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Order Brings the Number of Integrated Metrology Etch Customers to Four

Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. (NASDAQ: NVMI) provider of leading edge stand-alone metrology and the market leader of integrated metrology solutions to the semiconductor process control market, today announced that a ma...

From Nova Measuring Instruments 11 Jan 2010

ETH Zurich Funds 24 New Spin-Offs

Despite the difficult economic climate, many researchers from ETH Zurich founded a company last year. The university recorded no fewer than 24 new spin-offs in 2009 - the most ever in a single year. Four of them are involved in the "cleantech" industry and deal in environmentally friendly technology.

11 Jan 2010

IMEC To Take Part in Green Touch Initiative

Today, imec announces that it will take part in the Green Touch Initiative, a new consortium initiated by Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent. The Green Touch Initiative is committed to inventing the technologies that will be at the heart of the next generation of sustainable networks.

From IMEC 11 Jan 2010

UQ's Quantum Computers Make Light Work of Harvard's Chemistry

UQ physicists and Harvard chemists have teamed up to build a quantum computer that could have profound implications for wider science. Professor Andrew White and colleagues from UQ's School of Mathematics and Phy...

10 Jan 2010

Platypus Technologies Awarded $2.2 Million Federal Contract

Platypus Technologies announces that it has been awarded a $2.2 Million federal contract with the Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center in Maryland (http://www.ecbc.army.mil). This 1-year funded project expands on the ...

10 Jan 2010

Groundbreaking Approach Could Impact Fields from Cryptography to Materials Science

In an important first for a promising new technology, scientists have used a quantum computer to calculate the precise energy of molecular hydrogen. This groundbreaking approach to molecular simulations could have profou...

10 Jan 2010

LANL's Top 10 Science Stories in 2009

Los Alamos National Laboratory has identified the Top 10 Laboratory science stories of 2009 based on global viewership of online media content and major programmatic milestones.

9 Jan 2010

Health, Safety, and Environmental Aspects of Nanotechnology

Research and Markets, the leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of the "Nanotechnology - Assessment of Health Safety and Environmental Factors" report to t...

From Research and Markets 8 Jan 2010

New Governance Framework for Nanotechnologies

The FramingNano project partners and Advisory Board members gathered in Brussels on Monday, 14 December 2009, ahead of the FramingNano International Conference "A New Governance Framework for Nanotechnologies" ...

8 Jan 2010

DEK Extends VectorGuard Stencil Portfolio

With the addition of the double layer Platinum stencil, a 'unique' stencil technology offering manufacturers a series of performance benefits over conventional screens, DEK has extended its popular VectorGuard st...

8 Jan 2010

$123 Million to Support New Scientific Research Facilities

The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today awarded more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 8 Jan 2010

First Direct Evidence of Quantum Critical Point in Iron-Based 'Pnictides'

New experiments on a recently discovered class of iron-based superconductors suggest that the ability of their electrons to conduct electricity without resistance is directly connected with the magnetic properties of tho...

8 Jan 2010

Researchers Reveal Mechanism Driving Early Brain Function Deterioration of Alzheimer's Victims

Despite a massive global research effort, many basics of Alzheimer's disease onset remain elusive. This has hampered development of treatments effective during the earliest stages of the disease, when prevention is m...

8 Jan 2010

Nanotechnology Researchers Developing New Family of Implant Materials

UConn engineering researchers are developing a new family of implant materials. His work in the red-hot area of nanotechnology has sparked three NSF-funded research awards for Leon Shaw, a professor in the Department of Chemical, Materials, + Biomolecular Engineering.

8 Jan 2010

Strip of Paper Infused with Carbon Nanotubes Detecting Toxin Produced by Algae in Drinking Water

A strip of paper infused with carbon nanotubes can quickly and inexpensively detect a toxin produced by algae in drinking water. Engineers at the University of Michigan led the development of the new biosensor. The p...

8 Jan 2010