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IQE’s Subsidiary Secures Two Nanocolumn Technology Patents

IQE plc (AIM: IQE), the leading global supplier of advanced semiconductor epitaxial wafer products and wafer services to the semiconductor industry, is pleased to announce that NanoGaN Limited (“NanoGaN”), a ...

6 Aug 2010

BATT Program Funds Projects to Develop Nano-Enhanced Lithium Battery Anodes

The Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies (BATT) Program has announced the funding of eight R&D projects on lithium battery anodes. BATT is funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Vehicle...

6 Aug 2010

Magnolia to Develop Quantum Dot Solar Cells for Defense Market

Magnolia Solar Corporation (OTCBB: MGLT) ("Magnolia Solar"), a developer of high-performance, thin-film photovoltaic modules for defense and commercial applications, announced today that its wholly owned subsid...

6 Aug 2010

Altairnano Signs MOU with HNEI to Deliver 1 MW Energy Storage System

Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Altairnano) today announced it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Hawai'i Natural Energy Institute (HNEI) of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and the Hawai'i Electric Light Company to supply a one-megawatt ALTI-ESS energy storage system for a test of wind energy integration.

From Altair Nanotechnologies 6 Aug 2010

Aehr Test Receives Follow-On Orders for WaferPak Contactors

Aehr Test Systems (Nasdaq:AEHR), a worldwide supplier of semiconductor test and burn-in equipment, announced today that it has received approximately $2 million in follow-on orders for multiple FOX™-1 WaferPak cont...

6 Aug 2010

Next-Generation Real-Time PCR System Launched by WaferGen

WaferGen Biosystems, Inc., a leading developer of state-of-the-art genomic analysis systems, today announced it has launched the breakthrough WaferGen SmartChip Real-Time PCR System, the next-generation Real-Time PCR system for discovery and validation of biomarkers, or gene expression patterns, on a single platform.

From Takara Bio USA, Inc. 6 Aug 2010

Cascade Announces New Features for On-Wafer Measurements

Cascade Microtech, Inc. today announced two new probe station features that allow semiconductor manufacturers to perform on-wafer measurements and collect data over a wide range of temperatures, reducing time inefficiencies and increasing productivity.

From FormFactor 6 Aug 2010

Creative Chips’ 180-nm CMOS Controller Designed Using Synopsys' Galaxy Solution

Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that Creative Chips, a mixed-signal semiconductor IC provider, has taped out its most complex mixed-signal chip to date using Synopsys' Galaxy™ Implementation Platform.

From Synopsys, Inc. 6 Aug 2010

TSMC Selects Quartz DRC to Validate 28-nm Product Qualification Vehicle Test Chip

Magma® Design Automation Inc., a provider of chip design software, announced today that TSMC used Quartz™ DRC for physical verification of its 28-nanometer (nm) product qualification vehicle (PQV) test chip.

6 Aug 2010

NSF Grants Fund to a Professor for Converting Waste Material into Cleaning Agent

The National Science Foundation awarded Sudipta Seal a $67,000 grant that will help the professor turn waste material, commonly referred to as flyash, into a cleaning agent.

6 Aug 2010

Quantum Mechanics Enables Study of Superconducting Phenomenon

Physicists are divided on whether string theory is a viable theory of everything, but many agree that it offers a new way to look at physical phenomena that have otherwise proven difficult to describe. In the past dec...

6 Aug 2010

Computer Scientists Work on Protein-Folding Issue

Computer scientists and biochemists at the University of Washington two years ago launched an ambitious project harnessing the brainpower of computer gamers to solve medical problems. The game, Foldit, turns one of th...

6 Aug 2010

Researchers Demonstrate Test to Detect Infrared Leakage at 1064 nm

Green laser pointers have become a popular consumer item, delivering light that's brighter to the eye than red lasers, but stories have circulated on the Web about the potential hazards of inexpensive models. Now, a team led by physicist Charles Clark at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) puts some numbers to the problem.

6 Aug 2010

Physicists Achieves Ultrafast "Switching" Time in Operation Central to Quantum Information Processing

A team of physicists has achieved ultrafast “switching” time in an operation central to quantum information processing, changing the state of a single trapped ion in less than 50 picoseconds (10-12, or trillionths of a second) with more than 99 percent reliability.

6 Aug 2010

Funding to Support Research on Nano-Engineered Surfaces for Heat Management

Kripa Varanasi, the d'Arbeloff Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and leader of the Lab for Surface Science + Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, has received a 2010 Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

6 Aug 2010