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Trapped Rainbow of Light May Find Application in On-Chip Spectroscopy

Over the past decade, scientists have succeeded in slowing pulses of light down to zero speed by letting separate frequency components of the pulse conspire in such a way that a receptive medium through which the pulse is passing can host the information stored in the pulse but not actually absorb the pulse's energy.

15 Jul 2010

New Model Describing Polymer Movement Inside Nanopores

The movement of long chain polymers through nanopores is a key part of many biological processes, including the transport of RNA, DNA, and proteins.

15 Jul 2010

ADT Secures SBIR Fund for Developing New Pad Conditioners

Advanced Diamond Technologies (ADT) received a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop the next generation of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) pad conditioners for the semiconductor industry.

15 Jul 2010

Electron Flow in Unusual Materials Tracked Using Microscopy Technique

On a quest to discover new states of matter, a team of Princeton University scientists has found that electrons on the surface of specific materials act like miniature superheroes, relentlessly dodging the cliff-like obstacles of imperfect microsurfaces, sometimes moving straight through barriers.

15 Jul 2010

Scanning Tunneling Microscope Helps to Understand Non-Superconducting Electronic Phase

Scientists have been trying for some 20 years to understand why the low temperature at which copper-oxide superconductors carry current with no resistance can't be increased to be closer to room temperature.

15 Jul 2010

Breakthrough in Developing Quantum Nanowire

Rice University scientists have found the "ultimate" solvent for all kinds of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), a breakthrough that brings the creation of a highly conductive quantum nanowire ever closer.

15 Jul 2010

Camfil Offers New Nano Dust Collector Filter

A new HemiPleat® Nano dust collector filter from Camfil Farr Air Pollution Control offers higher filtration efficiencies, longer service life, and lower pressure drop than competitive nano fiber filters, for energy savings and enhanced performance.

15 Jul 2010

Nanotechnology Academic and Technical Experts Deliver Presentations at SEMICON West 2010

Recognized academic and technical experts from the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany delivered presentations on July 14 at SEMICON West 2010, a leading industry conference and trade show held July 13 through 15 in San Francisco, CA.

14 Jul 2010

Using Optical Microscopy to Image Objects with Resolutions as Small as 0.5 Nanometers

Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate and former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) Steven Chu led the development of a technique that enables the use of optical microscopy to image objects or the distance between them with resolutions as small as 0.5 nanometers.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 14 Jul 2010

Enhanced Resolution in Low kv Region with New Electron Source Technology

Today, Carl Zeiss introduces EVO® HD, its latest innovation in the conventional Scanning Electron Microscopy (C-SEM) market segment. Delivering much higher resolution at low acceleration voltages compared to present conventional SEM, the EVO® HD introduces High Definition to electron microscopy.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 14 Jul 2010

Researchers Can Now Directly Profile up to 800 Transcripts in a Single Tube

NanoString Technologies, Inc., a privately held life sciences company marketing a novel digital molecular barcoding technology for detecting and counting large sets of targets in biological samples, today announced that it has increased the throughput of its nCounter® Analysis System by expanding its multiplexing capacity to 800 gene transcripts per reaction.

From Nanostring Technologies 14 Jul 2010