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New Thin Film Metrology Tools for MEMS to be Launched at Semicon Europa 2008

PANalytical will launch new products and showcase its full range
of innovative X-ray metrology solutions on booth #144 at Semicon Europa 2008,
October 7-9, Stuttgart Trade Fair Centre, Germany.

2 Oct 2008

Small-Tech Veteran Joins Asylum Research as Executive Vice President

Small-tech veteran Monteith G. Heaton has recently joined Asylum Research as Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Asylum's line of atomic force and scanning probe microscopes (AFM/SPM).

From Asylum Research - An Oxford Instruments Company 1 Oct 2008

Team of German Researchers to Receive Honda Prize 2008

The Honda Foundation, co-founded by Soichiro Honda and his younger brother Benjiro Honda, and currently headed by Hiromori Kawashima, is pleased to announce the Honda Prize for the year 2008 will be awarded to a German team of researchers of electron microscopy led by Dr. Maximilian Haider, Dr. Harald Rose, and Dr. Knut Urban.

1 Oct 2008

ASML Reveals Roadmap Extending Semiconductor Manufacturing to 11 Nanometers and Beyond

ASML Holding NV (ASML) presents today at the 2008 International Symposium on Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) on recent achievements in its EUV lithography program and unveils a production system roadmap that suppor...

From ASML Special Applications 30 Sep 2008

Brandeis Researchers Use Advanced Scientific Techniques to Reveal How Gene Regulation Works

A novel Brandeis University study this week in PLoS Biology reports on some of the molecular gymnastics performed by a protein involved in regulating DNA transcription. Using state-of-the art tools, researchers observed ...

30 Sep 2008

SAIC-Frederick Awarded Follow-On Contract to Support National Cancer Institute

Science Applications International Corporation today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary SAIC-Frederick, Inc. has been awarded a follow-on contract by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to provide operations and ...

30 Sep 2008

Sun Pharma to Use FEI Cryo-Electron Microscopy for Nanoparticle Research

FEI Company, a leading provider of high-resolution imaging and analysis systems, announced today the installation of a solution based upon FEI's Tecnai(TM) Spirit cryo-transmission electron microscope (TEM) and three-dimensional (3D) tomography software at Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd., Mumbai, India. Sun Pharmaceutical will use FEI's 3D imaging solution for quality control of drug-loaded vesicles to speed up the development of new therapeutics.

29 Sep 2008

Agency to Equip Seven Field Offices with State-of-the-Art Technology for Analysis of Pesticides in Food Supply

Applied Biosystems Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has purchased seven of the company's 4000 QTRAP® Systems for the analysis of potential harmful pesticides in the U.S. food supply...

29 Sep 2008

Squeezing Light into Sub-Wavelength Spots

In a new study, physicists at the University of Toronto have invented a simple structure called a meta-screen, designed to focus light into tiny spots smaller than the wavelength of the photons in use. These sub-waveleng...

26 Sep 2008

Obtaining Protein Structures More Efficiently

The chances of obtaining crystals of sufficient quality and quantity to allow determination of three-dimensional protein structures using synchrotron radiation are significantly increased using a mix of robots geared to different crystallization techniques.

26 Sep 2008