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Phenom Electron Microscope from FEI so Easy to Use it is Childs Play

The Phenom from FEI is a high resolution desktop imaging tool with an optical camera for never-lost navigation and a high quality electron microscope for detailed imaging. Its innovative user interface and intuitive touc...

27 Nov 2007

Next Generation Solar Research to get $21million from Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman today announced that the Department will invest $21.7 million in next generation photovoltaic (PV) technology to help accelerate the widespread use of advanced s...

From Solexant 27 Nov 2007

Brilliant X-Ray Light Source Building to be Topped Out

DESY celebrates the topping-out ceremony for the experimental hall of PETRA III – the new source of especially brilliant X-ray light in Hamburg. On occasion of the structural completion of the building, German Rese...

27 Nov 2007

Completely Safe T-Rays Set to Replace X-Rays in Medical and Security Screening Applications

Going through airport security can be such a hassle. Shoes, laptops, toothpastes, watches and belts all get taken off, taken out, scanned, examined, handled and repacked. But "T-rays", a completely safe form of...

27 Nov 2007

Microfabrication of Semiconductors Using Classic Equipment from 1957

A 1957 classic sits in the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) clean room. It’s not a Chevy, but a Veeco vacuum evaporator more than six feet tall and five feet wide. $$IMAGE$$ The evaporator, still in use...

27 Nov 2007

High Performance Field Effect Transistors Made at Room Temperature with Thin Films of Carbon 60

Using room-temperature processing, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have fabricated high-performance field effect transistors with thin films of Carbon 60, also known as fullerene. The ability to produc...

27 Nov 2007

Ultrafast Electron Microscopy Reveals Light Switchable Nanochannels in Materials

Microscopic fissures in a tiny crystal open and close - on command. Researchers led by Ahmed H. Zewail successfully used ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM) to observe nanoscopic structures at their “exercises&rdqu...

27 Nov 2007

Trade in Program for Old Scanning Laser Vibrometer Systems

There are a large number of older Polytec PSV-100 and PSV-200 scanning laser vibrometer systems in daily use still giving good service, but increasingly, they are becoming more vulnerable with regard to servicing and rep...

26 Nov 2007

Scientists Worried by Health and Environmental Impacts of Nanotechnology

The unknown human health and environmental impacts of nanotechnology are a bigger worry for scientists than for the public, according to a new report published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. The new report was ...

26 Nov 2007

Patents Awarded for Innovative Semiconductor Production Equipment for the Manufacturing of Low Defect Nitride Semiconductor Materials

Technologies and Devices International, Inc. (TDI), a privately held Maryland corporation, announced today that it has been awarded a United States Patent, US 7,279,047 B2, the latest in a series of patents that cover ne...

23 Nov 2007