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ORNL Researcher Elected Fellow of the American Chemical Society

Michelle Buchanan, Associate Laboratory Director in Physical Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected to the 2010 class of fellows of the American Chemical Society. The ACS Fellows Program recogniz...

From Oak Ridge National Laboratory 25 Jul 2010

Veriteq Launch viewLinc 3.5 for Researchers and Developers Involved in Nanobiotech

Nanotech researchers and engineers involved in biotech and similar regulated industries seeking continuous monitoring systems specifically geared for larger enterprises can deploy viewLinc 3.5 -http://www.veriteq.com/vie...

25 Jul 2010

Leading Players Present at 2010 Symposium on Optoelectronic Materials and Devices

On July 12 and 13, 2010, experts from across the solar photovoltaics, infrared (IR) photovoltaics and light emitting diode (LED) disciplines met to review and discuss recent progress and future trends in the rapidly adva...

23 Jul 2010

Eco-Friendly Way for Mass Production of Graphene Oxide

"We can make you and we can break you." If Rice University scientists wrote country songs, their ode to graphene oxide would start something like that. But this song wouldn't break anybody's heart. A new paper fr...

23 Jul 2010

New Advanced Cooling Technology for Electronics Uses Carbon Nanotubes

Researchers have shown that an advanced cooling technology being developed for high-power electronics in military and automotive systems is capable of handling roughly 10 times the heat generated by conventional computer chips.

23 Jul 2010

Photonics Professor Works on Quantum Computing

When waves - regardless of whether light or sound - collide, they overlap creating interferences. Austrian and Canadian quantum physicists have now been able to rule out the existence of higher-order interferences experimentally and thereby confirmed an axiom in quantum physics: Born's rule.

23 Jul 2010

Scientists Study Effects of X-Ray Free Electron Laser Beam on Nitrogen Gas

Scientists for the first time have dived into the effect that an intense X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) has on materials. Using the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) facility at the SLAC National Accelerator Labora...

23 Jul 2010

Major Chipmaker Orders Three Wafer Inspection Systems from Camtek

Camtek Ltd. (NASDAQ and TASE: CAMT) ("Camtek"), announced today that it received follow-on orders for three wafer inspection systems from a major IDM (Integrated Device Maker) and chipmaker. The three system...

23 Jul 2010

One-Day Workshop on MEMS, NEMS to be Held on July 26, 2010

On July 26th, Stevens will host over 100 students and researchers from local universities and companies for a one-day workshop on NEMS/MEMS with a focus on Nanomanufacturing. In addition to technical and poster sessio...

23 Jul 2010

Advanced Biophotonic Method Helps to Study Cellular Changes at Molecular Levels

Apoptosis, programmed cell death, is essential to normal development, healthy immune system function, and cancer prevention. The process dramatically transforms cellular structures but the limitations of conventional microscopy methods have kept much about this structural reorganization a mystery.

23 Jul 2010

Novel Technique to Grow Membranes of Binary Nanocrystal Superlattices

Collaboration by chemists, physicists and materials scientists at the University of Pennsylvania has created a simple and inexpensive method to rapidly grow centimeter-scale membranes of binary nanocrystal superlattices, or BNSLs, by crystallizing a mixture of nanocrystals on a liquid surface.

23 Jul 2010

Fujitsu Deploys Cadence’s Technology for Logic Design at 65-nm Process

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a leader in global electronic design innovation, today announced that Fujitsu Limited has adopted the Cadence® Encounter® Conformal® ECO Designer to cut costs and reduce design time in its engineering change order (ECO) implementation flow.

From Cadence Design Systems 23 Jul 2010