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Veeco Appoints New CTO for CIGS Solar Equipment Business

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that Johannes Segner, Ph.D., recently joined the Company as Chief Technology Officer of Veeco's Solar Equipment business. In related news, Veeco will host a So...

From Veeco 1 Sep 2010

Underwater Sound Generation Using Carbon Nanotube Projectors

Speakers made from carbon nanotube sheets that are a fraction of the width of a human hair can both generate sound and cancel out noise -- properties ideal for submarine sonar to probe the ocean depths and make subs invisible to enemies.

1 Sep 2010

imec Launches European Seventh Framework Project MIRACLE

Today, at the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) in Buenos Aires (Argentina), imec and its project partners announce the launch of the European Seventh Framework Project MIRACLE. The MIRACLE project ai...

From IMEC 1 Sep 2010

GLOBALFOUNDRIES Showcases Industry’s First Open-Access 28nm AMS Production Design Flow Development Kit

At today’s inaugural Global Technology Conference, GLOBALFOUNDRIES showcased the industry’s first open-access 28nm Analog/Mixed-Signal (AMS) production design flow development kit. The company is making the flow available to customers as a platform to build upon proven foundry methodologies and enable successful design.

From GlobalFoundries 1 Sep 2010

Two Oxides Show Strong Thermoelectric Properties Despite Being Metallic

Thermoelectric materials convert temperature gradients to electric voltage and vice versa by causing charge carriers to diffuse from hot to cold parts of the material. They are used to power spacecraft, harness waste hea...

1 Sep 2010

Silicon-Based Photonic Circuits Achieve Data Transmission Capabilities Sufficient for Next-Generation Devices

Microelectronic devices such as computer processors and memory chips almost universally rely on silicon to control electrical currents. However, silicon’s poor light-emitting properties have limited its use in phot...

1 Sep 2010

Gold Nanoparticles Power Quick and Colorful Method to Detect Protein–DNA Interactions with Nucleotide-Specific Sensitivity

Certain chemical pollutants can imitate hormones produced naturally in the body; bisphenol-A, for example, can mimic estrogen. Because estrogen can pass directly through cell walls to influence the transfer of genetic in...

1 Sep 2010

Using Laser Pulse to Fabricate Nanostructures for Microelectronic Devices

Demand for ever-smaller electronic devices, whether are for information storage, high-definition displays or sensor arrays, is driving demand for nanofabrication techniques that can define ever-smaller features on circui...

1 Sep 2010

New Microscope Features Ultra Stable Specimen Stage For High Magnification Navigation

The new SU8040 Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM) from Hitachi High-Technologies features a newly developed Regulus (REGULated Ultra Stable) Specimen Stage for unprecedented smooth sample control even at ultra-high magnification.

31 Aug 2010

COIN Receives Grant to Host Series of NanoBio Roundtables

The Center of Innovation for Nanobiotechnology (COIN) today announced it has received a Biotechnology Event Sponsorship grant from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center that will support a series of NanoBio Executive R...

31 Aug 2010

Tyndall CEO Welcomes Forf s Report on Commercialisation of Nanotechnology In Ireland

Professor Roger Whatmore, CEO of Tyndall National Institute welcomed today the Forf s report on Ireland s Nanotechnology Commercialisation Framework 2010-2014. Speaking at the launch of the report, Professor Whatmore commended the Forf s report on its recognition of the importance of Nanotechnology as a powerful growth engine for the Irish economy.

31 Aug 2010

Nanosize Biological Particles with Potential To Fight Cancer and Other Illnesses

Two new groundbreaking scientific papers by researchers at UC Santa Barbara demonstrate the synthesis of nanosize biological particles with the potential to fight cancer and other illnesses. The studies introduce new app...

31 Aug 2010

Patent Allowance Protects Marina Biotech Key Delivery Technology for RNAi Therapeutics

Marina Biotech, Inc., a leading RNAi-based drug discovery and development company, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a Notice of Allowance for patent application U.S. 11/745,003 broadly...

31 Aug 2010

Researchers Develop Way to Improve Solar Cells using Off-the-Shelf Dyes

Like most technologies, work on solar devices has proceeded in generational waves. First came bulk silicon-based solar cells built with techniques that borrowed heavily from those used to make computer chips. Next ca...

31 Aug 2010

Scientists Create First Two-Terminal Memory Chips Using Only Silicon

Rice University scientists have created the first two-terminal memory chips that use only silicon, one of the most common substances on the planet, in a way that should be easily adaptable to nanoelectronic manufacturing techniques and promises to extend the limits of miniaturization subject to Moore's Law.

31 Aug 2010

Nanotechnology News

Veeco Appoints New CTO for CIGS Solar Equipment Business

Underwater Sound Generation Using Carbon Nanotube Projectors

imec Launches European Seventh Framework Project MIRACLE

GLOBALFOUNDRIES Showcases Industry’s First Open-Access 28nm AMS Production Design Flow Development Kit

Two Oxides Show Strong Thermoelectric Properties Despite Being Metallic

Silicon-Based Photonic Circuits Achieve Data Transmission Capabilities Sufficient for Next-Generation Devices

Gold Nanoparticles Power Quick and Colorful Method to Detect Protein–DNA Interactions with Nucleotide-Specific Sensitivity

Using Laser Pulse to Fabricate Nanostructures for Microelectronic Devices

New Microscope Features Ultra Stable Specimen Stage For High Magnification Navigation

COIN Receives Grant to Host Series of NanoBio Roundtables

Tyndall CEO Welcomes Forf s Report on Commercialisation of Nanotechnology In Ireland

Nanosize Biological Particles with Potential To Fight Cancer and Other Illnesses

Patent Allowance Protects Marina Biotech Key Delivery Technology for RNAi Therapeutics

Researchers Develop Way to Improve Solar Cells using Off-the-Shelf Dyes

Scientists Create First Two-Terminal Memory Chips Using Only Silicon

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