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In Situ Measurement of Film Thickness and Composition Now Possible with ThinFilmID

Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis introduces ThinFilmID for the in-situ measurement of composition and thickness of thin films down to 1nm in the SEM. ThinFilmID uses Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectrometry (EDS) to measu...

17 Jul 2008

FEI Connectivity Solutions Reduce Wafers-to-Atoms Time From Days to Hours

FEI Company, a leading provider of atomic-scale imaging and analysis systems, today announced the Ultimate Throughput™ and Ultimate Imaging™ Connectivity Solutions. By accelerating and improving the quality o...

15 Jul 2008

First Nanostructures Ever Measured on Another Planet

For the first time ever, nanostructures have been measured on another planet. On July 9, the NASA Phoenix Mars Probe recorded images with nanometer resolution (one nanometer roughly corresponds to 0.00000004 inch) using its onboard Swiss-made atomic force microscope.

12 Jul 2008

Nanosurf Atomic Force Microscope Has Been Used on Mars by Phoenix Mars Lander

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has finally used the onboard atomic force microscope from Nanosurf. We show the first AFM image from Mars

11 Jul 2008

One of the 100 Most Technologically Significant Innovations of the Year

WITec microscope technology has been selected as a winner of the prestigious 2008 R&D 100 Award. It honors the automated Confocal Raman and Atomic Force Microscope combination alpha500 as one of the 100 most technologically significant innovations of the year.

10 Jul 2008

Unique Research Facility to Study Trace Metals and Elements in Tissues

Agilent Technologies, Inc. and University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have teamed up to establish a unique research facility here to study trace metals and other elements in tissue, and their effects on health. The UT...

10 Jul 2008

A Method for Imaging Nanoparticles Inside Cells

Borrowing from a Nobel Prize-winning technique credited with starting the nanotechnology revolution, a team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Northwestern University's Nanomaterials for Can...

10 Jul 2008

Details Confirmed for 7th Annual Symposium on the Applications of Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM)

JPK announces the seventh annual symposium on the applications of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) in areas such as biophysical, biochemical and medical research. It will be held on the 8-9th October 2008 in Berlin. The f...

10 Jul 2008

New Line of Lasers using Quantum Dot Materials for Biomedical Applications

Laser technology has revolutionised the world of medicine in ways never before thought of. More and more often the scalpel is giving way to a new generation of lasers. Now the FAST-DOT project, backed by the EU with EUR ...

9 Jul 2008

PANalytical and Malvern Instruments Celebrate Opening of Their New Headquarters

On 23 May 2008, the PANalytical and Malvern Panalytical US teams celebrated the opening of their new headquarters. The sister companies now share state of the art facilities in Westborough, MA.

From Malvern Panalytical 8 Jul 2008