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First Nanostructures Ever Measured on Another Planet

For the first time ever, nanostructures have been measured on another planet. On July 9, the NASA Phoenix Mars Probe recorded images with nanometer resolution (one nanometer roughly corresponds to 0.00000004 inch) using its onboard Swiss-made atomic force microscope.

12 Jul 2008

SiGen’s Innovative Kerf-Free Wafering Equipment Moves into Pilot Line

Silicon Genesis, a leader in process and technology for engineered substrates announced today that it has successfully produced solar substrates for the PV industry using a revolutionary "kerf-free" wafering pr...

11 Jul 2008

Three Additional Languages are Available on Nano Risk Framework

In an effort to expand the global accessibility of the Nano Risk Framework, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and DuPont have released translations of the Framework in three additional languages - Mandarin, French and Spanish. (The Framework executive summary also is available in Portuguese.)

11 Jul 2008

New 266 nm Deep UV Fiber Laser Allows Operator to Define Energy Delivery Strategies

Deep Photonics Corp., an innovative technology company manufacturing deep ultraviolet fiber laser solutions for the semiconductor, electronics and photovoltaic marketplace, today announced the introduction of the FLP-266...

11 Jul 2008

Dyed-Glass Breakthrough Channels Energy into Solar Cells

Revisiting a once-abandoned technique, engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have successfully created a sophisticated, yet affordable, method to turn ordinary glass into a high-tech solar concentrator.

11 Jul 2008

Micro-Sized Sewing Machine to Sew Long Threads of DNA into Shape

Japanese scientists have made a micro-sized sewing machine to sew long threads of DNA into shape. The work published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Lab on a Chip demonstrates a unique way to manipulate delicate DNA chains without breaking them.

11 Jul 2008

Aviza Technology Receives Order from Advanced Logic IC Manufacturer in Japan

Aviza Technology, Inc., a supplier of advanced semiconductor capital equipment and process technologies for the global semiconductor industry and related markets, today announced that it has received an order for its Cel...

11 Jul 2008

Ultra-Sensitive Nano-Sized Infrared Light Detector

A newly developed nano-sized electronic device is an important step toward helping astronomers see invisible light dating from the creation of the universe. This invisible light makes up 98% of the light emitted since the "big bang," and may provide insights into the earliest stages of star and galaxy formation almost 14 billion years ago.

11 Jul 2008

Nanosurf Atomic Force Microscope Has Been Used on Mars by Phoenix Mars Lander

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has finally used the onboard atomic force microscope from Nanosurf. We show the first AFM image from Mars

11 Jul 2008

Building Components of Electronics Devices using Self-Organised NanoStructures

Confocal microscope image of a self-assembled monolayer of a polychlorotriphenyl methyl radical patterned on a quartz surface. This multifunctional molecule behaves as an electroactive switch with optical and magnetic re...

10 Jul 2008

One of the 100 Most Technologically Significant Innovations of the Year

WITec microscope technology has been selected as a winner of the prestigious 2008 R&D 100 Award. It honors the automated Confocal Raman and Atomic Force Microscope combination alpha500 as one of the 100 most technologically significant innovations of the year.

10 Jul 2008