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State of the Art in Medical Applications of Nanotechnology

On March 4 - 6, 2009, international experts will gather in Berlin for the NanoMed 2009 conference to discuss the state of the art in medical applications of nanotechnology. Medical and healthcare applications are the ...

9 Feb 2009

QDI 2010 Microspectrophotometer Enable Hard Disk Manufactures to Rapidly Detect Contamination

Trace amounts of organic and inorganic contaminants of hard disk components are extremely difficult to detect by current methods. Common techniques, such as inspection with optical microscopes will not show any of the contamination that is affect the products.

9 Feb 2009

Essential Introduction to Particle Physics with Coverage Ranging from Basics to Latest Developments

Research and Markets has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Particle Physics, 3rd Edition" to their offering. An essential introduction to particle physics, with coverage ra...

9 Feb 2009

SiliconBlue Technologies Announces Volume Shipments for 65nm SRAM-Based FPGAs

SiliconBlue Technologies today announced volume production shipments for its 65nm, SRAM-based FPGAs for handheld, ultra-low power applications. These include the iCE65L02, iCE65L04 and iCE65L08 devices with the balance of the family to follow in a few months.

9 Feb 2009

Leading ALD Systems Manufacturer Takes Part in Project Aiming at Increasing Efficiency of Solar Cells

Leading Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) systems manufacturer Picosun Oy, Finland, takes part in an EU funded research project aiming at dramatically increasing the efficiency of solar cells.

9 Feb 2009

Visualizing Cells in Three Dimensions

University of Washington researchers have helped develop a new kind of microscope to visualize cells in three dimensions, an advance that could bring great progress in the field of early cancer detection.

9 Feb 2009

Probabilistic Logic Allows Computer Chip to Run Faster

Leaving your mobile phone charger at home when you go for a two week long vacation may just be the norm one day as scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Rice University, United States, have successfu...

9 Feb 2009

Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Metal Oxide Arrays to Improve Lithium Battery Technology

Need to store electricity more efficiently? Put it behind bars. That's essentially the finding of a team of Rice University researchers who have created hybrid carbon nanotube metal oxide arrays as electrode mater...

9 Feb 2009

Pushing Carbon Nanotubes Close to Breaking Point Increases Current-Carrying Capacity

By pushing carbon nanotubes close to their breaking point, researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated a remarkable increase in the current-carrying capacity of the nanotubes, well beyond what was previously thought possible.

9 Feb 2009

Researchers Develop New Way to Direct Chemical Modifications to Specific Sites on Recombinant Proteins

A new way to direct chemical modifications to specific sites on recombinant proteins has been developed by Carolyn Bertozzi and her colleagues at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley.

9 Feb 2009

IMEC Matures its Flexible Radios in Deep Sub-Micron Digital CMOS

With the launch of its single-chip reconfigurable receiver achieving industry state-of-the-art performance, IMEC matures its flexible radios in deep sub-micron digital CMOS to ease the implementation of both the analog and the digital functionality into the same system-on-chip (SoC).

From IMEC 9 Feb 2009

IMEC Presents 60GHz Solution in 45nm Digital CMOS

At this week's International Solid State Circuits Conference, IMEC presents a 60GHz front-end receive chain, phase-locked loop and power amplifier in 45nm digital CMOS technology.

From IMEC 9 Feb 2009

LG Innotek Orders Four TurboDisc K465 GaN MOCVD from Veeco

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that LG Innotek Co., Inc., a global leader and technology innovator in electronic components, has ordered an additional four TurboDisc® K465™ gallium nitride (GaN) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Systems to make high brightness light emitting diodes (HB-LEDs). The orders were received in the fourth quarter of 2008.

9 Feb 2009

Dietary Supplements Made with Nanotechnology Raising Growing Concerns

An increase in the number of dietary supplements made with nanoparticles - so called "nanoceuticals" - is raising growing concerns about their potential for toxicity in the wake of little government oversight, ...

9 Feb 2009

Educational Forums to Focus on Accelerating Technology Innovations and Manufacturing Solutions

SEMATECH today announced the content of its 2009 SEMATECH Knowledge Series (SKS), a lineup of seminal public meetings designed to increase global knowledge and collaboration in key areas of nanoelectronics R+D.

9 Feb 2009