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Tegal Ships Plasma Etch System to High Brightness LED Manufacturer

Tegal Corporation, a leading designer and manufacturer of plasma etch and deposition systems used in the production of integrated circuits, MEMS, and nanotechnology devices, today announced that it has shipped an additio...

From Collabrx, Inc. 8 Jun 2007

Particles of Light or Quantum Keys Sent 200km via Fiber Optic Link

Particles of light serving as “quantum keys” - the latest in encryption technology - have been sent over a record-setting 200-kilometer fiber-optic link by researchers from the National Institute of Standards...

5 Jun 2007

Nano-Terra to Commercialise More Than 50 Patents Licensed from Harvard University

Harvard University's Office of Technology Development (OTD) has licensed a broad portfolio of more than 50 issued and pending patents of nano- and micro-scale molecular fabrication methods developed by Professor George W...

From Nano-Terra 5 Jun 2007

Micromachines Remote Controlled Using Light

A research team led by Umar Mohideen, a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has demonstrated in the laboratory that the Casimir force (the small attractive force that acts between two close parallel unc...

5 Jun 2007

The Secret to Quantum Computing May be in Diamond

Surmounting several distinct hurdles to quantum computing, physicists at Harvard University have found that individual carbon-13 atoms in a diamond lattice can be manipulated with extraordinary precision to create stable...

5 Jun 2007

Physik Instrumente Introduce Motion Controller Enables Picometer Positioning Resolution

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 E-75...

From Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co KG 1 Jun 2007

Visualizing Pair Formation on the Atomic Scale in High-Temperature Superconductors

Recent discoveries regarding the physics of ceramic superconductors may help improve scientists' understanding of resistance-free electrical power. Tiny, isolated patches of superconductivity exist within these su...

31 May 2007

Scientists Find Novel Way to Control the Quantum State of an Electron's Spin

A University of Alberta research team has combined two fields of study in nanotechnology to create a third field that the researchers believe will lead to revolutionary advances in computer electronics, among many other ...

31 May 2007

New Method to get Atoms to Inerfere with One Another Hold Promise for Quantum Computing

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a novel way of making atoms interfere with each other, recreating a famous experiment originally done with light while also making...

28 May 2007

Creating High Efficiency LEDs from Nanowires

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with scientists from the University of Maryland and Howard University, have developed a technique to create tiny, highly efficien...

28 May 2007