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Modelling the Atomic and Void Structures of Amorphous Materials

Researchers have accurately identified tools that model the atomic and void structures of a network-forming elemental material. These tools may revolutionize the process of creating new solar panels, flat-panel displays, optical storage media and myriad other technological devices.

14 Oct 2008

SiOnyx and Harvard University to Commercialize Black Silicon

Harvard University's Office of Technology Development (OTD) and SiOnyx, Inc. today announced that SiOnyx has exclusively licensed Harvard's portfolio of black silicon patents. Black silicon, a novel laser imp...

From Nano-Terra 14 Oct 2008

Harvesting Renewable Energy by Incorporating Science into Nanotechnology

More powerful than wind farms, more efficient than solar panels and more practical and aesthetically pleasing than both. Solar Botanic is a company which harvests the energy of the sun and wind by incorporating estab...

14 Oct 2008

Micron Technology Strengthens Partnership With Nanya Technology Corporation

Micron Technology, Inc., today announced that it is expanding its partnership with Nanya Technology Corporation and signing a definitive agreement to acquire Qimonda AG's 35.6 percent ownership stake in Inotera Memor...

From Micron Technology, Inc. 14 Oct 2008

Signet Solar Begins Volume Production of Silicon Thin Film PV Modules

Signet Solar, a global manufacturer of thin film silicon photovoltaic (PV) modules, today announced that it has begun volume production at its manufacturing facility in Mochau, Germany, after receiving Final Acceptance T...

14 Oct 2008

Researcher Looks For Ways to Kill Cancer Cells using Nanotechnology

Physics Professor Diandra Leslie-Pelecky brought more with her when she arrived at UT Dallas than expertise in nanotechnology and shiny behemoth lab equipment. She brought an award for $84,000 from the National Institutes of Health via the Cleveland Clinic.

14 Oct 2008

EV Group Ships 100th Nanoimprint Lithography System

EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced it has shipped its 100th nanoimprint lithography (NIL) system. The mil...

From EV Group 14 Oct 2008

Toshiba Licenses IMEC Technology for Designing Power-Efficient, Flexible Processors

IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute today announced that Toshiba, world-leading integrated device manufacturer, has licensed IMEC technology for designing power-efficient, flexible p...

From IMEC 14 Oct 2008

Oxford Instruments Revolutionizes EDS with New X-Max Silicon Drift Detector

Once again, Oxford Instruments has revolutionized EDS! Its new X-Max Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) now provides electron microscopists with the biggest area detector ever - over TEN times the solid angle of conventional EDS detectors.

From Oxford Instruments plc 14 Oct 2008

Researchers Write Nanoscale Protein Arrays Using a Nanofountain Pen and Electric Fields

Nanotechnology offers unique opportunities to advance the life sciences by facilitating the delivery, manipulation and observation of biological materials with unprecedented resolution. The ability to pattern nanoscale a...

14 Oct 2008

Award-Winning Technology Could Speed Adoption of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles

ExxonMobil Chemical announced today that it has received a leading industry innovation award for its battery separator film technology. The technology, pioneered by a team of ExxonMobil scientists led by Dr. Pat Bran...

13 Oct 2008

Brookhaven Lab Physicist Awarded Robert R. Wilson Prize

Satoshi Ozaki, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been selected as the recipient of the American Physical Society's 2009 Robert R. Wilson Prize.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 13 Oct 2008

IMEC Announces Significant Progress with 3D-SIC Technology

IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute today announced that it has made significant progress with its 3D-SIC (3D stacked IC) technology.

From IMEC 13 Oct 2008

Student Entrepreneurs Win Top Prizes at UC Berkeley Venture Competition

Eighteen semifinalist teams competed on the UC Berkeley (UCB) campus October 2 for four first prizes, each including $10,000 cash, $2,000 in supplies, mentoring from experts, and a space in the new Venture Lab housed in ...

13 Oct 2008

Kiel University Researchers Report Sequence-Dependent Effects of Light on DNA

DNA, the molecule that acts as the carrier of genetic information in all forms of life, is highly resistant against alteration by ultraviolet light, but understanding the mechanism for its photostability presents some puzzling problems.

13 Oct 2008