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Carbon Nanotube-Based Material Creating Directionally-Varied Adhesive Force

The race for the best "gecko foot" dry adhesive got a new competitor this week with a stronger and more practical material reported in the journal Science by a team of researchers from four U.S. institutions.

10 Oct 2008

Leading Supplier for MEMS Market Receives Multiple Orders for EVG Systems

EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced that three European universities -- Southampton University, University...

7 Oct 2008

New State-of-the-Art Equipment Will Help Photovoltaics Group at South Dakota

South Dakota scientists' work building next-generation devices to harvest solar energy will be easier thanks to a National Science Foundation grant for state-of-the-art equipment.

4 Oct 2008

Leading Nanoelectronics Research Institute to Collaborate on Green LED Manufacturing Technology

IMEC, Europe's leading independent nanoelectronics research institute, and Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. (TNSC), a total solution provider in the compound semiconductor field, today announce that they have signed an agree...

3 Oct 2008

Atomically Precise Manufacturing Consortium Receives Award from Texas' ETF and DARPA

Zyvex Labs today announced the award of a $9.7M program funded by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and Texas' ETF (Emerging Technology Fund). The goal of this effort is to develop a new manufacturing...

3 Oct 2008

Nanomaterial-Based Biomedical Device has Potential to Transform Cancer Treatment

A Northwestern University research team has developed a promising nanomaterial-based biomedical device that could be used to deliver chemotherapy drugs locally to sites where cancerous tumors have been surgically removed...

3 Oct 2008

New Thin Film Metrology Tools for MEMS to be Launched at Semicon Europa 2008

PANalytical will launch new products and showcase its full range
of innovative X-ray metrology solutions on booth #144 at Semicon Europa 2008,
October 7-9, Stuttgart Trade Fair Centre, Germany.

2 Oct 2008

CVD Equipment Corporation Announces $5.9 Million of New Orders

CVD Equipment Corporation announced a new order quarterly booking record for the three month period ending September 30, 2008 of $5.9 million. This represents an increase of 16% over the same period in 2007 and a 20% inc...

From CVD Equipment Corporation 1 Oct 2008

SEMATECH Receives Best Paper Award for Work High-K Metal Gates

SEMATECH announced today that it has received the Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM) Best Paper Award for its work on reliability of high-k metal gates. The paper was presented at the International Conference on So...

1 Oct 2008

LayTec Receives Funding to Develop in-situ Sensor for Photovoltaic Market

LayTec is happy to announce that the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology has approved funding for the development of a new insitu sensor for the photovoltaic market! In collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), Germany, a research project has been launched to improve the in-situ monitoring of MOVPE processes for triple-junction photovoltaic cells being developed at Fraunhofer ISE.

From LayTec GmbH 30 Sep 2008