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Radio Waves to Cool Atoms

Visible and ultraviolet laser light has been used for years to cool trapped atoms - and more recently larger objects - by reducing the extent of their thermal motion. Now, applying a different form of radiation for a sim...

17 Sep 2007

Compact Piezoelectric Amplifier Released for Space Constrained and OEM Applications

DSM is pleased to introduce the ultra-compact VF-90 linear piezoelectric amplifier for space-constrained and OEM applications. The product is a new addition to DSM's line of voltage follower linear amplifiers and off...

17 Sep 2007

Groundbreaking Tabletop Microscope to be Exhibited at WIRED’s NextFest

Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc. have announced that the company will exhibit the new TM-1000 Tabletop Microscope at the fourth annual WIRED NextFest™ 2007 event. The TM-1000 will be but one of the many inno...

13 Sep 2007

Patent Issued for Carbon Nanotube Based Transparent Electrodes

Unidym Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation, announced today that U.S. Patent No. 7,265,174 has been issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. With respect to transparent conductive f...

13 Sep 2007

New Precise and Efficient Nano Printng Technique Developed by IBM

IBM researchers in collaboration with scientists from the ETH Zurich have demonstrated a new, efficient and precise technique to “print” at the nanoscale. The method, which allows the scientists to place ...

12 Sep 2007

Scientists Develop New Nanolithography Technique For Drawing Nanosized Features

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new technique for nanolithography that is extremely fast and capable of being used in a range of environments including air (outside a vacuum) and liquid...

11 Sep 2007

Manipulating Atoms and Seeing The Results

In 1959, Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman presented a talk entitled “There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom. “ Feynman concluded that there was no physical reason why humans couldn't manipulate atoms....

7 Sep 2007

New Benchmarks in Precision Control of Jet Printing

By combining electrically induced fluid flow with nanoscale nozzles, researchers at the University of Illinois have established new benchmarks for precision control and resolution in jet-printing processes. “We ...

7 Sep 2007

Hexapod Six-Axis Precision Parallel Kinematics Systems, Positioners & Robots Featuring Sub-Micrometer Resolution

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P., a leading manufacturer of precision sensors and motion-control equipment for optics / photonics, nano / biotechnology, semiconductor and life science applications - offers a new brochure on ...

6 Sep 2007

Institute for Sustainable Nanoelectronics Launched

Computing researchers at Houston's Rice University and electronics specialists at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) today announced the formation of a $2.6-million Institute for Sustainable Nanoe...

6 Sep 2007