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Micromen MRAM Production a Step Closer to Commercialisation

Micromem and Global Communication Semiconductors, Inc. (GCS) have successfully patterned and processed our own magnetic yoke design. This is significant in that this production- level process produced an extremely clean ...

2 Nov 2007

New iDrive Atomic Force Microscopy Accessory Allows Simpler AFM Fluid Imaging

Asylum Research, a manufacturer of advanced Atomic Force Microscopes (AFMs), introduces the iDrive cantilever holder. This new microscope accessory simplifies AFM fluid imaging and allows auto-tuning of cantilevers...

2 Nov 2007

Teneo Micro Instruments Launches Low Cost, Precision Microtools for Life Sciences and MEMs Applications

Teneo Micro Instruments LLC, an IP2Biz company, announced the launch of the Teneo TM70xx line of mechanically actuated microtools. The tool set, created by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, offers a div...

2 Nov 2007

Heavier Atoms Vibrate at Lower Frequencies and Reduce Friction at the Nanoscale

A research team led by a University of Pennsylvania mechanical engineer has discovered that friction between two sliding bodies can be reduced at the molecular, or nanoscale, level by changing the mass of the atoms at th...

2 Nov 2007

NIH Recognizes Clemson Nanotechnology for Molecule Tracking

The National Institutes of Health has awarded two Clemson chemistry faculty nearly $1 million to detect, track and image the interior of cells. Jason McNeill and Ken Christensen will receive the $960,000 grant to develop...

1 Nov 2007

New Magnet Design to Revolutionise Nanotechnology and Semiconductor Research

Engineers at Florida State University’s National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have successfully tested a groundbreaking new magnet design that could literally shed new light on nanoscience and semiconductor resea...

1 Nov 2007

Self Selection and Evolution in the Nano World

The automatic molecular assembly and selection steps exhibited by the molecules, which start as random mixtures, demonstrates a fundamental step in the evolution of life. The organization is activated by instructions whi...

31 Oct 2007

Cell Tractor Beam Could Be Used to Manipulate Tiny Things on Chips

In a feat that seems like something out of a microscopic version of Star Trek, MIT researchers have found a way to use a “tractor beam” of light to pick up, hold, and move around individual cells and other ob...

31 Oct 2007

Helium Ion Microscope from Carl Zeiss Wins Wall Street Journal 'Technology Innovations Award'

Dr. Nicholas P. Economou and Bill Ward from Carl Zeiss SMT, Inc., Peabody, Massachusetts, recently received the Wall Street Journal “Technology Innovation Award” 2007. The award was presented in the category ...

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 30 Oct 2007

Piezo Step Linear Motors for Ultra-High Precision Applications New Brochure Released by PI

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. a leading manufacturer of ultra-precision motion-control and sensing equipment for bio / nanotechnology, photonics, semiconductor and life science applications -- offers a new brochure on pie...

29 Oct 2007