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Micralyne Appoints Nancy Fares as New President and CEO

Micralyne Inc., a world-renowned, independent MEMS solutions company, today announced the appointment of Nancy Fares as President and CEO. Fares brings a wealth of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) industry expe...

From Micralyne Inc. 26 Jul 2010

Dr. Borri to Use £1.1M Award for Developing New Optical Nanoscopy Technology

A Cardiff University researcher has secured a highly sought-after Leadership award which could propel her research onto the world stage. Dr Paola Borri, Cardiff School of Biosciences, is a physicist working in the are...

26 Jul 2010

Novel Technique to Produce Graphene Organic Photovoltaics

A University of Southern California team has produced flexible transparent carbon atom films that the researchers say have great potential for a new breed of solar cells.

26 Jul 2010

DayStar Plans for Offshore Production of CIGS Thin-Film Solar Modules

DayStar Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: DSTI), a developer of solar photovoltaic products based on CIGS thin-film deposition technology announced today it is pursuing a strategy for offshore manufacturing of its CIGS solar m...

26 Jul 2010

New Thin-Film Chips Help to Achieve 30% Increase in LED Efficiency

Developers at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors have succeeded in increasing the efficiency of red thin-film LEDs by 30% – a new record.

26 Jul 2010

U.S. Demand for Nano-Based Medical Products to Increase Over 17%

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Nanotechnology in Health Care. US demand to rise more than 17% annually thru 2014 US demand for nanotechnology medical pr...

26 Jul 2010

GoNano Secure Grant to Continue Development of Nanospring Materials

National Science Foundation awarded a Phase I SBIR grant in the amount of $147,095 to GoNano Technologies, Inc., a Moscow, Idaho-based nanotechnology company specializing in the development of high surface area Nanosprin...

25 Jul 2010

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