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New Product Line Enables CPV Systems Manufacturers to Achieve Lower Cost of Ownership

Cyrium Technologies Inc. announced today the introduction of the company's first commercial product line: QDEC (Quantum Dot Enhanced Cell), a line of high-efficiency concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) cells for land-based, commercial solar applications.

15 Dec 2009

Research Focuses on Characteristics and Composition of Ultrafine Particles from Engine

The Key Laboratory for Power Machinery and Engineering of M. O. E, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in Shanghai, showed that the characteristics of ultrafine particles from a compression- ignition engine fueled with ...

15 Dec 2009

First-Ever Paper on LHC Proton Collisions Published Online in European Physical Journal

The first paper on proton collisions in the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - designed to provide the highest energy ever explored with particle accelerators - is published online this week in Springer's European Ph...

15 Dec 2009

SouthWest NanoTechnologies Awarded Prestigious Grants from OCAST

SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc. (SWeNT), a leading manufacturer of single-wall and specialty multi-wall carbon nanotubes (CNT), has been awarded two prestigious grants from the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST).

15 Dec 2009

Constant Diameter NeedleProbes for AFM Opens Up New Area of Research

Constant diameter NeedleProbes™ for Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) have been developed and are opening up a new area of research for studies at the liquid/air interface. The NeedleProbes' cylindrical geometry en...

15 Dec 2009

Study Describes What Appears to be an Entirely New Bacterial Behavior

Bacteria dance the electric slide, officially named electrokinesis by the USC geobiologists who discovered the phenomenon. Their study, published online today in PNAS Early Edition, describes what appears to be an entire...

15 Dec 2009

NIST Physicists Predict New Form of Soliton in Ultracold Gases

Solitary waves that run a long distance without losing their shape or dying out are a special class of waves called solitons. These everlasting waves are exotic enough, but theoreticians now believe that there may be a new kind of soliton that's even more special.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 15 Dec 2009

NIST to Fund 20 New Research Projects Ranging from Unmanned Hovering Aircraft to Nanotechnology

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced funding for 20 new research projects under its Technology Innovation Program (TIP), including projects ranging from unmanned, hovering aircraft fo...

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 15 Dec 2009

SolRayo Releases Additional Details on Upcoming Line of Highly Customizable Potentiostat Systems

Enable IPC Corporation (PINKSHEETS: EIPC) today announced that its subsidiary, SolRayo, Inc., released additional details on its upcoming line of highly customizable potentiostat systems for use in energy storage charact...

15 Dec 2009

NCI Selects Zecotek Photonics Tunable Green Fiber Laser for Research in Flow Cytometry

Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ZMS)(FRANKFURT:W1I), a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced that the National Cancer Institute, a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), has selected its proprietary Tunable Green Fiber Laser (TGFL) for research in flow cytometry.

From Zecotek Photonics 15 Dec 2009

Rare-Earth Metal Making Phosphate Glass Block UV Light

Adding cerium oxide to phosphate glass rather than the commonly used silicate glass may make glasses that block ultraviolet light and have increased radiation damage resistance while remaining colorless, according to Pen...

15 Dec 2009

MEMC Electronic Materials Receives Supplier of Excellence Award from TSMC

MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. (NYSE:WFR) , a leading provider of silicon wafers and North America's largest solar energy services provider, has received the Supplier of Excellence award from Taiwan Semiconductor Ma...

From TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company 15 Dec 2009

Nemotek Technologie Announces In-House Testing Capabilities for its WLCs

Nemotek Technologie, a manufacturer of customized Wafer-Level Cameras (WLCs) for portable applications, today announced in-house testing capabilities for its WLCs. As the first company to offer WLC design, manufacturing ...

15 Dec 2009

Shrink Nanotechnologies Highlights Rapid Achievements Accomplished in 2009

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. ("Shrink") (OTCBB: INKN), an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the solar energy production, medical diagnostics and sensors and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, today highlighted the rapid achievements accomplished in 2009.

15 Dec 2009

Patents Issued for Licensed PAL-M Super-Resolution Technology

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued three patents (US 7,626,694, US 7,828,695 and US 7,626,703) to Dr. Eric Betzig and Dr. Harald Hess for their invention relating to super-resolution Photo-Activated...

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 15 Dec 2009