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Frost + Sullivan Honors SouthWest NanoTechnologies for Innovation in Carbon Nanotubes

Frost + Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, honored SouthWest NanoTechnologies, Inc. (SWeNT), the world leader in high quality, Single-Wall and Specialty Multi-Wall carbon nanotubes (CNT) at the 2010 Excellence in Industrial Technologies Awards.

26 May 2010

Cost-Effective, Easy-to-Use 3D Optical Profiler for Research & Production

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), a leading global provider of precision instrumentation and metrology solutions for scientific and industrial markets, today announced a new low-cost member of its ContourGTTM family...

From Veeco 26 May 2010

How Fast Magnetic Particles Can Be Controlled

Christian Stamm and his colleagues at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Mate-rialien und Energie (HZB) can look back on six years of pioneering work at the synchrotron BESSY II.

26 May 2010

EcoloCap Signs Letter of Intent with MEGES BV

EcoloCap Solutions Inc., an integrated network of environmentally-focused technology companies that utilize nanotechnology to develop efficient alternative energy solutions, today announced that it has signed a Letter of...

26 May 2010

Quick and Efficient Imaging of Large-Area Specimens with Nanometer Resolution

Today, Carl Zeiss launches ATLAS™, a powerful hard- and software package, which, in combination with any scanning electron microscope from Carl Zeiss, enables quick and efficient imaging of large-area specimens with nanometer resolution.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 26 May 2010

MRS Appoints New Research Fellows from Sandia

Julia Phillips, director of Nuclear Weapons Science and Technology Programs at Sandia National Laboratories, and Sandia researcher Neville Moody have been named Fellows in the Materials Research Society (MRS). The tit...

From Sandia National Laboratories 26 May 2010

Paradigm Shift in Information and Communication Technology

A silicon-based nanoscale system which aims to harness the 'spin' of electrons to boost the processing power of future computer systems is being developed by researchers at the University of Southampton, jointly with the University of Cambridge, the NTT Basic Research Laboratories and the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory.

26 May 2010

Silver Nanoparticles Prevent Cell Damage from Ethanol

The cover story of the most recent edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) describes how nanoparticles formed by very small numbers of silver atoms can protect against the cell damage caused b...

26 May 2010

GTRI Team Tests Use of Trapped Ions in Quantum Simulation

Despite a steady improvement in the speed of conventional computers during the last few decades, certain types of problems remain computationally difficult to solve.

26 May 2010

Rapid Synthesis of Nanoscale Reporter Tags Offers Promising Alternative to Fluorescent Labeling

Visualizing the complex internal cellular processes within our bodies requires the use of photostable, optically active probes that can be tracked with special microscopy instruments. One technique, surface-enhanced Rama...

26 May 2010

Electrical Detection of Plasmonic Waves Using Ultra-Compact Structure via Nanocavity

Light can force the electrons at the surface of a metal to collectively oscillate. Coupling these oscillations with photons-creating 'surface plasmon polaritons' or SPPs-could lead to intriguing applications in c...

26 May 2010

Photonic Crystal Fiber Set to Revolutionize Performance of Fiber-Optic Devices

The thin glass threads of conventional optical fibers underpin our information-driven society, moving data in the form of light pulses at breakneck speeds around the globe. Now, a new type of optical fiber, called photon...

26 May 2010

E Ink, Chilin Join to Offer Electronic Paper Displays for Industrial and Specialized Sectors

E Ink® Corporation, the leading developer and producer of electronic paper display technology, and Chilin Technology Corporation, a leading manufacturer of vertically integrated flat panel displays, announced a partnership today to bring low-power industrial and other specialized electrophoretic displays to the marketplace.

26 May 2010

Appareo Selects ADI’s iMEMS Gyroscope for New Aircraft Safety and Training Tool

Analog Devices, Inc. is furnishing its high performance iMEMS® gyroscope technology for a new aircraft flight safety and training tool developed by Appareo Systems.

26 May 2010

SiTime Achieves Leadership Position in MEMS Timing Market

SiTime Corporation, the industry leader in MEMS-based analog semiconductor solutions, today announced that it has 85% share of the MEMS-based timing market, according to a recent report from Yole Développement, a leading MEMS technology consulting firm.

26 May 2010