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Wafer Level Chip Scale Packaging Forum to Participate in ESTC

The Wafer Level Chip Scale Packaging (WLCSP) Forum today announced it will participate in the 2nd Electronic System-Integration Technology Conference (ESTC) in Greenwich, London, UK, from September 1 through 4, 2008. For...

2 Sep 2008

"Lab on a Chip" to Improve Success of in Vitro Fertilization

In a finding that could boost the success rate of in vitro fertilization (IVF), researchers report development of a tiny "lab on a chip" to evaluate the fitness of embryos harvested for transfer. A report on the approach - which researchers describe as faster, easier, and more reliable than conventional embryo selection methods - is scheduled for the Sept. 1 issue of ACS' Analytical Chemistry, a semi-monthly journal.

1 Sep 2008

S.I.S. Surface Imaging Systems to be Called Bruker Nano After Acquisition

Bruker AXS GmbH announces the closing of its acquisition of S.I.S. Surface Imaging Systems GmbH, located near Aachen, Germany. S.I.S. develops, manufactures and distributes advanced atomic force/scanning probe microscopy...

1 Sep 2008

Physicists Who Discovered World's Thinnest Material have Scooped Major Award for Their Work

Professor Andre Geim FRS and Dr Kostya Noveselov of the Centre of Mesoscience and Nanotechnology have been awarded the prestigious Europhysics Prize for discovering graphene - and also their subsequent work to reveal its...

1 Sep 2008

IMEC to Develop High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells Using Plextronics' Materials and Inks

IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute and Plextronics, Inc., an international technology company specializing in printed solar, lighting and other organic electronics, signed an agreem...

From IMEC 1 Sep 2008

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