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EVG Installs 500th Bond Chamber and 100th Automated Wafer Bonder for High Volume MEMS Manufacturing Environments

EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer-bonding and lithography equipment for the advanced semiconductor and packaging, MEMS, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and emerging nanotechnology markets, today announced it has suc...

5 Nov 2007

Public Discussion on Chinese Nanotechnology R&D and What it Means for Chinese Economic Growth

UC Santa Barbara’s Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS) and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) are inviting the Santa Barbara community to attend a casual public forum called “Nano-Meeter&rdquo...

5 Nov 2007

NanoDynamics Inc. to Investigate Intellectual property Partnerships in the Nanotechnology Sector

NanoDynamics Inc. announced today it has established an agreement with Greenberg Traurig, LLP to investigate intellectual property (IP) partnerships in the nanotechnology sector. The agreement expands NanoDynamics&...

2 Nov 2007

Micromen MRAM Production a Step Closer to Commercialisation

Micromem and Global Communication Semiconductors, Inc. (GCS) have successfully patterned and processed our own magnetic yoke design. This is significant in that this production- level process produced an extremely clean ...

2 Nov 2007

New iDrive Atomic Force Microscopy Accessory Allows Simpler AFM Fluid Imaging

Asylum Research, a manufacturer of advanced Atomic Force Microscopes (AFMs), introduces the iDrive cantilever holder. This new microscope accessory simplifies AFM fluid imaging and allows auto-tuning of cantilevers...

2 Nov 2007

ORNL's Ho Nyung Lee Cited as Top Early Career Scientist

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher Ho Nyung Lee is one of eight Department of Energy scientists to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The award, one of the nation&...

2 Nov 2007

Teneo Micro Instruments Launches Low Cost, Precision Microtools for Life Sciences and MEMs Applications

Teneo Micro Instruments LLC, an IP2Biz company, announced the launch of the Teneo TM70xx line of mechanically actuated microtools. The tool set, created by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, offers a div...

2 Nov 2007

Biomedical and Security Applications for Ultrasmall, Ultrasensitive Sensors

A tiny sensor that can detect magnetic field changes as small as 70 femtoteslas-equivalent to the brain waves of a person daydreaming-has been demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Th...

2 Nov 2007

Researchers Control Electron Spin With Electronic Field

Researchers at the Delft University of Technology’s Kavli Institute of Nanoscience and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) have succeeded in controlling the spin of a single electron merely by u...

2 Nov 2007

Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers

Twenty young scientists from among those taking part in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) have received an additional distinction as winners of Presidential Ear...

2 Nov 2007

Supercomputers to Lead to Greater Safety and Reliability of Next Generation Nuclear Power Reactors

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is leading a $3 million research project that will pair two of the world’s most powerful supercomputers to boost the safety and reliability of next-generation nuclear power reactors...

2 Nov 2007

Heavier Atoms Vibrate at Lower Frequencies and Reduce Friction at the Nanoscale

A research team led by a University of Pennsylvania mechanical engineer has discovered that friction between two sliding bodies can be reduced at the molecular, or nanoscale, level by changing the mass of the atoms at th...

2 Nov 2007

White Paper Released on OLED Lighting

NanoMarkets, an industry analyst firm based here has published a new white paper that discusses the market opportunities for OLED lighting. The paper was drawn from a report released in Q3 of 2007. The paper can be downl...

2 Nov 2007

Nanotech Knowledge Gap Needs to be Bridged Sooner Rather than Later

Want to buy a bag of carbon nanotubes-in quantities from a few grams to hundreds of kilograms (100 kilograms = approximately 220 pounds)? With a credit card and Internet access, you can. But is the U.S. government doing ...

2 Nov 2007

Veeco Wins Contract to Supply Two Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition Systems

Veeco Instruments Inc., announced today that two recently purchased TurboDisc(R) E450(TM) As/P Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) Systems are being used by Xiamen Sanan OptoElectronics of Xiamen, China to ex...

1 Nov 2007