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Broadcom New 65nm Chip Enables Manufacturers to Build Low Cost Next Generation 3G HSUPA Phones

Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:BRCM) , a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced a new single-chip HSPA (high-speed packet access) baseband processor and a radio frequency (RF...

8 Feb 2010

Former VBrick CEO Joins Company to Help Commercialize and Bring Innovative New Nano-Resonator Technology to Market

Sand 9, Inc., a start-up company developing advanced nano-mechanical resonator technology for the wireless device market, today announced the appointment of Sand 9 board member and former VBrick CEO Vince Graziani as Chi...

8 Feb 2010

Revolutionary Lighting Technology that uses Nanotechnology

RTI International has developed a revolutionary lighting technology that is more energy efficient than the common incandescent light bulb and does not contain mercury, making it environmentally safer than the compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb.

8 Feb 2010

Controlling Properties of Magnets Could Improve Storage Capacity

Researchers in Chicago and London have developed a method for controlling the properties of magnets that could be used to improve the storage capacity of next-generation computer hard drives.

8 Feb 2010

Birthplace of Nanotechnology to Host October Symposium

In the quarter century since five men had their "Aha!" moment in Houston, the buckminsterfullerene molecule has become the vanguard of a revolution. Nanotechnology is already changing life on Planet Earth, and ...

8 Feb 2010

Nanotechnology Boosting Performance of Water-Splitting Solar Cells for Hydrogen Production

A novel strategy for engineering semiconductor materials can boost the performance of water-splitting solar cells for hydrogen production, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

8 Feb 2010

Nano-Discs Destroy Cancer Cells

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Medical Center are shaking up the world of materials science and cancer research on the cover of the February 2010 issue of the journal Nature Materials.

8 Feb 2010

Nanotechnology-Based Sensing Solutions for Agriculture and Environment Monitoring

New analysis from Frost + Sullivan, Sensors for Agriculture and Environment Monitoring, finds that advanced techniques such as sensors, wireless communication technologies, and robotics are employed for precision agricul...

8 Feb 2010

Nanotechnology Company Awarded at International Conference

Singapore-based Nanostart holding Curiox Biosystems Pte Ltd recently became the first Asian start-up company ever to be featured at LabAutomation's prestigious Innovation AveNEW, an award program serving to highlight...

From Coreo AG 8 Feb 2010

Results Should Aid Researchers in Their Quest for Elusive Higgs Boson

In December, the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, shattered the world record for highest energy particle collisions.

8 Feb 2010

Industrial Nanotech Receives Large Order from Saudi Environmental Projects

Industrial Nanotech, Inc. (Pink Sheets:INTK), an emerging global leader in nanoscience solutions, today announced that the Company has received a large order from Saudi Environmental Projects Ltd., the Company's excl...

From Industrial Nanotech, Inc. 8 Feb 2010

Nanotechnology Professor Joins Unidym as Member of Board of Directors

Unidym, Inc., a leader in carbon nanotube-based transparent, conductive films (TCFs) for the electronics industry, today announced that Malcolm Gillis, Ph.D. has been appointed to its Board of Directors. Dr. Gillis serve...

8 Feb 2010

Quantum Computing in Isotopically Engineered Diamond

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (abbreviated DFG, German Research Foundation in English) and the Japan Science and Technology Agency ( JST) are launching the research project "Quantum Computing in isotopically E...

8 Feb 2010

D3 Technologies Appoints New Chief Executive Officer

D3 Technologies Ltd, a world leading provider of trace level detection technologies based on the exploitation of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) and Surface-Enhanced Resonance Raman Scattering (SERRS), today announced that it has appointed David Burns as its new Chief Executive Officer.

7 Feb 2010

Imec and Holst Centre Report Ultra-Low Power Heart Activity Signal Processor

At today's International Solid State Circuit Conference, imec and Holst Centre report an analog-signal processor ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) - in short ASP - that reduces the overall power consumption of an ambulatory heart activity signal monitoring systems by more than 5 times.

From IMEC 6 Feb 2010