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Nano-sized Grating in Electron Microscope to Enable Fiber Optic Communications

Information relayed through fiber optic cables need to emit signals that can be identified at the opposite end.

20 Apr 2011

Tessera Announces Formation of New Group to Develop, Acquire and Monetize Semiconductor Technologies

San Jose, California-based Tessera Technologies has created a group to develop, procure and fund use of semiconductor technologies beyond packaging.

16 Apr 2011

Deep UV Laser Beam Helps Trace Particles at 22 nm

Applied Materials has introduced a technology to analyze interconnects in 22 nm and under-performing memory and logic chips.

From Applied Materials Inc. 28 Mar 2011

Single-Photon Sources for Optical Communications

A research team at the University of Bristol in the UK has discovered single-photon sources, which will help secure visual communications known as ‘quantum cryptography’.

22 Mar 2011

NSG Precision Cells Manufactures Custom Flow Cells

NSG Precision Cells has been manufacturing flow cells for flow cytometry, HPLC, life sciences, etc. for over 50 years.

5 Mar 2011

Performance Comparison of Implen's NanoPhotometer Pearl and Thermo Fisher's NanoDrop 2000c

Spectrophotometers allow for quantification of nucleic acid and protein samples based on absorbance at 260nm and 280nm, respectively.

4 Mar 2011

Research Team Builds Silicon Optical Chips Using Nanofabrication Tools

In an effort to make it easier to build inexpensive, next-generation silicon-based electro-optical chips, which allow computers to move information with light and electricity, a University of Washington photonics professor, Dr. Michael Hochberg and his research team are developing design tools and using commercial nanofabrication tools.

4 Mar 2011

KIT to Submit Proposals for Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) will go into the final round of the Excellence Initiative II with three new and three follow-up proposals.

4 Mar 2011

JQI Scientists' Spin-Orbit Coupling Technique Has Potential Applications in Quantum Computing

Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland-College Park, have for the first time caused a gas of atoms to exhibit an important quantum phenomenon known as spin-orbit coupling.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 4 Mar 2011

ASU Secures $1 Million Grant for Developing New 3D Imaging Microscope

The W. M. Keck Foundation has awarded Arizona State University a $1 million grant to the team of scientists led by Deirdre Meldrum at the Biodesign Institute.

From Arizona State University 4 Mar 2011