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Aesthetic Dermatology Honors Caliber I.D. with Product of the Year Award for VivaScope System

Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics, formerly Lucid, Inc., has received the "Product of the Year 2013" Award from the German journal Aesthetic Dermatology for its VivaScope® system.

11 Apr 2014

Small-Diameter Nanowires Hold Promise for Efficient LEDs

Nanostructures half the breadth of a DNA strand could improve the efficiency of light emitting diodes (LEDs), especially in the "green gap," a portion of the spectrum where LED efficiency plunges, simulations at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have shown.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 7 Apr 2014

DNP Photomask Technology Taiwan Merges into Photronics Semiconductor Mask Corporation

Photronics, Inc., a worldwide leader in supplying innovative imaging technology solutions for the global electronics industry, today announced the successful closing of the previously announced joint venture with Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (DNP) (7912:Tokyo Stock Exchange).

4 Apr 2014

$Researchers Carry Out Resonant Diffraction of Single Crystal of CZTS Semiconductor$

Researchers Carry Out Resonant Diffraction of Single Crystal of CZTS Semiconductor

A new approach to studying solar panel absorber materials has been developed by researchers in France, Acta Cryst. (2014). B70, 390. The technique could accelerate the development of non-toxic and readily available alternatives to current absorbers in thin film based solar cells.

4 Apr 2014

New Compounds with Europium Complexes Record High Luminescence Quantum Yields

Researchers worldwide continue search for better luminescent materials for OLED manufacturing. Two new compounds with europium complexes developed at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw display in their class record high luminescence efficiencies in red, and their properties enable faster, low cost manufacturing of thin OLED films.

3 Apr 2014

Bruker Introduces New High-Resolution X-ray nano-CT system, SkyScan 2211

At Analytica 2014, Bruker today introduced the SkyScan TM 2211, a new high-resolution X-ray nano-CT (computed tomography) system with the widest available range of object sizes and spatial resolutions.

From Bruker 2 Apr 2014

Non-Invasive Optical Procedure for Rapid and Accurate Analysis of Living Cells

In order to investigate inflammation, tumors or stem cells, medical practitioners analyze living cells. Non-invasive optical procedures such as Raman spectroscopy accelerate this procedure. Researchers have now developed it to industrial scale.

2 Apr 2014

Colloidal Crystals Trapped Acoustically can be Reconfigured in Real-Time

Using an acoustic metadevice that can influence the acoustic space and can control any of the ways in which waves travel, engineers have demonstrated, for the first time, that it is possible to dynamically alter the geometry of a three-dimensional colloidal crystal in real time.

1 Apr 2014

Nanoparticles in Laser Traps Violate Second Law of Thermodynamics

Objects with sizes in the nanometer range, such as the molecular building blocks of living cells or nanotechnological devices, are continuously exposed to random collisions with surrounding molecules. In such fluctuating environments the fundamental laws of thermodynamics that govern our macroscopic world need to be rewritten.

1 Apr 2014

Terahertz Spectroscopy and Molecular-Dynamics Simulations Render Glycine Motion Visible in Water

Chemists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have, for the first time, completely analysed the fingerprint region of the Terahertz spectrum of a biologically relevant molecule in water, in this case, an amino acid.

29 Mar 2014