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Scientists Performs Quantum Walk in a Quantum System with up to 23 Steps

A team of scientists led by the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has successfully performed a quantum walk in a quantum system with up to 23 steps. The study...

22 Mar 2010

FibeRio Technology Corporation Vies for Top Technology Title at Sold-Out Forum

FibeRio Technology Corporation received the silver prize among the over 90 top technology innovators from across the nation and around the world competing in Arlington, Texas, March 16-17 for top honors at WBT2010 presen...

22 Mar 2010

Physicist Awarded $1.65 million from NSF to Build Electrostatic Levitation Chamber

The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.65 million to a project led by Washington University in St. Louis physicist Ken Kelton to build an electrostatic levitation chamber that will be installed at the Spallation Neutron Source in Oakridge National Laboratory.

22 Mar 2010

Y-Carbon Awarded DOE Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Grant

Y-Carbon, Inc. announced that it has been awarded a Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) phase I grant. The grant comes as part of over $18 million in recently announced funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support small business innovation research, development, and deployment of clean energy technologies.

22 Mar 2010

Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology Release LN2 Upgrade for Cryo Tables

As a leader in systems and processes for etch, deposition and growth, Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT) is continuously designing upgrades for its systems, processes and software as new techniques are developed. In this way the company can offer greater efficiencies and cost savings to its customers.

22 Mar 2010

Veeco to Host "Seeing at the Nanoscale VIII" Conference

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), the leading provider of atomic force microscopes (AFMs) to the nanoscience community, announced today that it will host the "Seeing at the Nanoscale VIII" conference at the Congress Center, Basel, Switzerland, August 30-September 1, 2010, as part of the 550th anniversary celebrations of the University of Basel.

From Veeco 22 Mar 2010

IEEE PV Specialists Conference to Highlight Thin Film and Other Technologies

Registration opens today for the 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference being held at the Hawaii Convention Center on June 20-25, 2010. The early bird registration deadline is May 15, 2010. Registration instru...

22 Mar 2010

Ascent Solar and Kirloskar Partner to Market Thin-Film PV Modules in India

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a developer of flexible thin-film solar modules, announced today that it has signed a Strategic Alliance Agreement with Kirloskar Integrated Technologies Limited, India (Kirloskar).

22 Mar 2010

LTU Researchers Develop Lab on a Chip to Study Brain Cells in Stroke Patients

Lab on a Chip is what the scientists are calling their mini-lab, which is expected to facilitate studies of all sorts of biological cells and how they are affected by different medicines, chemical substances, etc.

22 Mar 2010

Arrowhead Research Demonstrates Successful "Silencing" of Widely Recognized Cancer Gene via RNAi in Humans

Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ARWR) today announced that the clinical trial being conducted by majority-owned subsidiary, Calando Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has demonstrated systemic delivery of siRNA and the succes...

From Arrowhead Pharmaceutical 22 Mar 2010

Exploiting Molecular Forces to Control the Form of Nanostructures

The ability to manipulate structures that have dimensions in the nanometer range (one millionth of a millimetre) in a controlled manner is at the heart of modern nanotechnology. Perhaps surprisingly, DNA is one of the mo...

22 Mar 2010

Monitoring Local Movements of Proteins in Time Frames of Nanoseconds to Microseconds

Researchers at the Department of Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a process that enables them to monitor local movements of proteins in time frames of nanoseconds to microseconds. When...

22 Mar 2010

Technic and Circuit Automation Partner to Market DP-1500-FL Screen Printer for Flexible Circuit Panels

Technic, Inc. and Circuit Automation, Inc. are pleased to announce a cooperative marketing and distribution agreement for the Circuit Automation DP-1500-FL double sided flexible coverlay screen printer.

22 Mar 2010

New Image Sensor from InVisage Features Quantum Dots

Ushering in a new era of high-performance image sensors, InVisage Technologies, Inc. -- a venture-backed start-up that is revolutionizing the way light is captured -- today announced QuantumFilm.

22 Mar 2010

Recent Work to Develop Semiconductor Nanowire Sheds Light on High-Efficiency Solar Cells and LEDs

A recent advance by Arizona State University researchers in developing nanowires could lead to more efficient photovoltaic cells for generating energy from sunlight, and to better light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that could replace less energy-efficient incandescent light bulbs.

22 Mar 2010