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Scientists Devise New Type of Superconducting Circuit that Behaves Quantum Mechanically

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have devised a new type of superconducting circuit that behaves quantum mechanically - but has up to five levels of energy instead of the usual two. The findings are published in the August 7 issue of Science.

11 Aug 2009

New Nanotechnology Research May Lead to Production of More Efficient Solar Cells

Growing - and precisely aligning - microscopic, spear-shaped zinc oxide crystals on a surface of single-crystal silicon, researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology may have developed a method to make more efficient solar cells.

11 Aug 2009

Researchers Discover Tool Widely used in Nanoscale Imaging Works Differently in Watery Environments

Researchers in the United States and Spain have discovered that a tool widely used in nanoscale imaging works differently in watery environments, a step toward better using the instrument to study biological molecules and structures.

11 Aug 2009

Sustained and Reliable Information Processing Operations on Electrically Charged Atoms

Physicists at NIST have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically charged atoms (ions). The new work, overcomes significant hurdles in scaling up ion-trapping technology from small demonstrations to larger quantum processors.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 11 Aug 2009

Study Enables ASTM to Revise Guidelines for Nanoparticle Sizing in Solutions

As a result of a major inter-laboratory study, the standards body ASTM International has been able to update its guidelines for a commonly used technique for measuring the size of nanoparticles in solutions. The study, w...

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 11 Aug 2009

New Calibration Technique Improving Reliability and Stability of Microhotplate

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new calibration technique that will improve the reliability and stability of one of NIST's most versatile technologies, the microhotplate.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 11 Aug 2009

Ytterbium Giving Time Standards Community More Options in Development of Next-Generation Atomic Clocks

An experimental atomic clock based on ytterbium atoms is about four times more accurate than it was several years ago, giving it a precision comparable to that of the NIST-F1 cesium fountain clock, the nation’s civilian time standard, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report in Physical Review Letters.*

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 11 Aug 2009

Engineers for the First Time Control All Degrees of Particle's Motion

Scientists drew fittingly from Roman mythology when they named a unique class of miniscule particles after the god Janus, who is usually depicted as having two faces looking in opposite directions. For years, scientis...

11 Aug 2009

Researchers Develop New Laser Technique for Searching Unusual Isotopes

One single atom of a certain isotope of hafnium found on Earth would prove that a supernova once exploded near our solar system. The problem is how to find such an atom - among billions of others. Researchers at the Univ...

11 Aug 2009

University of Cambridge Department of Engineering Announces Winners of Photography Competition

A picture of the moment at which a vehicle which photographs deep-sea life was lowered into the murky depths for the first time has won this year's photography competition at Cambridge University's Department of Engineering.

11 Aug 2009

Solar Cell Manufacturing Capacity Expected to Grow 56 Percent in 2009

DisplaySearch, the worldwide leader in display market research and consulting and part of the NPD Group, is expanding its business to include solar market research. DisplaySearch has been tracking the solar industry sinc...

11 Aug 2009

Nanometrics Wins 2009 R+D 100 Award

Nanometrics Incorporated (Nasdaq:NANO), a leading supplier of advanced process control metrology systems used primarily in the manufacturing of semiconductors, solar photovoltaics and high-brightness LEDs as well as adva...

11 Aug 2009

Synthesis of Uniform, Unilamellar Vesicles by Means of Microfluidics

A team led by Shoji Takeuchi at the University of Tokyo (Japan) has now developed a simple, highly efficient method for the production of vesicles. As reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, it is based on microfluidic T junctions.

11 Aug 2009

Company Wins R+D 100 Award for Nanocrystal Solar Cell

The editors of R+D Magazine have named Solexant Corp., developer of third-generation ultrathin-film PV technology, a winner of its 47th Annual R+D 100 Awards for the most technologically significant products introduced i...

11 Aug 2009

Companies Hit Manufacturing Milestone Taking Advantage of 34nm NAND Process to Deliver 32-Gigabit Density

Intel Corporation and Micron Technology Inc. (NYSE:MU) today announced the development of a new 3-bit-per-cell (3bpc) multi-level cell (MLC) NAND technology, leveraging their award-winning 34-nanometer (nm) NAND process.

11 Aug 2009