed to offer customers and users of Keithley instrumentation a central location for find...

11 Nov 2010

MIT Develops Cleaner, Greener Nanotube Manufacturing Process

Carbon nanotubes are a component used in electronics, medicine and industrial design. They are tiny, strong and have very useful electrical properties, but producing them can cause environmental problems due to the chemi...

By Andy Choi 11 Nov 2010

Event Showcases Nanotechnology in Builing Industry

'Nanotechnology and bionics - High tech in the building industry' is the title of a series of events being organised by the German Ministry of Economics and Technology and taking place at BAU 2011.

11 Nov 2010

Nanotechnology and Personalized Cancer Treatment

NaturalNano, Inc. (Pink Sheets:NNAN) (Frankfurt:N3N), a materials science company focused on developing and commercializing advanced nanocomposites, announced that Andrew Hughes is presenting today research from Cornell ...

11 Nov 2010

Micromeritics Matertials Characterization Equipment Will be on Show at PSWC

Micromeritics Instrument Corporation and Particulate Systems, a Micromeritics brand, will exhibit its materials characterization instrumentation that includes the Particle Insight Dynamic Image Analyzer, TriStar II Surface Area and Porosity System, and GeoPyc 1360 Pycnometer at Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress (PSWC).

From Malvern Panalytical 11 Nov 2010

Oxford Instruments Installs Cryofree Dilution Refrigerator for Graphene Research

Oxford Instruments has just installed its first Cryofree® dilution refrigerator in Spain to Dr Enrique Diez from Salamanca University. Dr Diez works on the popular subject of graphene, whose importance was recently recognised through the award of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics.

11 Nov 2010