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ESI's AccuScribe 2112 System Help Enable Aggressive Production Ramp at AquaLite

Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: ESIO), a leading provider of world-class photonic and laser systems for microengineering applications, today announced that its AccuScribe 2112 system helped enable the aggres...

From Electro Scientific Industries (ESI) 10 Mar 2009

Nanotechnology Coated Brain Implants Could Improve Treatment for Deafness, Paralysis and Parkinson's Disease

Biomedical and materials engineers at the University of Michigan have developed a nanotech coating for brain implants that helps the devices operate longer and could improve treatment for deafness, paralysis, blindness, epilepsy and Parkinson's disease.

10 Mar 2009

Energenics Discloses Strategic Relationship with Cerion Energy

Energenics, a Singapore-based supplier of alternative energy solutions and technologies, has committed $500,000 to lead Cerion Energy's $4,000,000 Series B investment round. Closing of the B Round is scheduled for Ma...

10 Mar 2009

SME Offers DVDs and Conference on this Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Manufacturing technology is ever-changing, and the industrial revolution of the past, which heavily relied on the assembly line, is not the one of the present, which now relies on state-of-the-art processes. Nanotech...

10 Mar 2009

Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies Appointes New Managing Director

Mike Treder, executive director of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN - crnano.org), leaves that position effective March 9, 2009, to become managing director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technolo...

10 Mar 2009

Course Covers Essential AFM Topics that Biologists Need and Want to Learn About

Asylum Research, the technology leader in scanning probe/atomic force microscopy (AFM/SPM) announces its AFM in Biology Class to be held June 3 to June 5, 2009 in Santa Barbara, California.

10 Mar 2009

Study Finds Nanotube Structures Could Improve Electric Motors

New research from Rice University and the University of Oulu in Oulu, Finland, finds that carbon nanotubes could significantly improve the performance of electrical commutators that are common in electric motors and generators.

10 Mar 2009

LogicVision Announces Memory BIST and Repair Solutions for 45nm SOI Foundry Customers

LogicVision, Inc. (NASDAQ:LGVN), a leading provider of semiconductor built-in-self-test (BIST) and diagnostic solutions, today announced that IBM Corporation (NYSE:IBM) has included LogicVision's ETMemory(TM) memory ...

10 Mar 2009

STMicroelectronics' MEMS Enables Motion Sensing in Openmoko Mobile Handsets

STMicroelectronics (NYSE:STM), one of the world's leading semiconductor companies and the number one supplier of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) motion-sensing chips for consumer and portable applications, ha...

From STMicroelectronics 10 Mar 2009

First European Commission-Funded Initiative to Analyse Biomedical Informatics, Grid Technologies and Nanoinformatics

On 16 March next, the International Symposium on Research in Grid/Nano/Bio/Medical Informatics, called Bioinforsalud 2009, is to be held in Madrid. The symposium is organized by ACTION-Grid, the first European Commission...

10 Mar 2009

Ultra-Thin Chip Embedding for Wearable Electronics

At today's Smart Systems Integration Conference in Brussels (Belgium), technologists from IMEC and its associated laboratory at Ghent University present a new 3D integration process enabling flexible electronic systems with a thickness of less than 60 micrometer.

10 Mar 2009

AIXTRON Receives Order for MOCVD Tool from National Taiwan University

AIXTRON AG today announced that in the fourth quarter 2008 the National Taiwan University (NTU), based in Taipei City, Taiwan, ordered one Close Coupled Showerhead 3x2" wafer Research Platform MOCVD system. It will be used for research and development on GaN and related materials and devices and it will be delivered in the third quarter 2009.

From AIXTRON SE 10 Mar 2009