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New Device for Calibrating Lasers for Atomic Physics Research

A tiny device for calibrating or stabilizing precision lasers has been designed and demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The prototype device could replace table-top-sized instrument...

14 May 2007

Optical Properties of Fluorescent Nanoparticles Open Possibilities for Cellular Imaging

Scientists from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, have successfully exploited the optical properties of fluorescent nanoparticles to broaden the scope of single-cell microscopy. By using nanoparticles, they succ...

9 May 2007

On-Line Registration Available for Veeco's Seeing at Nanoscale V Conference

Veeco Instruments Inc., a leading provider of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, announced on-line registration for the "Seeing at the Nanoscale V" conference to be held at the University of California, Santa ...

8 May 2007

Optimal Control of Quantum Rings by Terahertz Laser Pulses

The research team from the Physics of Materials group at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), the UPV/EHU Mixed Centre Physics of Materials group and the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF), led ...

8 May 2007

Veeco and Leica Integrate AFM and Microscope to Create BioScope II AFM

Veeco Instruments Inc., a leading provider of instrumentation to the nanoscience community, and Leica Microsystems GmbH, a leading designer and manufacturer of optical microscopy imaging systems, have finalized a product...

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 7 May 2007

Platinum Nanocrystals Provide Increase Catalytic Activity

A research team composed of electrochemists and materials scientists from two continents has produced a new form of the industrially-important metal platinum: 24-facet nanocrystals whose catalytic activity per unit area ...

5 May 2007

Multinozzle Nanoelectrospray Emitter Array to Accelerate Proteomics Research

In recent years, the science of biology has been dominated by genomics - the study of genes and their functions. The genomics era is now making way for the era of proteomics - the study of the proteins that genes encode....

3 May 2007

Nanotechnologists Use X-Rays to See How Antiferromagnets Work

Collaborative research between scientists in the UK and USA has led to a major breakthrough in the understanding of antiferromagnets, published in this week’s Nature. Scientists at the London Centre for Nanotechnol...

2 May 2007

New System for Accurately Placing Nanowires on Semiconductor Wafers

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised a system for manipulating and precisely positioning individual nanowires on semiconductor wafers. Their technique, described in a rece...

1 May 2007

University of Cincinnati Lead The World in Extremely Long Carbon Nanotube Arrays

University of Cincinnati researchers lead the world in the synthesis of extremely long aligned carbon nanotube arrays; research has implications for medical, aerospace, electronic and other applications. UC engineer...

26 Apr 2007