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JHU Presents The Jan M. Minkowski Memorial Lecture in Quantum Electronics

Johns Hopkins University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering presents The Jan M. Minkowski Memorial Lecture in Quantum Electronics, "Nonlinear Optics on the Nanoscale: Towards Terabit Optical Processors".

25 Mar 2010

New Way to Produce High Quality Semiconductor Materials for Microelectronics and Nanotechnology

University of Maryland researchers have created a completely new way to produce high quality semiconductor materials critical for advanced microelectronics and nanotechnology.

25 Mar 2010

Scientists Demonstrate Nanogap AgAQCs Show Electrocatalytic Activities

In a recent publication in the prestigious Journal of the Americam Chemical Society (JACS) Arturo Lopez Quintela and co-workers have demonstrated that Silver atomic quantum clusters (AgAQCs), with two or three silver ato...

From Nanogap 25 Mar 2010

Events Combine Updates on Micro- and Nanotechnologies And Networking with Global Leaders in Research, Industry and Finance

Leti today announced that it will host its 12th Annual Review on June 22 during MINATEC Crossroads '10 in Grenoble.

25 Mar 2010

NREL and 3M to Develop New Thin Film PV Technologies

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) today announced a series of Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) with 3M, the St. Paul, Minn.-based technology company.

25 Mar 2010

Thin Film PV to Have a Big Impact on Renewable Energy Industry

Dr Alan Whitehead MP will claim that photovoltaics, the "forgotten renewable" has now become a very viable economic choice for homeowners. Speaking tomorrow Thursday (25 March) at the conference dinner of th...

25 Mar 2010

Pyxle Develops Nano-Based Information Portal for Sri Lanka

The Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology Pvt. Ltd (SLINTEC) recently announced the launch of a highly informative website - the first Sri Lankan nano-based information portal. Developed by Pyxle, it is an interactive we...

25 Mar 2010

Largest Particle Collider can Help to Understand Dark Matter

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, could generate astonishing new insights into the Big Bang, the building blocks of the universe, the mysterious properties...

25 Mar 2010

Fluidigm, SABiosciences to Create Gene Expression Panels for Real-Time PCR Analysis

Fluidigm Corporation and SABiosciences (a QIAGEN Company) today announced that they have teamed up to create over 100 pathway-focused gene expression panels validated for real-time PCR analysis on the Fluidigm BioMark™ System for Genetic Analysis.

From Standard BioTools 25 Mar 2010

Atomic Layer Deposition Coating Technique for Food and Pharmaceutical Packaging

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed an environmentally-friendly packaging coating solution. Especially suitable for food and pharmaceutical packaging, the coating offers a new method for manufactu...

25 Mar 2010

Ex-President and CEO of Thermo Fibergen to Join Owlstone Nanotech Board

Advance Nanotech, Inc. (OTCBB: AVNA) is pleased to announce that Dr. Yiannis Monovoukas, Ph.D., MBA has agreed to join the board of directors of Owlstone Nanotech, Inc. ("Owlstone"). Dr. Monovoukas is currently Chai...

From Owlstone Nanotech 25 Mar 2010

New Wireless MEMS Sensor to be Developed

STMicroelectronics, the world's leading supplier of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) devices for consumer and portable applications, has announced that it will develop and supply a wireless MEMS sensor that acts as a transducer, antenna and mechanical support for additional read-out electronics in a breakthrough platform developed by Swiss company Sensimed AG.

25 Mar 2010

Handshaking Particles for Engineering Microscopic Machinery with Mobile Parts

Physicists at New York University have created "handshaking" particles that link together based on their shape rather than randomly. Their work, reported in the latest issue of the journal Nature, marks the first ti...

25 Mar 2010

Scientists Create New Implantable Device That Measures Electrical Activity of Heart

A team of cardiologists, materials scientists, and bioengineers have created and tested a new type of implantable device for measuring the heart's electrical output that they say is a vast improvement over current devices. The new device represents the first use of flexible silicon technology for a medical application.

25 Mar 2010

Biocompatible Flexible Electronics for New Surgical Applications

Arrhythmic hearts soon may beat in time again, with minimal surgical invasion, thanks to flexible electronics technology developed by a team of University of Illinois researchers, in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Northwestern University. These biocompatible silicon devices could mark the beginning of a new wave of surgical electronics.

25 Mar 2010