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Ascent Solar Achieves Significant Efficiency Milestone for Thin-Film CIGS Solar Modules

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTI), a developer of state of the art flexible thin-film solar modules, today announced that it has achieved greater than 9.5% efficiency for its flexible Copper, Indium, Gallium,...

3 Dec 2008

New Sales Director Tasked with Actively Pursuing Increased Sales of CVD Diamond Products

sp3 Diamond Technologies, Inc. (sp3), a leading supplier of diamond film products, equipment and services, today announced that it has brought in industry veteran William Peifer as its director of sales. Peifer is ta...

3 Dec 2008

Ecliptek Introduces New EMS4 Series of MEMS Based Spread Spectrum Programmable Clock Oscillators

Ecliptek Corporation announces the expansion of their EMS MEMS spread spectrum low EMI output surface mount oscillator, the EMS4 series.

3 Dec 2008

Report Examines How the MEMS Business is Boosting Thick-SOI Demand

The term thick-SOI refers to a semiconductor substrate with an active, single-crystal silicon layer whose thickness exceeds 1µm. It lies on a buried oxide which is set on top of a silicon wafer carrier. This struct...

3 Dec 2008

Technology and Society: Building Our Sociotechnical Future

Deborah G. Johnson, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, co-edited an anthology, "Technology and Society: Building Our Sociotechnical Future," with James M. Wetmo...

3 Dec 2008

NanoDynamics CEO to Present at First Nanotechnology International Forum

NanoDynamics, Inc. announced today that the company's CEO, Keith Blakely, will present at the first Nanotechnology International Forum on December 3-5 in Moscow, organized by the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO).

2 Dec 2008

Global Solar Energy Announces Full Operation of the World's Largest CIGS Thin-Film Solar Array

Global Solar Energy, a leading manufacturer of Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide (CIGS) thin-film solar cells, today announced the full operation of the largest solar electric array worldwide using CIGS photovoltaic (PV) ...

2 Dec 2008

ATMI Launches New Generation of Post-CMP Cleaning Solutions for 22 Nanometer Nodes

From the SEMICON Japan Conference -- ATMI, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATMI), today launched PlanarClean(tm), a new generation of post-Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) cleaning solutions specifically designed for advanced techno...

2 Dec 2008

Handheld Device that Finds Even Faint Signs of Cancer in Blood Sample

A team led by Stanford researchers has developed a prototype blood scanner that can find cancer markers in the bloodstream in early stages of the disease, potentially allowing for earlier treatment and dramatically improved chances of survival.

2 Dec 2008

Selah Technologies Receives SBIR Grant to Accelerate Commercialization of Selah Dots

Selah Technologies, an advanced materials manufacturer, announced today that the company has received a $100,000 SBIR Phase I grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund continued manufacturing and developme...

2 Dec 2008

System Enables Chip Manufacturers to Shrink Feature Sizes to 32 Nanometers and Beyond

ASML Holding NV (ASML) (NASDAQ:ASML) (Amsterdam:ASML) today announces at SEMICON Japan the first system based on its new NXT lithography platform. The TWINSCAN™ NXT:1950i provides the increased productivity and ext...

2 Dec 2008

Combining Computational and Wafer Lithography to Improve Semiconductor Manufacturability

ASML (NASDAQ:ASML)(Amsterdam:ASML) and its subsidiary Brion Technologies today announce LithoTuner™, a new suite of products that integrates computational and wafer lithography to improve semiconductor manufacturab...

2 Dec 2008

Physicists Constructed Micromachines using Same Trick Model Makers use to Get Ships into Bottle

Sometimes physicists resort to tried and trusted model-making tricks. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, the University of Stuttgart and the Colorado School of Mines have constructed micromachines using the same trick that model makers use to get ships into a bottle where the masts and rigging of the sailing ship are not erected until it is in the bottle.

2 Dec 2008

Nanotechnology Center for Collaborative Research and Development

The inauguration of the Nanotechnology Center for Collaborative Research and Development at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, including a symposium on Progress in Nanotechnology Research, will take place on Saturd...

2 Dec 2008

Nanobubble Sometimes Last for Hours: An Unexplained Phenomenon

The nanobubbles that develop on submerged surfaces should not really be able to exist. Because of the enormous internal pressure, they should disappear within a short time. Nevertheless, they sometimes last for hours: an unexplained phenomenon.

2 Dec 2008

Nanotechnology News

Ascent Solar Achieves Significant Efficiency Milestone for Thin-Film CIGS Solar Modules

New Sales Director Tasked with Actively Pursuing Increased Sales of CVD Diamond Products

Ecliptek Introduces New EMS4 Series of MEMS Based Spread Spectrum Programmable Clock Oscillators

Report Examines How the MEMS Business is Boosting Thick-SOI Demand

Technology and Society: Building Our Sociotechnical Future

NanoDynamics CEO to Present at First Nanotechnology International Forum

Global Solar Energy Announces Full Operation of the World's Largest CIGS Thin-Film Solar Array

ATMI Launches New Generation of Post-CMP Cleaning Solutions for 22 Nanometer Nodes

Handheld Device that Finds Even Faint Signs of Cancer in Blood Sample

Selah Technologies Receives SBIR Grant to Accelerate Commercialization of Selah Dots

System Enables Chip Manufacturers to Shrink Feature Sizes to 32 Nanometers and Beyond

Combining Computational and Wafer Lithography to Improve Semiconductor Manufacturability

Physicists Constructed Micromachines using Same Trick Model Makers use to Get Ships into Bottle

Nanotechnology Center for Collaborative Research and Development

Nanobubble Sometimes Last for Hours: An Unexplained Phenomenon

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