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RF MEMS Tuning Solution Provider Closes $7 Million Funding Round

Cavendish Kinetics, the leading provider of high-performance RF MEMS tuning solutions for mobile and wearable devices, today announced the closing of a $7 million funding round as well as the appointment of Gilles Delfassy to its board of directors. The round was co-led by Tallwood Venture Capital and Wellington Partners, with participation from Qualcomm Ventures and other existing investors.

13 Nov 2014

OCSiAl Builds Worldwide Partnership Network

OCSiAl, developer of the revolutionary material TUBALL, is now focused on creating a worldwide partnership network. Facing a growing worldwide demand for new materials and solutions on one side, and a great interest of i...

From OCSIAL Group 12 Nov 2014

Charged Gold Nanoparticles Improve Residence Time of Molecules in Nanopores

A research team headed by a professor from Virginia Commonwealth University has succeeded in improving a method used for determining the charge, size and shape of water-soluble molecules. Joseph Reiner, Department of Physics, Assistant professor of experimental nanoscience in the College of Humanities and Sciences and his co-workers have enumerated their discovery in an article "Enhanced Single Molecule Mass Spectrometry Via Charged Metallic Clusters," to be published in the Analytical Chemistry journal.

12 Nov 2014

Researchers Grow Forests of Carbon Nanotubes Directly on 3-D Substrates

A team of University of Maryland researchers is growing vertically aligned “forests” of carbon nanotubes on three-dimensional (3-D) conductive substrates to explore their potential use as a cathode in next-gen lithium batteries.

12 Nov 2014

Researchers Determine Authenticity of Ancient Artifacts Using nanoSEM

Geologist Timothy Rose of the Smithsonian Institution’s Analytical Laboratories is accustomed to putting his lab’s high-tech nanoscale scanning electron microscope (nanoSEM) to work evaluating the mineral composition of rocks and meteorites. Lately, though, the nanoSEM has been enlisted for a different kind of task: determining the authenticity of ancient Mesoamerican artifacts.

12 Nov 2014

Forecast Report on Global Markets for Stretchable Electrics and Electronics

Stretchable electronics concerns electrical and electronic circuits and combinations of these that are elastically or inelastically stretchable by more than a few percent while retaining function.

12 Nov 2014

STMicroelectronics Announces Open.MEMS Licensing to Boost Time-to-Development

STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, the world's top MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) manufacturer and the leading supplier of MEMS for consumer and mobile as well as automotive applications, today announced its Open.MEMS program to boost time-to-development with quick and easy single-node evaluation licensing.

From STMicroelectronics 12 Nov 2014

EPFL Professor Recognized for Advances in Molecular Spectroscopy

Majed Chergui is awarded the prestigious Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy & Dynamics of the American Physical Society.

12 Nov 2014

Researchers Create Powerful 3-D Microtube Platform to Study Neuron Growth

Tiny, thin microtubes could provide a scaffold for neuron cultures to grow so that researchers can study neural networks, their growth and repair, yielding insights into treatment for degenerative neurological conditions or restoring nerve connections after injury.

12 Nov 2014

Researchers Come Up with New Approach to Atomic Timekeeping

What time is it? The answer, no matter what your initial reference may be — a wristwatch, a smartphone, or an alarm clock — will always trace back to the atomic clock.

12 Nov 2014

New Report Analyzes Technologies and Opportunities in Graphene Markets

Graphene markets will grow from around $20 million in 2014 to more than $390 million in 2024 at the material level. The market will be split across many application sectors; each attracting a different type of graphene manufactured using different means.

12 Nov 2014

FDA Approves Titan Spine’s Next-Generation nanoLOCK Surface Technology

Titan Spine, a medical device surface technology company focused on developing innovative spinal interbody fusion implants, today announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Endoskeleton® line of interbody fusion implants featuring its next-generation nanoLOCKTM surface technology.

12 Nov 2014

New Theoretical Model to Tune Conductivity of Graphene Nanoribbons using Ultra-Short Pulses

Physicists have, for the first time, explored in detail the time evolution of the conductivity, as well as other quantum-level electron transport characteristics, of a graphene device subjected to periodic ultra-short pulses.

12 Nov 2014

Applied Materials Announces Collaboration to Develop Advanced Patterning Solution for Memory Devices

Applied Materials, Inc. today announced it collaborated with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and PSK Inc., a Korea-based leader in photoresist removal, to develop an advanced patterning solution for the manufacture of future generations of NAND and DRAM device designs.

From Applied Materials Inc. 11 Nov 2014

First Direct Observations of One-Dimensional Boundary Separating Two Different, Atom-Thin Materials

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have made the first direct observations of a one-dimensional boundary separating two different, atom-thin materials, enabling studies of long-theorized phenomena at these interfaces.

11 Nov 2014