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FEI Releases New X-FEG Electron Source Module for Titan Family of S/TEMs

FEI Company, a leading provider of atomic-scale imaging and analysis systems, today released its new extreme field emission gun (X-FEG) electron source module for the Titan(TM) family of scanning transmission electron microscopes (S/TEMs). The new technology combines higher brightness - previously available only with more complex cold field emission - with the high, ultra-stable current of thermally-assisted field emission.

1 Sep 2008

Molecular Imaging to Play Key Role in Disease Detection and Therapy Response

Molecular imaging aims at the use of imaging probes to visualize specific cellular or sub cellular processes that occur before changes in morphology and function. This is highly relevant because impairments of such proce...

1 Sep 2008

Advent Solar Announces Industry's First Cell-to-Module Solar Architecture

Advent Solar, Inc., a manufacturer of innovative solar cells and modules, today announced the solar industry's first cell-to-module solar architecture -- Advent Solar(R) Ventura(TM) Technology. Ventura Solar Technolo...

1 Sep 2008

Bruker Further Extends Versatility of its Product Lines for the Nanoanalysis Markets

At the 14th European Microscopy Conference opening today, Bruker AXS Microanalysis announced the European launch of several new products and options for Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) based materials analysis. Th...

1 Sep 2008

Joint Effort to Develop New Materials for Plastic Photovoltaic Solar Panel

Quantumatica Srl, specializing in quantum optical effects and liaison with the academia R+D, has signed an agreement with a large American university for the development of a new polymer with photovoltaic properties suit...

1 Sep 2008

Zinc-Oxide Nanoparticles - Remarkable Breakthrough in Cancer Treatment

Boise State researchers have made a remarkable breakthrough in cancer treatment that may provide the "magic bullet" for the debilitating effects of chemotherapy. The interdisciplinary group of researchers a...

31 Aug 2008

Explosives Getting Little Greener and More Precise

Certain explosives may soon get a little greener and a little more precise. LLNL researchers added unique green solvents (ionic liquids) to an explosive called TATB (1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene) and improved the crystal quality and chemical purity of the material.

30 Aug 2008

Dunn Named Managing Director of Two Nanotechnology Centers

Robert M. Dunn, most recently the director of the Integrated Engineering and Business Practices Program in the University of Notre Dame's College of Engineering, has been named the managing director of the Center for Nano Science and Technology (NDnano) and the recently established Midwest Institute of Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND).

30 Aug 2008

Scientists Developed Simple Process for Mass Producing Molecular Tubes of Programmable Circumferences

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a simple process for mass producing molecular tubes of identical--and precisely programmable--circumferences. The technological feat may allow...

30 Aug 2008

Collaboration Aims to Find New Materials for Applications in Nanotechnology

A research team at the Ångström Laboratory at Uppsala University will be leading a collaborative project between the EU and India in theoretical materials science. The objective is to find new materials for app...

30 Aug 2008

Scientists Produced Image at the Highest Resolution Ever Achieved with X-Ray Light

A team of scientists from the Technische Universität Dresden (Germany) and the ESRF in Grenoble (France) has produced the image of an object at the highest resolution ever achieved with X-ray light. A 100-nanometre gold particle fixed on a substrate was reconstructed with 5 nanometre resolution.

30 Aug 2008

PTB's New Molecular Beam Epitaxy System Fabricates Semiconductor Layers of Highest Purity

In order to realize the electrical units of voltage, resistance and current with highest accuracy quantum effects in nano-circuits are nowadays used. Important prerequisites are extremely pure semiconductor layers where ...

29 Aug 2008

High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Images of Nanoscale Crystal Structures

X-rays from a synchrotron can produce incredible high-resolution three-dimensional images of nanoscale crystal structures.

29 Aug 2008

Researchers Revealed The Secret of Electron Heating in Low Temperature Plasmas

The secret of electron heating in low temperature plasmas has been discovered by the Bochum researchers at the Center of Excellence "Plasma Science and Technology" (CPST) at the Ruhr University - who have thereby found the answer to the question which has been puzzling scientists for decades of why particularly the electrons in such plasmas are so hot.

29 Aug 2008

LDK Solar to Supply Multicrystalline Solar Wafers to Hyundai Heavy Industries

LDK Solar Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of solar wafers, today announced that it has signed a seven-year contract to supply multicrystalline solar wafers to Republic of Korea-based Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd (H...

29 Aug 2008