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Microfabrication of Semiconductors Using Classic Equipment from 1957

A 1957 classic sits in the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) clean room. It’s not a Chevy, but a Veeco vacuum evaporator more than six feet tall and five feet wide. The evaporator, still in use today, d...

27 Nov 2007

High Performance Field Effect Transistors Made at Room Temperature with Thin Films of Carbon 60

Using room-temperature processing, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have fabricated high-performance field effect transistors with thin films of Carbon 60, also known as fullerene. The ability to produc...

27 Nov 2007

Ultrafast Electron Microscopy Reveals Light Switchable Nanochannels in Materials

Microscopic fissures in a tiny crystal open and close - on command. Researchers led by Ahmed H. Zewail successfully used ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM) to observe nanoscopic structures at their “exercises&rdqu...

27 Nov 2007

Reliable Analytical Method for Accurately Determining the Percentage of Carbon, Hydrogen and Nitrogen Content in Difficult to Combust Perfluorinated Compounds

Exeter Analytical has released a new application note that describes a reliable analytical method for accurately determining the percentage Carbon (C), Hydrogen (H) and Nitrogen (N) content of difficult to combust perflu...

27 Nov 2007

Nanotechnology Industry Body to Support Unified Representation of all Nanotechnology Industries

Today, the UK’s biggest nanotechnology trade fair, marks the launch of the Nanotechnology Industries Asociation formation as a limited company, enabling the lobbying body to abandon previous restrictions and fully ...

27 Nov 2007

Halo, Jeep and Nanotechnology Result in Wild, Radical, Yet Environmentally Friendly Concept Car

Chrysler has just released a few details about their 2008 Jeep Renegade Concept car. With design cues reminiscent of vehicles in the computer game Halo the SUV uses nanotech enabled lithium ion batteries to suppliment th...

26 Nov 2007

Latest Version Vibration Acquisition Analysis Software Released for the Polytec PSV-400 Series Scanning Laser Vibrometers

Polytec have just released the latest edition of its comprehensive data acquisition, presentation and analysis software, PSVSoft 8.5. An evolution of earlier versions, PSVSoft 8.5 has been extended to provide a number...

26 Nov 2007

Trade in Program for Old Scanning Laser Vibrometer Systems

There are a large number of older Polytec PSV-100 and PSV-200 scanning laser vibrometer systems in daily use still giving good service, but increasingly, they are becoming more vulnerable with regard to servicing and rep...

26 Nov 2007

Nanoparticles Created That Can Move Across Oil and Water Interface and Transport Gold Across the Boundary

Achieving the desired effect is often only a question of the right place and the right moment - and this also applies to drugs. In order to be transported in the bloodstream, they need to be water-soluble. However, in or...

26 Nov 2007

Cooper Pairs Found in Insulators and in Superconductors

Fifty years after the Noble Prize-winning work that explained superconductivity was proposed, a team of Brown University physicists has made a remarkable additional discovery: The same pairs of electrons that form in sup...

26 Nov 2007

Scientists Worried by Health and Environmental Impacts of Nanotechnology

The unknown human health and environmental impacts of nanotechnology are a bigger worry for scientists than for the public, according to a new report published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. The new report was ...

26 Nov 2007

Solar Panel Manufacturers in China to Keep Solar Panel Prices Steady and Increase Production

Despite higher polysilicon prices, most Greater China solar panel manufacturers say they plan to lower or keep prices steady to win market share. This is according to Global Sources' China Sourcing Report: Solar Pane...

26 Nov 2007

Patents Awarded for Innovative Semiconductor Production Equipment for the Manufacturing of Low Defect Nitride Semiconductor Materials

Technologies and Devices International, Inc. (TDI), a privately held Maryland corporation, announced today that it has been awarded a United States Patent, US 7,279,047 B2, the latest in a series of patents that cover ne...

23 Nov 2007

University of Delaware's Center for Composite Materials and Korea Institute of Materials Team Up on Nanotechnology

A team that includes two faculty affiliated with UD's Center for Composite Materials (CCM) and researchers from the Korea Institute of Materials (KIMS) has been selected to receive a $5 million grant from the Korea M...

23 Nov 2007

Future of Nanotechnology in Europe Discussed at Forum

Policy-makers, scientists and industrialists have come together in Braga, Portugal to discuss the future of nanotechnology research in Europe. This comes at a positive time for European nanotechnology, with the public-pr...

23 Nov 2007

Nanotechnology News

Microfabrication of Semiconductors Using Classic Equipment from 1957

High Performance Field Effect Transistors Made at Room Temperature with Thin Films of Carbon 60

Ultrafast Electron Microscopy Reveals Light Switchable Nanochannels in Materials

Reliable Analytical Method for Accurately Determining the Percentage of Carbon, Hydrogen and Nitrogen Content in Difficult to Combust Perfluorinated Compounds

Nanotechnology Industry Body to Support Unified Representation of all Nanotechnology Industries

Halo, Jeep and Nanotechnology Result in Wild, Radical, Yet Environmentally Friendly Concept Car

Latest Version Vibration Acquisition Analysis Software Released for the Polytec PSV-400 Series Scanning Laser Vibrometers

Trade in Program for Old Scanning Laser Vibrometer Systems

Nanoparticles Created That Can Move Across Oil and Water Interface and Transport Gold Across the Boundary

Cooper Pairs Found in Insulators and in Superconductors

Scientists Worried by Health and Environmental Impacts of Nanotechnology

Solar Panel Manufacturers in China to Keep Solar Panel Prices Steady and Increase Production

Patents Awarded for Innovative Semiconductor Production Equipment for the Manufacturing of Low Defect Nitride Semiconductor Materials

University of Delaware's Center for Composite Materials and Korea Institute of Materials Team Up on Nanotechnology

Future of Nanotechnology in Europe Discussed at Forum

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