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Laser Technology Means More Efficient Thin Film Cells

Solar electricity has a future: It is renewable and available in unlimited quantities, and it does not produce any gases detrimental to the climate. Its only drawback right now is the price: the electric power currently being produced by solar cells in northern Europe must be subsidized if it is to compete against the household electricity generated by traditional power plants.

29 May 2009

Research Team Discover Non-Blinking Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory, University of Rochester, Cornell University and Eastman Kodak Company announces the discovery of non-blinking semiconductor nanocrystals. This discovery is an important step to the use of the nanocrystals in various practical devices ranging from low-threshold lasers to the solar cells and biological imaging and tracking.

29 May 2009

Researchers Decipher Chemical Mechanism that Occurs on the Surface of Automotive Catalytic Converter

The chemical mechanism that occurs on the surface of an automotive catalytic converter has been deciphered thanks to an observation speed record established by Frédéric Thibault-Strarzyk at the Laboratoire Cata...

28 May 2009

Potential Solutions to Critical Technical Issues on Bringing EUVL into High-Volume Manufacturing

Leading lithographers from North America, Asia and Europe will gather here July 13-17 for the 2009 International Workshop on EUV Lithography to discuss potential solutions to critical technical issues on bringing extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) into high-volume manufacturing.

28 May 2009

International Journal of Applied Glass Science to be Published by the American Ceramic Society in Partnership with Wiley-Blackwell

The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) announced today that it is launching of a major new, peer-reviewed scientific journal dedicated to glass research: The International Journal of Applied Glass Science (IJAGS).

28 May 2009

Team of Physicists and Engineers Demonstrate All-Fibre Quantum Logic

A team of physicists and engineers have demonstrated all-fibre quantum logic, where single photons are generated and used to perform the contolled-NOT quantum logic gate in optical fibres with high fidelity.

28 May 2009

Argonne Lab Physicist Wins 2009 Francis M. Pipkin Award

U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory senior physicist Zheng-Tian Lu has received the 2009 Francis M. Pipkin Award of the American Physical Society.

From Argonne National Laboratory 28 May 2009

Funding to Support Current and Pending Nanotechnology Development

Pixelligent Technologies, an emerging leader in developing nanotechnology applications, announced today it has closed on $2 million in new equity financing. Pixelligent is developing ground breaking applications in optic...

28 May 2009

Nanometrics Receives Follow On Order for Multiple Atlas Metrology Systems

Nanometrics Incorporated (Nasdaq:NANO), a leading supplier of advanced process control metrology systems used primarily in the manufacturing of semiconductors, solar photovoltaics and high-brightness LEDs, today announce...

28 May 2009

Revolutionary Production Solution that Simplifies the Manufacturing of Crystalline Solar Cells

Today, Oerlikon Systems (SWX:OERL) demonstrates for the first time SOLARIS, a revolutionary production solution that simplifies the manufacturing of crystalline solar cells. "The trick was to combine our vast experience on highly productive optical disc deposition equipment (CD/DVD/Blu-ray) as well as our leading nanocoating technology."

28 May 2009