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Department of Energy Advances National Synchrotron Light Source-II (NSLS-II) Project

The Department of Energy (DOE) has granted "Critical Decision 1" (CD-1) status to the National Synchrotron Light Source-II (NSLS-II). This decision, which assures the facility's location at DOE's Brookh...

19 Jul 2007

US Navy Academy to Acquire 50 Robotis Bioloid Humanoid Robot Kits from KumoTek

Humanoid robot vendor KumoTek, LLC, has been awarded a contract to provide 50 Robotis Bioloid humanoid robot kits to the U.S. Naval Academy. The Bioloid is a versatile robot kit capable of being configured into numerous ...

19 Jul 2007

Entegris Sets New Standard for Nanoparticle Contamination Control in Wet Etching of Semiconductors

Entegris is setting the new standard for liquid contamination control of nano-scale particles in wet etch and clean (WEC) manufacturing processes used in advanced semiconductor applications with the launch of its Torrent...

From Entegris 19 Jul 2007

Yale Biomedical Engineer Creating Nanotech Drug Delivery with L’Oreal USA Award

Kim Woodrow, a postdoctoral fellow in biomedical engineering at Yale, is one of the five American women recently honored by L'Oréal USA with their 2007 Fellowships for Women in Science. Woodrow is developing ...

18 Jul 2007

Metryx Wins Multi-System Mentor Order from Research Consortium

Metryx Limited, a supplier of mass metrology equipment to the semiconductor manufacturing industry, today announced that it has received orders from a major research consortium for its Mentor SF3 300 mm tool and Mentor O...

18 Jul 2007

Nanogen Begins Shipment of Congestive Heart Failure Product

Nanogen, Inc., developer of advanced diagnostic products, announced today that it has begun shipment of its congestive heart failure (CHF) product, the StatusFirstTM CHF NT-proBNP rapid test. The product is CE-marked and...

From Nanogen 18 Jul 2007

248 nm Lithography to Reach 80 nm Resolution

Carl Zeiss SMT AG announces its new lithography optical system Starlith® 1000 for KrF. The new system stands out with a numerical aperture (NA) of 0.93 which will be the highest NA for 248 nm exposure wavelength avai...

18 Jul 2007

Brewer, The First to Bring a Microelectronic Grade Carbon Nanotube Coating to Market

Brewer Science, a trusted provider of leading-edge materials and processes to the semiconductor industry, announces the commercial availability of the first microelectronicsgrade carbon nanotube (CNT) coating. A breakthr...

From Brewer Science Inc. - Specialty Materials 18 Jul 2007

Carl Zeiss SMT Ships World’s First ORION™ Helium Ion Microscope to U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology

Carl Zeiss SMT Inc., a leading global provider of electron- and ion-beam imaging and analysis equipment and solutions for nanotechnology applications, today announced that it has successfully shipped its first ORION&trad...

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 18 Jul 2007

Lumera Corporation Forms New Bioscience Subsidiary

Lumera Corporation, a leader in the emerging field of nanotechnology, today announced that it has formed a wholly owned subsidiary known as Plexera Bioscience LLC. The new subsidiary will serve as the operations unit of ...

18 Jul 2007

Integrated with “Smart” Fabrics, Biosensors Will Monitor Respiration Rate and Body Temperature in Real Time

Working with an organic semiconductor, electrical-engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have fabricated and tested two similar but slightly different biosensors that can measure important physiological si...

18 Jul 2007

Researchers Explore New Method For Early Disease Diagnosis

Purdue University researchers worked with the Indiana University School of Medicine to establish a technique that provides a new approach for detecting a number of genetic disorders found in infants and young children. ...

18 Jul 2007

Beyond A.I. - Creating The Conscience Of The Machine, The Future Implications For Artificial Intelligence

Known as the originator of the Utility Fog concept, Dr. J. Storrs Hall is regarded as one of the most significant thinkers in the field of molecular nanotechnology. In his new book Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of t...

18 Jul 2007

University Of Pennsylvania Engineers Discover Natural 'Workbench' For Nanoscale Construction

Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have taken a step toward simplifying the creation of nanostructures by identifying the first inorganic material to phase separate with near-perfect order at the nanometer scale...

18 Jul 2007

Interactive LED Coffee Table Brings Talking Point Technology To The Living Room

One of the areas that nanotechnology is making strong advances in is solid state lighting. Solid state lights are of interest due to their extremely high efficiency when compared with standard incandescent bulbs that los...

18 Jul 2007