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Researchers Demonstrate Breakthrough in the Quantum Control of Photons

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have recently demonstrated a breakthrough in the quantum control of photons, the energy quanta of light. This is a significant result in quantum computation, and could eventually have implications in banking, drug design, and other applications.

29 May 2009

Making Old Semiconductor Element into a Superconductive Material

Researchers in Germany have managed to make the old semiconductor element germanium into a superconductive material. The findings, published in the journal Physical Review Letters, have implications for nanoelectronics and the development of novel computers.

29 May 2009

The Future of Crystalline Silicon Module Manufacturing

Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic modules worldwide, today announced that its Chairman and CEO, Roger G. Little, ...

29 May 2009

How Wet Chemistry Can Increase PV Production Yields and Improve Efficiency

From July 14-16, 2009, Lotus Systems, a leading manufacturer in the use of chemical substances to optimize the production process for photovoltaics, semiconductors, and MEMS, will be participating for the first time in the Intersolar trade show in San Francisco, Moscone West Convention Center, 2nd Level, booth no. 8445.

From AP&S International GmbH 29 May 2009

Researchers are Invited to Join the Search for the Oldest Multiskan in Use

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has announced it is running a search for the oldest Thermo Scientific Multiskan microplate photometer in use. Scientists who believe they may be using t...

29 May 2009

Chiral Processes on Surfaces

Catalysts do function, despite the fact that not all the chemical reactions (and partial reactions) which occur are fully understood, including those which take place during the treatment of automobile exhaust.

29 May 2009

Laser Technology Means More Efficient Thin Film Cells

Solar electricity has a future: It is renewable and available in unlimited quantities, and it does not produce any gases detrimental to the climate. Its only drawback right now is the price: the electric power currently being produced by solar cells in northern Europe must be subsidized if it is to compete against the household electricity generated by traditional power plants.

29 May 2009

Applied Materials Largest Solar PV Modules Awarded IEC Certification

Applied Materials, Inc. announced today that the 5.7m2 solar photovoltaic (PV) modules produced by its SunFab Thin Film Line™, using both single and more advanced tandem junction technologies, were awarded International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) certification, validating their exceptional performance under extended outdoor exposure.

From Applied Materials Inc. 29 May 2009

Research Team Discover Non-Blinking Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory, University of Rochester, Cornell University and Eastman Kodak Company announces the discovery of non-blinking semiconductor nanocrystals. This discovery is an important step to the use of the nanocrystals in various practical devices ranging from low-threshold lasers to the solar cells and biological imaging and tracking.

29 May 2009

Researchers Decipher Chemical Mechanism that Occurs on the Surface of Automotive Catalytic Converter

The chemical mechanism that occurs on the surface of an automotive catalytic converter has been deciphered thanks to an observation speed record established by Frédéric Thibault-Strarzyk at the Laboratoire Cata...

28 May 2009

Potential Solutions to Critical Technical Issues on Bringing EUVL into High-Volume Manufacturing

Leading lithographers from North America, Asia and Europe will gather here July 13-17 for the 2009 International Workshop on EUV Lithography to discuss potential solutions to critical technical issues on bringing extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) into high-volume manufacturing.

28 May 2009

Engineers Designed Cells that Can Count and Remember Cellular Events

MIT and Boston University engineers have designed cells that can count and "remember" cellular events, using simple circuits in which a series of genes are activated in a specific order. Such circuits, which...

28 May 2009

International Journal of Applied Glass Science to be Published by the American Ceramic Society in Partnership with Wiley-Blackwell

The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) announced today that it is launching of a major new, peer-reviewed scientific journal dedicated to glass research: The International Journal of Applied Glass Science (IJAGS).

28 May 2009

Team of Physicists and Engineers Demonstrate All-Fibre Quantum Logic

A team of physicists and engineers have demonstrated all-fibre quantum logic, where single photons are generated and used to perform the contolled-NOT quantum logic gate in optical fibres with high fidelity.

28 May 2009

NanoKTN to Promote its Work at Europe's Key Events in Nanotechnology

The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN), one of the UK's primary knowledge-based networks for Micro and Nanotechnologies, today announced it will be promoting its work at two of Europe's key event...

28 May 2009