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OE-A Announces New and Expanded Roadmap for Organic and Printed Electronics

Initial products based on organic electronics - thin, light-weight, flexible, and inexpensive to produce - are already on the market. The Organic Electronics Association - OE-A, the leading international industry associa...

4 Jun 2009

NanoMaterials09 Announces 6 New Exhibitors

Despite training and travelling budgets being withheld, NanoMaterials09 proves to be THE event to attend this year with 6 new exhibitors announced this week, an unrivalled programme line-up and more than 130 attendees co...

4 Jun 2009

JPK Instruments Announce New Accessory for its NanoWizard Product Line

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, is pleased to announce a new accessory for its NanoWizard® product line.

From Bruker BioAFM 4 Jun 2009

Thermo Fisher Announces Collaboration Between BRIMS Center and NextGen Sciences

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., is the world leader in serving science, enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer, today announced a collaboration between its Biomarker Research Initiatives in ...

4 Jun 2009

Malibu Launches World's First Green Thin-Film Solar Module Factory

Delivering a major step forward in sustainable solar power, Malibu today launched the world's first thin-film solar module factory that completely eliminates the use of nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), a greenhouse gas wi...

4 Jun 2009

Materials Scientists Successfully Map Polycrystalline Structures on a Nanoscale

Carnegie Mellon University's Katayun Barmak, with the help of Microscopy Lab Supervisor Thomas Nuhfer, is one of the first materials scientists worldwide to successfully map polycrystalline structures on a nanoscale.

4 Jun 2009

The Smallest Silicon-Based Thin-Film Transistors Ever Made

SVTC Technologies, a leading independent company providing technology development and commercialization services to global clients, has partnered with startup Schiltron Corporation to produce the smallest silicon-based thin-film transistors ever made, with 48 nm gate length and 35 nm channel thickness.

4 Jun 2009

Tera Probe Qualifies ESI's New Tailored Pulse Dual-Beam Laser System For 68nm DRAM Repair

Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq:ESIO), a leading provider of world-class photonic and laser systems for microengineering applications, today introduced its Model 9850 Tailored Pulse(TP) Laser Link Processing ...

From Electro Scientific Industries (ESI) 4 Jun 2009

Novel Route to Fabricate Fluorescent Nanoparticles from Diamond Microcrystals

The laboratory " Structure - Activité of Normal + Pathologic Biomolecules - SANPB ", Inserm / UEVE U829 (Genopole Evry, France) in collaboration with the Material Centre of Mines-ParisTech (Evry, France), ...

4 Jun 2009

Nano-Device Could Be Used for Highly Sensitive Force Detection, Optical Communications and More

Physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a nanoscale device that can be used for force detection, optical communication, and more. The device exploits the mechanical properties of light to create an optomechanical cavity in which interactions between light and motion are greatly strengthened and enhanced.

4 Jun 2009

Nano-Hairs on Gecko Toes Reveal New Insights into Fundamental Nature of Friction and Adhesion

n a new research paper published in the Royal Society journal Interface, biology professor Kellar Autumn from Lewis + Clark College shows how the nano-hairs on gecko toes can reveal new insights into the fundamental nature of friction and adhesion.

4 Jun 2009

Improving Performance of Laser with Nanoparticles

"Light scattering" and "optical performance" are two concepts that usually head in opposite directions, but they have recently been shown to walk happily hand-in-hand. The results are impressive laser output from some new composite materials and the potential for making commercially viable solid-state dye lasers.

4 Jun 2009