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World's Smallest Devices Carved With Electron Beam

Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania are using a new technique to craft some of the tiniest metal nanostructures ever created, none larger than 10 nanometers, or 10,000 times smaller than the width of a single hu...

19 Jun 2007

Transistor Performance Boosted With New Low Cost 45 Nanometer Fabrication Method

Renesas Technology Corp. has announced the development of an extremely high-performance transistor technology with low-cost fabrication capability for microprocessors and SoC (system-on-a-chip) devices of the 45-nm (nano...

19 Jun 2007

New Executives Appointed To BioForce Nanosciences

BioForce Nanosciences Holdings, Inc. announced today Mr. Kerry Frey's appointment as President in addition to his Chief Operating Officer (COO) position, and Gregory Brown’s appointment as Executive Vice Presid...

19 Jun 2007

Natural Protein Clean Up of Nanoparticles May Lead To Environmental Remediation

Deep inside a flooded mine in Wisconsin, scientists from several institutions including the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered a world in which bacteria e...

19 Jun 2007

Nanoparticle Treatment For Glaucoma May Stop Millions Going Blind

A unique nanoparticle made in a laboratory at the University of Central Florida is proving promising as a drug delivery device for treating glaucoma, an eye disease that can cause blindness and affects millions of people...

19 Jun 2007

Nanotube Based Adhesive Stickier Than A Gecko's Foot

Mimicking the agile gecko, with its uncanny ability to run up walls and across ceilings, has long been a goal of materials scientists. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Akron have take...

19 Jun 2007

Calculations with Quantum Bits Bring Quantum Computing A Step Closer

Researchers at Delft University of Technology have succeeded in carrying out calculations with two quantum bits, the building blocks of a possible future quantum computer. The Delft researchers are publishing an article ...

18 Jun 2007

Reactivity of Nanosystems at the Atomic Level

Nickel-rhodium nanowires exhibit surprisingly high reactivity towards oxygen. As a result, they offer future development potential for new types of chemical catalysts. These findings were the result of research by an Aus...

18 Jun 2007

Novel Nanomachining Process for Nanoscale Devices

Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have discovered a novel nanomachining process that will help manufacturers produce superior nanoscale devices to perform import...

18 Jun 2007

Tegal Receive Order for Aluminum Nitride PVD System

Tegal Corporation, a leading designer and manufacturer of plasma etch and deposition systems used in the production of integrated circuits, MEMS, and nanotechnology devices, today announced that it has received an order ...

From Collabrx, Inc. 18 Jun 2007

Microcantilevers and Nanocantilevers - A Review of the Technology and Applications

Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) have come into existence only in the last decade. Microcantilevers are the most simplified MEMS based devices. They are of significant interest as they have potential applications in...

18 Jun 2007

Veeco Release New Innova Scanning Probe Microscope SPM

Veeco Instruments Inc., the world's leading provider of atomic force microscopes (AFMs) for research applications, announced today the release of its new Innova Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM) for a wide range of phy...

15 Jun 2007

Pulsed Laser Used to Inject Individual Cells with Specific Materials

Specialized pulsed lasers have been used to inject individual cells with a variety of materials, but little is known about how this type of injection might affect living cells. For the first time, researchers at Renssela...

15 Jun 2007

Nanotech Briefs Announce Winners of 3rd Annual Top 50 Awards

Nanotech Briefs magazine has announced the winners of its third annual Nano 50(TM) awards competition, which recognizes the top 50 technologies, innovators, and products that have significantly impacted, or will impact, ...

15 Jun 2007

New Sub-Atomic Particle

The discovery was made by physicists of the DZero experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill. Discovery and measurement of the particle's mass will provide...

15 Jun 2007