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AIXTRON Founder Recognized for Contribution to Semiconductor Industry

AIXTRON AG today announced that Dr. Holger Juergensen, one of the company’s founders, had been recognized for his personal contribution to the Semiconductor industry and awarded the European SEMI Award for 2009.

From AIXTRON SE 7 Oct 2009

Project Demonstrates that Silicon Nanowire Synthesis can be CMOS-Compatible

Leti, the leading research and development institute focused on micro- and nano-technologies, announced today that it has broken new ground in the integration of nanotechnology with traditional complementary metal oxide ...

7 Oct 2009

Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies to Participate in Russian Venture Fund

The Supervisory Council of RUSNANO approved the Corporation's participation in Russian venture fund, which will be established in partnership with VTB Group and Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ).

7 Oct 2009

AZUR SPACE Solar Power Qualifies Veeco TurboDisc Arsenic Phosphide MOCVD System

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that its TurboDisc® Arsenic Phosphide (As/P) metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) System has been qualified for production at AZUR SPACE Solar Power Gm...

6 Oct 2009

New Paper on Piezo Actuator Lifetime and Reliability Now Available from PI

The paper describes the development and lifetime tests of ceramic encapsulated actuators in comparision with conventional polymer coated piezo actuators. Dynamic operation with a new internal electrode design for stress reduction as well as special external electrodes for high-current applications are discussed.

From Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co KG 6 Oct 2009

MIT-Harvard CCNE Collaborator Awarded with Nobel Prize in Medicine

This year's Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to three scientists - Drs. Jack W. Szostak, Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol W. Greider. The laureates have solved a major problem in biology: how the chromosomes can b...

6 Oct 2009

Cymer Appoints New Member to its Board of Directors

Cymer, Inc. (NASDAQ:CYMI) , the world's leading supplier of light sources used by chipmakers to create advanced semiconductor chips, today announced the election of Eric Ruttenberg to the company's Board of Direc...

From Cymer, Inc. 6 Oct 2009

IMEC and TSMC Joining Forces to Bring Novel Technology Solutions to Emerging Markets

IMEC and TSMC today announce that they have forged an Innovation Incubation Alliance to create a platform enabling the development of innovative product solutions using emerging More-than-Moore technology options.

From IMEC 6 Oct 2009

IMEC Announces Breakthrough in Lab-on-Chip for Fast Cancer Detection and Therapy

IMEC, a leading European research center in nanotechnology, the Institüt für Mikrotechnik Mainz (IMM), one of the leading European research centers in microfluidics, and their partners within the European Sixth...

From IMEC 6 Oct 2009

Summit Focuses on Environmentally Responsible Development of Nanotechnology

The Research Triangle Environmental Health Collaborative (The Collaborative) will gather 150 experts from around the nation at its second annual environmental health summit on October 8-9, 2009. The summit will be held at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park and focus on Environmentally Responsible Development of Nanotechnology.

6 Oct 2009

UC Awarded Grant to Improve Solar Technology

For years, University of California, Merced, professor David Kelley's research has focused on finding a less expensive method to harness and use solar energy. While the sun has been used to power small devices su...

6 Oct 2009

New Molecule that can Travel into Cells, Deliver Genetic Cargo, and Packs a Beacon

Theresa M. Reineke, associate professor of chemistry in the College of Science, and colleagues in her lab at Virginia Tech and at the University of Cincinnati have developed a new molecule that can travel into cells, deliver genetic cargo, and packs a beacon so scientists can follow its movements in living systems.

6 Oct 2009

Researchers Simulate Dynamics of Quark-Gluon Plasma

High-energy heavy ion collisions, which are studied at RHIC in Brookhaven and soon at the LHC in Geneva, can be a source of light flashes of a few yoctoseconds duration (a septillionth of a second, 10-24 s, ys) - the time that light needs to traverse an atomic nucleus.

6 Oct 2009

Chipworks Releases Detailed Technology Analysis of Intel's 32 nm "Westmere" Process

Today Chipworks announced the availability of the first detailed technology analysis of Intel's 32 nm "Westmere" process. The full suite of reverse engineering analysis includes a Structural Analysis Report, a Transistor Characterization Report, and a Packaging Analysis Report.

6 Oct 2009

One-Day Gathering of Experts and Others Interested in Nanotechnology

NanoConference, a one-day gathering of experts and others interested in nanotechnology, will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 19 in Wake Forest University's Bridger Field House at BB+T Field on Deacon Boulevard. ...

6 Oct 2009

Nanotechnology News

AIXTRON Founder Recognized for Contribution to Semiconductor Industry

Project Demonstrates that Silicon Nanowire Synthesis can be CMOS-Compatible

Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies to Participate in Russian Venture Fund

AZUR SPACE Solar Power Qualifies Veeco TurboDisc Arsenic Phosphide MOCVD System

New Paper on Piezo Actuator Lifetime and Reliability Now Available from PI

MIT-Harvard CCNE Collaborator Awarded with Nobel Prize in Medicine

Cymer Appoints New Member to its Board of Directors

IMEC and TSMC Joining Forces to Bring Novel Technology Solutions to Emerging Markets

IMEC Announces Breakthrough in Lab-on-Chip for Fast Cancer Detection and Therapy

Summit Focuses on Environmentally Responsible Development of Nanotechnology

UC Awarded Grant to Improve Solar Technology

New Molecule that can Travel into Cells, Deliver Genetic Cargo, and Packs a Beacon

Researchers Simulate Dynamics of Quark-Gluon Plasma

Chipworks Releases Detailed Technology Analysis of Intel's 32 nm "Westmere" Process

One-Day Gathering of Experts and Others Interested in Nanotechnology

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