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Large Aperture XY Piezomotor Stages Move Faster and Feature a Lower Profile

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. a leading manufacturer of nanopositioning and piezo-based precision motion-control equipment for bio-nanotechnology, photonics and semiconductor applications — introduces the new M-686 ...

13 Jul 2007

Hitachi High Technologies to Announce New Products at EMAG

Hitachi High Technologies will be making a number of new product announcements at the EMAG Exhibition, University of Glasgow, 3-7 September 2007. Details will be available on a new high resolution 300kV field emission TE...

13 Jul 2007

FEI Introduce Next Generation Cryo Sample Preparation Tool

FEI has introduced the next generation of its popular Vitrobot™ cryo sample preparation tool, the Vitrobot Mark IV. The Mark IV is an easy-to-use system that features a newly-designed touchscreen user interface ope...

13 Jul 2007

Molecular Switch For Advanced Electronics a Step Closer

The electronics industry believes that when it comes to circuits, smaller is better -- and many foresee a future where electrical switches and circuits will be as tiny as single molecules. Turning this dream into real...

11 Jul 2007

Electron and Ion Beam Imaging and Analysis Equipment North American Headquarters For Carl Zeiss SMT Moves To Peabody, Mass.

Carl Zeiss SMT Inc., a leading global provider of electron- and ion-beam imaging and analysis equipment and services, today announced that it has successfully moved its North American headquarters from Thornwood, N.Y. to...

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 10 Jul 2007

Electron Wave Means Electrons on the Surface of Some Metals Behave Like Water at the Surface of a Lake

New research led by University of New Hampshire physicists has proved the existence of a new type of electron wave on metal surfaces: the acoustic surface plasmon, which will have implications for developments in nano-op...

9 Jul 2007

Researchers Create Nano Wagon Wheels

It looks like a tiny wagon wheel: Scanning tunneling microscope images published in the journal Angewandte Chemie depict giant molecules with a diameter of 7 nm, whose “hub”, “spokes”, and “...

9 Jul 2007

Oxford Instruments Launch New TEM EDS Detector

Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis is pleased to announce the launch of a new 50mm2 Si(Li) TEM EDS detector for users who want to maximise solid angle or minimise counting time. Collection efficiency of the X-ray detecto...

5 Jul 2007

Nanosoccer Match to Take Place at 2007 RoboCup

Imagine a mechanical Pelé or David Beckham six times smaller than an amoeba playing with a “soccer ball” no wider than a human hair on a field that can fit on a grain of rice. Purely science fiction? Not...

3 Jul 2007

Evidence to Show How Light Can be Used to Control Nanomachines

Physicists at the University of California at Berkeley have produced images that show how light can control some of the smallest possible machines. By shining ultraviolet laser light on tiny molecules of azobenzene adher...

3 Jul 2007