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Researchers Study Ultrashort Laser Ablation Plumes for Nanoparticle Film Application

Laser ablation is well known in medical applications like dermatology and dentistry, and for more than a decade it has been used to vaporize materials that are difficult to evaporate for high-tech applications like depos...

22 Sep 2010

New Laser Cooling Method Has Potential Application in Quantum Computing

Ever since audiences heard Goldfinger utter the famous line, "No, Mr. Bond; I expect you to die," as a laser beam inched its way toward James Bond and threatened to cut him in half, lasers have been thought of as white-hot beams of intensely focused energy capable of burning through anything in their path.

22 Sep 2010

Cree Announces New Facility for 150mm LED Wafer Production

Cree, Inc. continues to lead the LED Lighting Revolution with the announcement of a new 150mm LED wafer production facility in Research Triangle Park (RTP) that is targeted to create hundreds of green jobs in North Carolina.

From Wolfspeed, Inc. 21 Sep 2010

Vistec Lithography Receives Order for EBPG5200 System from AMO

Vistec Lithography, Inc., a leading supplier of advanced electron-beam lithography systems, announced today that AMO GmbH, a research service provider for nanotechnology located in Aachen (Germany), has placed an order for Vistec’s electron-beam lithography system EBPG5200.

21 Sep 2010

Nano Israel 2010 Conference to be Held on November 8-9

The "Nano Israel 2010" Conference and the Exhibition accompanying will be held on November the 8th and the 9th in the Dan Panorama Hotel, Tel Aviv.

21 Sep 2010

Gold Nanotips Concentrate Light from Laser and Amplifying it by 1,000 Times

Everybody who's ever used a TV, radio or cell phone knows what an antenna does: It captures the aerial signals that make those devices practical. A lab at Rice University has built an antenna that captures light in the same way, at a small scale that has big potential.

20 Sep 2010

Nanoscience Researchers Find Way to Control Single Quantum Spin

Finding ways to control matter at the level of single atoms and electrons fascinates many scientists and engineers because the ability to manipulate single charges and single magnetic moments (spins) may help researchers penetrate deep into the mysteries of quantum mechanics and modern solid-state physics.

18 Sep 2010