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Empa's Sharc25 Project Aims to Achieve 25% Efficiency with CIGS Thin-Film Solar Cells

The project is quite ambitious; it aims at an energy conversion efficiency in thin-film solar cells made out of copper indium gallium (di)selenide, or CIGS for short, of up to 25%, topping the previous best mark by over three percentage points.

29 Jun 2015

Digi-Key Electronics Announces Availability of SiTime's Programmed MEMS Oscillators

Global electronic components distributor Digi-Key Electronics, the industry leader in electronic component selection, availability and delivery, announced today that SiTime? industry-leading, MEMS oscillators are programmed, and available for shipment from Digi-Key with 24 hour lead times.

27 Jun 2015

Nanotechnology Company, Pro Bono Bio, Announces Launch of North American Operations

Pro Bono Bio, the world's leading nanotechnology company offering health and lifestyle products, has launched its North American operations with headquarters based in Toronto, Canada and secured US$15M in funding to accelerate the global launches of FLEXISEQ?and SEQUADERMA?as well as help fund its ambitious research and development programs that continue to place Pro Bono Bio at the forefront of nanotechnology healthcare development.

27 Jun 2015

UZH Research Team Discovers "Molecular Gate" Inside Nuclear Pores Using High-Performance Microscope

An active exchange takes place between the cell nucleus and the cytoplasm: Molecules are transported into the nucleus or from the nucleus into the cytoplasm. In a human cell, more than a million molecules are transported into the cell nucleus every minute.

27 Jun 2015

National Graphene Institute Hosts Workshop for Standardising Graphene

The National Physical Laboratory and The University of Manchester have collaborated by conducting the Graphene UK Standardisation Workshop at the National Graphene Institute (NGI) in order to guide commercial organisations with regards to graphene standardisation.

26 Jun 2015

Graphene Holds Promise as Sensitive Detector for Biological Molecules

Researchers from the HZB Institute for Silicon Photovoltaics have succeeded in accurately determining and controlling the thickness of an organic compound, which has been attached to a graphene layer. By this way, graphene could be used as a sensitive detector for biological molecules.

By Stuart Milne 26 Jun 2015

Nanotechnology Drug in Droplets for Painless Treatment of Secondary Blindness

The Mexican company "Medical and Surgical Center for Retina" created a way to transport drugs, in order to avoid risks and painful treatments in people with secondary blindness due to chronic degenerative blindness such as diabetic retinopathy and degeneration of the eye. The innovative formula results eliminates the need to administrate the drug by intraocular injection.

26 Jun 2015

New Lab-on-a-Chip System for Counting DNA Molecules

A team of scientists including PhD student Friedrich Schuler from the Laboratory of MEMS Applications at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) of the University of Freiburg has developed a method for dividing a DNA sample into thousands of tiny droplets.

26 Jun 2015

Earth's Daily Rotation Period Encoded in 10nm-Diameter KaiC Protein

A collaborative group of Japanese researchers has demonstrated that the Earth's daily rotation period (24 hours) is encoded in the KaiC protein at the atomic level, a small, 10 nm-diameter biomolecule expressed in cyanobacterial cells.

26 Jun 2015

ESI's Most Extensible Laser Micromachining Platform Delivers Efficient Manufacturing for Consumer Electronics

Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:ESIO), an innovator of laser-based manufacturing solutions for the micromachining industry, today introduced Jade? the new low-cost, high-volume-production laser micromachining platform.

From Electro Scientific Industries (ESI) 26 Jun 2015

Asian Customer Places Order for Mycronic FPS Mask Writer

Mycronic AB, has received order for an FPS mask writer within the multi purpose segment from a customer in Asia. The system is scheduled for delivery in mid-2016.

26 Jun 2015

Juniper Networks Introduces PTX1000 3Tbps Fixed Configuration Core Router with 28nm Chip

Juniper Networks, the leader in network innovation, today expanded its Converged Supercore?architecture with the introduction of the PTX1000, the industry? most compact 3 Tbps fixed configuration core router.

26 Jun 2015

X-FAB Introduces Cost-Efficient 180nm SOI Technology for Automotive, Industrial Applications

X-FAB Silicon Foundries, the leading More than Moore foundry, today announced the industry? first cost-efficient 180nm SOI technology for automotive and industrial applications that need to operate in harsh environments.

26 Jun 2015

Encapsulated, Nanobody-Targeted Drugs Cold Help Treat Sleeping Sickness

Sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, is caused by trypanosome parasites transmitted by tsetse flies and threatens millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. The disease is considered fatal if untreated, but as it affects mostly poor people in low-income countries, treatment options are limited.

26 Jun 2015

New Microscope to Study Optical Properties of Individual Nanoparticles

Nanomaterials play an essential role in many areas of daily life. There is thus a large interest to gain detailed knowledge about their optical and electronic properties. Conventional microscopes get beyond their limits when particle size falls to the range of a few ten nanometers where a single particle provides only a vanishingly small signal.

26 Jun 2015

Nanotechnology News

Empa's Sharc25 Project Aims to Achieve 25% Efficiency with CIGS Thin-Film Solar Cells

Digi-Key Electronics Announces Availability of SiTime's Programmed MEMS Oscillators

Nanotechnology Company, Pro Bono Bio, Announces Launch of North American Operations

UZH Research Team Discovers "Molecular Gate" Inside Nuclear Pores Using High-Performance Microscope

National Graphene Institute Hosts Workshop for Standardising Graphene

Graphene Holds Promise as Sensitive Detector for Biological Molecules

Nanotechnology Drug in Droplets for Painless Treatment of Secondary Blindness

New Lab-on-a-Chip System for Counting DNA Molecules

Earth's Daily Rotation Period Encoded in 10nm-Diameter KaiC Protein

ESI's Most Extensible Laser Micromachining Platform Delivers Efficient Manufacturing for Consumer Electronics

Asian Customer Places Order for Mycronic FPS Mask Writer

Juniper Networks Introduces PTX1000 3Tbps Fixed Configuration Core Router with 28nm Chip

X-FAB Introduces Cost-Efficient 180nm SOI Technology for Automotive, Industrial Applications

Encapsulated, Nanobody-Targeted Drugs Cold Help Treat Sleeping Sickness

New Microscope to Study Optical Properties of Individual Nanoparticles

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