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Nanotechnology-Based Coating Allows Window Panes and Glass Doors to Detect Movements

It is 6 p.m. and the museum is closing down for the night. The building's alarm system is switched on and the security guard does his rounds. A novel motion sensor developed by the Fraunhofer Institutes for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam-Golm and for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIRST in Berlin could provide even more security in future, enabling window panes and glass doors to detect movements thanks to a special coating.

17 Mar 2009

Chinese Vice Premier Tours Applied Materials SunFab Solar Module Reliability Testing Facility

Applied Materials announced that Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang toured the company's state-of-the-art SunFab Solar Module Reliability Testing facility yesterday in Xi'an, China, and met with company executives to discuss the future prospects for solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity in China.

From Applied Materials Inc. 17 Mar 2009

Nano Memristor Leading to Smaller, Faster, Cheaper Computers

The memristor is a computer component that offers both memory and logic functions in one simple package. It has the potential to transform the semiconductor industry, enabling smaller, faster, cheaper chips and computers...

17 Mar 2009

Conference Bringing Colloid and Surface Science Researchers and Technologists Together

Two international scientific groups, the International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists and the American Chemical Society Division of Colloid and Surface Science, will come together June 14 - 19, 2009 at C...

17 Mar 2009

Jetronic Selects Planar's Thin Film Electroluminescent Display Glass for China Market

Planar Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLNR), a worldwide leader in specialty display solutions, today announced that its proprietary thin film electroluminescent (TFEL) display technology will be incorporated in industrial produc...

17 Mar 2009

Researchers Develop New Technique for Growing Slimmer Copper Nanorods

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new technique for growing slimmer copper nanorods, a key step for advancing integrated 3-D chip technology.

17 Mar 2009

Extracting Light from Semiconductors

Japanese Researchers have discovered the phenomenon that more than 50% of the spontaneous emission light generated in semiconductors with microscopic V-grooves is emitted into the air.

17 Mar 2009

Synthetic Biology - Transforming Cells into Microscopic Biological Computers

The roots of synthetic biology stretch back only eight years, and the discipline is so new that it does not yet have an established definition. On the one hand, it can be considered from a microscopic and fundamental perspective - to a certain extent more closely related to chemistry - as the synthesis of new, biologically important molecules (for example, nucleotides).

17 Mar 2009

NRC Scientist Wins Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal

Dr. Paul Corkum, a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Ottawa and attosecond science researcher at the National Research Council Canada (NRC), is this year's winner of Canada's most presti...

17 Mar 2009

Developer of Breakthrough Nanoscale Platforms for Biomedical Research Receives Phase II Grant from NHGRI

BioNanomatrix, Inc., a developer of breakthrough nanoscale platforms for biomedical research, molecular diagnostics and personalized medicine, today announced receipt of a Phase II grant from the National Human Genome Re...

17 Mar 2009

Imperial College London Opens New MAGIC Laboratory

Tackling climate change, combating pollution and developing a deeper understanding of Parkinson's disease are just some of the areas of research that will benefit from the official opening today of new laboratories at Imperial College London.

17 Mar 2009

AIXTRON Announces Delivery of Three MOCVD Systems to Chinese Company

AIXTRON AG today announced the delivery of three Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) CRIUS MOCVD systems for the production of Gallium Nitride (GaN) LEDs to Aqualite Co. Ltd., a company based in Wuhan, China. The three CC...

From AIXTRON SE 17 Mar 2009

Leading ALD Systems Manufacturer Opens New Lab, R+D and Production Facility

Leading Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) systems manufacturer Picosun Oy, Finland, has opened a new laboratory, R+D and production facility in Kirkkonummi, some 30 kilometres West of Helsinki city centre.

17 Mar 2009

Farfield to Join New Research Consortium Called "INTOPSENS"

Farfield are delighted to be invited to join a new research consortium called "INTOPSENS" combining leading research centres with industry across Europe. Intopsens will develop a highly integrated optical senso...

17 Mar 2009

Creating "Impossible Alloys" by Subjecting Atoms to High Pressure

Combining different metals could create alloy with properties superior to both metals, but that is not true of all metals. Recently an international research team discovered that previously impossible alloys can be creat...

16 Mar 2009