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Funding to Support Current and Pending Nanotechnology Development

Pixelligent Technologies, an emerging leader in developing nanotechnology applications, announced today it has closed on $2 million in new equity financing. Pixelligent is developing ground breaking applications in optic...

28 May 2009

Nanometrics Receives Follow On Order for Multiple Atlas Metrology Systems

Nanometrics Incorporated (Nasdaq:NANO), a leading supplier of advanced process control metrology systems used primarily in the manufacturing of semiconductors, solar photovoltaics and high-brightness LEDs, today announce...

28 May 2009

Revolutionary Production Solution that Simplifies the Manufacturing of Crystalline Solar Cells

Today, Oerlikon Systems (SWX:OERL) demonstrates for the first time SOLARIS, a revolutionary production solution that simplifies the manufacturing of crystalline solar cells. "The trick was to combine our vast experience on highly productive optical disc deposition equipment (CD/DVD/Blu-ray) as well as our leading nanocoating technology."

28 May 2009

Main Supplier to the Three Largest PV Production Sites Worldwide

In this context, Air Liquide significantly enhanced its leadership position by signing several new contracts since January 2009 with solar cell manufacturers in 5 countries and will invest globally €13 million to meet the needs of those customers.

27 May 2009

Clinical Application of Nanomedicine-Based Technology for Non-Invasive Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells

A first-of-its-kind clinical trial exploring a way to diagnose cancer in its earliest stages is being conducted at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute through a National Cancer Institute grant.

27 May 2009

Miniaturized Gas Sensor Using Hybrid Nanostructures Supported on Multiwalled CNTs

Argonne Center for Nanoscale Materials staff in the Nanofabrication + Devices Group together with collaborative users from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have fabricated a miniaturized gas sensor using hybrid nanostructures consisting of SnO2 nanocrystals supported on multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs).

From Argonne National Laboratory Center for Nanoscale Materials 27 May 2009

Researchers Detected Evidence of Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in Nanowires

A team of researchers at the University of Illinois has demonstrated that, counter to classical Newtonian mechanics, an entire collection of superconducting electrons in an ultrathin superconducting wire is able to "tunnel" as a pack from a state with a higher electrical current to one with a notably lower current, providing more evidence of the phenomenon of macroscopic quantum tunneling.

27 May 2009