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Frost + Sullivan to Host Analyst Briefing on Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS) Solar Cells

Solar energy has been growing in importance as a green and non-polluting energy source. The global market potential remains significant with cost and affordability as the key barriers to adoption of solar energy being a viable energy source.

From Frost and Sullivan 16 Jun 2009

Innovation and Creativity in a Complex World

"The future path through cyberspace is filled with threats and opportunities, most of which cannot even be imagined today," says Gene Stephens, a member of the FBI Futures Working Group, the World Future Societ...

16 Jun 2009

3-D, Real-Time X-Ray Images May be Closer to Reality

Three-dimensional, real-time X-ray images of patients could be closer to reality because of research recently completed by scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a pair of Russian institutes. In a paper ...

16 Jun 2009

Winner of the First Photonics21 Student Innovation Award Announced

PhD Student Yannick Chassagneux is the winner of the first Photonics21 Student Innovation Award. Jan Ostoja-Ostaszewski, Member of the EU-Directorate Information Society and Media awarded Chassagneux the prize at the opening ceremony of the World of Photonics Congress in Munich on the 15 th June 2009.

15 Jun 2009

India's Nano Messiah Launches First Issue of Nano Digest

The one-stop source for information and news about Nano Technology - Nano Digest, an English monthly magazine hits the news stands. India's first magazine on Nanotechnology, Nano Digest is produced from Hyderabad. 'Nano Messiah', world's great scientist and Father of Indian Nanotechnology Prof. C.N.R. Rao just unveiled the inaugural edition.

15 Jun 2009

Project Will Enable Scientific Discoveries for the 21st Century

The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory announced today that it is beginning construction of the conventional facilities at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a project that will advance energy research for the nation and create hundreds of jobs for Long Island over the next several years.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 15 Jun 2009

New Paradigm of the Biocompatibility of Intravascular Devices

Robert S. Schwartz, MD, medical director of the Minnesota Cardiovascular Research Institute, Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, will describe the new paradigm of the biocompatibility of intravascular devices during his keynote presentation at the leading conference on materials for medical devices.

15 Jun 2009

Scientists Developing Methods to Assess Nanoparticle Distribution, Fate, and Toxicity in the Environment

Nanoparticles offer multiple benefits to society in areas such as medicine, energy production and conservation, and pollution clean-up. Because nanoparticles is a relatively new technology area, we need to understand the...

15 Jun 2009

iTi Corp to Present at Nano Renewable Energy Summit

iTi Corporation, is recognized as a worldwide expert in high precision industrial inkjet systems, today announced that board member, John Spiers, will be a featured speaker at the Nano Renewable Energy Summit, held June ...

15 Jun 2009

Epeius Biotechnologies' Rexin-G is the World's Smallest Hero

Imagine if you will, a tiny particle that can travel freely within the human body seeking out cancerous tissues and metastatic tumors that have spread far and wide.

15 Jun 2009

Taiwan DRAM Manufacturer Orders All-Surface Inspection System for Front-End Manufacturing Process Control

Rudolph Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: RTEC), announced today the sale of its Explorer® Inspection Cluster to a major memory manufacturer in Taiwan. The Explorer is a new multi-surface inspection system designed to deliver fast, accurate and reliable macro defect inspection at a low cost of ownership.

From Onto Innovation 15 Jun 2009

Soitec's 300mm Ultra-Thin SOI Wafer Platform Ready to Support FD Device Applications

The Soitec Group (Euronext Paris), world's leading innovator and provider of the engineered substrate solutions that serve as the foundation for today's most advanced microelectronic products, announced today tha...

From The Soitec Group 15 Jun 2009

Carbon Nanotube-Based AFM Tips Promise Better Imaging

Carbon Design Innovations, Inc. (C|D|I) today announced the availability of two new atomic force microscope (AFM) probes types with carbon nanotube (CNT) tips. The CCHAR (carbon core high-aspect ratio) and CCHR (carbon core highresolution) CNT probes offer quantum improvements for AFM imaging, substantially improving results, reducing overall cost of operation and opening new avenues for research.

From Carbon Design Innovations 15 Jun 2009

Lowering the Cost of Fuel Cells with Carbon Nanotubes

The high cost of manufacturing fuel cells makes their large-scale production for power generation next to impossible, but researchers at Arizona State University are working to change that so cars, electricity and much more can run on the "green" technology.

15 Jun 2009

Cascade Microtech Announces Set of New Probes and Accessories for Tesla on-Wafer Power Device Characterization System

Cascade Microtech, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCD), a worldwide leader in the precise electrical measurement and test of integrated circuits (ICs) and other small structures, today announced a set of new probes and accessories for i...

From FormFactor 15 Jun 2009