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Advanced Semiconductor Metrology Equipment Boosted with Nanometrics Launch of Atlas XP Metrology System

Nanometrics Incorporated, a leading supplier of advanced metrology equipment to the semiconductor industry, today introduced the latest addition to its Atlas® metrology system platform, the Atlas XP. “We are...

4 Apr 2008

Carbon Nanotubes to be Used in New Thermoplastic Material

The excellent electrical conductivity and mechanical strength of Baytubes® carbon nanotubes were the decisive factors leading to a cooperation agreement on thermoplastics between Bayer MaterialScience AG and Clariant...

4 Apr 2008

Nanotechnology Enabled NanoBattery From mPhase Makes History

mPhase/AlwaysReady, Inc. successfully demonstrated the electronic activation of its revolutionary Smart NanoBattery in front of a live audience in NYC. This breakthrough in battery technology showed the ability to obt...

From MyPebble 4 Apr 2008

Veeco AFM to Probe Spintronics and other Small-Scale Electrical Measurements

The Veeco EnviroScope will be used by 'Unite mixte de Physique' (UMP), a joint laboratory between the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS) and Thales Group for cutting-edge research into spintronics and other small-scale electrical measurements.

3 Apr 2008

Panalytical Equipment Helps to Find Martian Rocks on Earth

Inspired by data sent from NASA robots on Mars, Dr. Ronald Peterson, Professor of Geology at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, has observed a new mineral species on Earth, and predicts that it also exists on Mars.

3 Apr 2008

Nanogen and Thermo Fisher Team Up on Molecular Biology Products for Genetic Experiments

Nanogen, Inc., developer of molecular-biology and rapid diagnostic products, and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, have entered into an agreement in which Thermo Fisher will be the exclu...

From Nanogen 3 Apr 2008

New Class of Materials Points to Practical Hydrogen Fuel Tanks for Cars

One of the key engineering challenges to building a clean, efficient, hydrogen-powered car is how to design the fuel tank. Storing enough raw hydrogen for a reasonable driving range would require either impractically high pressures for gaseous hydrogen or extremely low temperatures for liquid hydrogen. In a new paper researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) have demonstrated that a novel class of materials could enable a practical hydrogen fuel tank.

3 Apr 2008

Lasers Used to Super Cool and Trap Highly Magnetic Atoms

A research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland has succeeded in cooling atoms of a rare-earth element, erbium, to within two millionths of a degree of absolute zero using a novel trapping and laser cooling technique.

3 Apr 2008

Nanotechnology Reduces Cancer Drug Dose, Increases Effect on Tumors

Anyone facing chemotherapy would welcome an advance promising to dramatically reduce their dose of these often harsh drugs. Using nanotechnology, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have taken a step closer to that goal.

3 Apr 2008

Nanotechnology Help for Spinal Cord Injury with Nanoengineered Gel Promoting Nerve Growth

A spinal cord injury often leads to permanent paralysis and loss of sensation below the site of the injury because the damaged nerve fibers can't regenerate. The nerve fibers or axons have the capacity to grow again,...

3 Apr 2008

Solar Cell Wafer Deal Signed for 10 Year Supply

LDK Solar Co, a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers, today announced that it has signed a ten-year contract which is a blend of "Take or Pay" linked with market-based pricing to supply multicr...

3 Apr 2008

Veeco Sells Another Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition for Solar Cell Manufacture

Veeco Instruments Inc., announced today that Millenium Communication Co. Ltd. (M-Com) of Hsinchu, Taiwan has ordered a TurboDisc(R) E450(TM) arsenic phosphide (As/P) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) System for production of high-efficiency III-V compound multi-junction solar cells.

2 Apr 2008