Microscopy News

RSS

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

Nanotechnology Inspired by Eyes of Moths and Wings of Cicadas to Lead to Anti-Reflective and Water Repellant Coatings and Better Solar Cells

Designing better solar cells might seem a question of electronics or chemistry, but for one University of Florida engineer, it starts with bugs. Peng Jiang, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, is drawing i...

29 Oct 2007

Fabrication Method Demonstrated for Making INdustrial Grade Nanowire Devices

In the growing catalog of nanoscale technologies, nanowires - tiny rows of conductor or semiconductor atoms - have attracted a great deal of interest for their potential to build unique atomic-scale electronics. But befo...

29 Oct 2007

Process of How Buckyballs Form Captured in Video Simulation

The birth secret of buckyballs - hollow spheres of carbon no wider than a strand of DNA - has been caught on tape by researchers at Sandia National Laboratory and Rice University. An electron microscope video and compute...

29 Oct 2007

JPK Instruments Named Fastest Growing Nanotech Company in Deloitte's "Technology Fast 50"

JPK Instruments AG, the market leader in BioSPM, is the No. 1 and hence the fastest growing company of the nanotech industry on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 ranking, which has been established for the fifth consecutiv...

From Bruker BioAFM 25 Oct 2007

Ultrafast Confocal Raman Imaging Introduced by Witec as Optional Feature

WITec, specialist in high-resolution optical and scanning probe microscopy, introduces the "Ultrafast Raman Imaging Option" for the alpha300 R Confocal Raman Microscope. With this option the acquisition time fo...

From Oxford Instruments WITec 25 Oct 2007

Learning about Nanotechnology with a Video, The Twinkie Guide to Nanotechnology

The Twinkie Guide to Nanotechnology is an entertaining new video featuring scientist Andrew Maynard which mixes the iconic American snack cake with humor to unlock the mysteries of nanotechnology. Maynard serves up th...

23 Oct 2007

New Laser Could Lead to Ultrahigh Resolution Microscopes for Chemical Imaging in Biology and Medicine

In a major feat of nanotechnology engineering researchers from Harvard University have demonstrated a laser with a wide-range of potential applications in chemistry, biology and medicine. Called a quantum cascade (QC) la...

23 Oct 2007