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Waters Introduces New System to Automate Liquid Chromatography Method

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today unveiled its new Waters® ACQUITY UPLC® H-Class Method Development System that automates liquid chromatography method development according to Quality-by-Design (QbD) guidelines t...

22 Jun 2010

New 28nm FPGA Series from Xilinx Lowers Total Power Consumption by 50%

Xilinx, Inc. today announced the industry's first FPGA series that slashes total power consumption by 50 percent and offers industry-leading capacity of up to 2 million logic cells on the only unified architecture that scales across low-cost to ultra high-end families.

22 Jun 2010

Cephalon to Utilize Celator's Nano-Scale Delivery Platforms for Drug Development

Celator Pharmaceuticals today announced that it has expanded its research agreement with Cephalon, Inc. (Nasdaq: CEPH). The research agreement provides for the utilization of Celator's proprietary technology in an o...

22 Jun 2010

Plastic Nanoparticles Prevent Bee Venom Spreading in Mice

UC Irvine researchers have developed the first "plastic antibodies" successfully employed in live organisms – stopping the spread of bee venom through the bloodstream of mice. Tiny polymeric particles – just...

22 Jun 2010

Innofidei’s 65nm Low-Power SoC Achieves First-Pass Silicon Success with Cadence’s Solution

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a leader in global electronic design innovation, today announced that Innofidei Inc., a leading mobile chipset provider based in Beijing, China, has successfully taped out the industry’s first long-term evolution time division duplex (LTE-TDD, or TD-LTE) baseband chip supporting a bandwidth of 20MHz for the next-generation TD-CDMA wireless communications protocol.

From Cadence Design Systems 22 Jun 2010

International Conference on Quantum Physics to be Held at Max Planck Institute

The third international conference on the history of quantum physics will be held at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, building on the momentum generated by two previous conferences held in Berlin...

22 Jun 2010

New Cost-Effective Technique to Produce Graphene in Large Numbers

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a simple new method for producing large quantities of the promising nanomaterial graphene.

22 Jun 2010

Essen, Nycomed to Develop New Small Molecule Ion Channel Modulators

Essen BioScience Inc. - a specialty provider of cell-based assay solutions and contract research services – and Nycomed – a privately owned global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland - are pleased to announce a joint discovery agreement to identify novel small molecule ion channel modulators as pain therapeutics.

22 Jun 2010

New GEMStar ALD System from Arradiance Uniformly Deposits Nanolaminate Films

Arradiance today announced their powerful new GEMStar™ Benchtop Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) system timed with the start of the American Vacuum Society’s annual Atomic Layer Deposition Meeting in Seoul, Korea.

From Arradiance 22 Jun 2010

Nanoelectronics Experts to Present at SEMICON West 2010 in California

SEMATECH and International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI) will highlight current research through a wide range of lectures and workshop sessions from July 13-15, in conjunction with SEMICON West 2010 in San Francisco, CA.

22 Jun 2010

U of A, NINT Researchers Develop Plastic Solar Cell with Extended Operating Life

A team of researchers from the University of Alberta and the National Institute for Nanotechnology has extended the operating life of an unsealed plastic solar cell, from mere hours to eight months. The res...

22 Jun 2010

Waters Unveils New ACQUITY UltraPerformance Liquid Chromatography System

Waters Corporation introduced new ACQUITY® UltraPerformance Liquid Chromatography (UPLC®) and HPLC columns that offer method development scientists additional selectivity choices and improved chromatographic performance for separations using acidic, low ionic strength mobile phases.

22 Jun 2010

Making Visible What the Human Eye Can't See - Hyperspectral Imaging

Imagine a pen-sized device to check your skin for melanoma. You skim the surface of your skin, and, if necessary, the pen advises you to see your physician to have a closer look at a certain spot.

From IMEC 21 Jun 2010

Imec Demonstrates Integrated Electrical Sources of Surface Plasmons

Imec has fabricated electrical sources of surface plasmons, based on integrating light emitting diodes with metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguides. These sources, together with earlier work demonstrating plasmon detectors, are a prerequisite for making an interface between electronics and plasmonic circuits.

From IMEC 21 Jun 2010

Collaboration to Study Promising Application of GeSn for Future pMOS Devices

GeSn materials show promise, for example as embedded source/drain stressors for Ge channels in future pMOS devices. Imec has started a collaboration to assess the possible applications of GeSn materials, and to see how these applications could be implemented.

From IMEC 21 Jun 2010