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New Optical Profiler from Taylor Hobson Supports Thin- and Thick Film Measurements

The new CCI SunStar merges world leading non-contact dimensional measurement capability with advanced thin and thick film technology.

24 Apr 2010

Intezyne Soon to Receive European Patent for IVECT Nanoparticle Method

Intezyne today announced it has received notification the European Patent Office intends to grant a patent covering a key element of Intezyne’s breakthrough drug delivery technology, the IVECT™ Method. At the core of ...

24 Apr 2010

ChipMOS Signs Wafer Sort Services Agreement with Flash Memory Provider

ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES (Bermuda) LTD. (Nasdaq: IMOS) today announced that leading flash memory provider Spansion LLC and ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC., a wholly owned subsidiary of ChipMOS, have entered into a two-year wafer s...

24 Apr 2010

Analog Devices Develops Two New MEMS Microphones for Portable Electronics

Many of today’s portable electronic devices are on the cusp of an audio revolution. While in recent years designers have focused on the development of exciting new functions, such as wireless Internet access and mobile TV reception, advancement of audio functions has lagged behind. Analog Devices, Inc., well known for delivering superior high-performance audio signal processing technology, has created two new MEMS microphones that enable advanced audio functions for portable electronics.

24 Apr 2010

Nanopatch 100 Times Better than Needle and Syringe

New research, led by Professor Mark Kendall, from UQ's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, demonstrates that a vaccine delivered by a Nanopatch induces a similarly protective immune response a...

23 Apr 2010

Researchers Work Out Structure of Transporter Protein in All Three Main Structural States

A team of EU-funded researchers has become the first in the world to work out the structure of a transporter protein in all three main structural states. Transporter proteins are responsible for ferrying substances into ...

23 Apr 2010

New Breed of Micro-Supercapacitors Boosting Performance and Longevity of Portable Electric Energy Storage Devices

"Just think how often your fancy new mobile phone or computer has become little more than a paperweight because the battery lost its zeal for doing its job," says John Chmiola, a chemist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 23 Apr 2010

Breakthrough 3D Microscopic Technique Improves Development of Nanoscale Structures and Devices

IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists have created a 3D map of the earth so small that 1,000 of them could fit on one grain of salt.* The scientists accomplished this through a new, breakthrough technique that uses a tiny, silicon tip with a sharp apex - 100,000 times smaller than a sharpened pencil - to create patterns and structures as small as 15 nanometers at greatly reduced cost and complexity.

23 Apr 2010

TUM and Fujitsu Jointly Develop Novel Biosensor Chip

In the battle against cancer and other diseases, precise analysis of specific proteins can point the way toward targeted treatments. Scientists at theTechnische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), together with Fujitsu Labor...

23 Apr 2010

U-M Researchers Develop Microfluidic ICs for Simpler Lab-on-a-Chip Medical Devices

As a way to simplify lab-on-a-chip devices that could offer quicker, cheaper and more portable medical tests, University of Michigan researchers have created microfluidic integrated circuits. Just as electro...

23 Apr 2010

Scientists Discover Similarities Between Humans, Worms and Computer Chips

Scientists have discovered "striking similarities" between human brains, the nervous system of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans and computer chips.

23 Apr 2010

Scientists Develop New Early Cancer Detection Method Using Nanoparticles

University of Missouri School of Medicine scientists explain a potentially new early cancer detection and treatment method using nanoparticles created at MU in an article published in the Proceedings of the National...

23 Apr 2010

Axcess Wins Order for Wireless ID System with Nano-Positioning Sensors

Axcess International Inc. (OTCBB: AXSI), a leader in wireless credentials, today announced it has secured a contract for providing a wireless ID system in support of advanced workforce management applications that will improve the safety of workers on a large oil platform in the Far East.

23 Apr 2010

Novel Lensless Miniature Microscope Developed for Healthcare Industry

Aydogan Ozcan, whose invention of a novel lensless imaging technology for use in telemedicine could radically transform global health care, has now taken his work a step further ¯ or tinier: The UCLA engineer has cr...

23 Apr 2010

New Optical Material Opens Door to Superlensing Phenomena

A group of scientists led by researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has engineered a type of artificial optical material—a metamaterial—with a particular three-dimensional structure such that light exhibits a negative index of refraction upon entering the material.

23 Apr 2010