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CHAD Develops Tooling Options to Handle Smaller Sapphire Wafers

CHAD Industries announced today that it has developed wafer-handling capabilities for Sapphire wafers used in the LED market.

4 Aug 2010

MURI Grant Helps to Tackle Major Challenges in Quantum Computer Development

A research team based at the University of Pittsburgh has received a five-year, $7.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to tackle some of the most significant challenges preventing the development of quant...

4 Aug 2010

New Model Contributes to Quantum Gravity Theory

All of the matter in the universe—everything we see, feel and smell—has a certain predictable structure, thanks to the tiny electrons spinning around their atomic nuclei in a series of concentric shells or at...

4 Aug 2010

TruMicro Lasers from TRUMPF Ideal for Thin-Film Solar Cell Processing

"The laser as an industrial tool is a key technology in the photovoltaics industry," said Jürgen Stollhof, Program Manager Micro Processing at TRUMPF Inc., Farmington, USA. In his presentation "New lasertechnology to enhance the performance of photovoltaic cells," which was delivered at the trade fair Intersolar North America, July 2010 in San Francisco, he stated that new laser technologies, such as ultra-short pulsed lasers, for example, make new production methods possible.

3 Aug 2010

Software Speeds Nanotechnology Research Development at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) has named Brookhaven National Laboratory (Brookhaven Lab) — a national research laboratory overseen by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy — as the Autodesk In...

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 2 Aug 2010

WITec Acquires Majority of Optical Measurement Solution Provider

WITec GmbH announces the acquisition of the majority of the optical measurement solution provider omt optische messtechnik gmbh. With the addition of omt, WITec has taken an important step to further enhance its market position in the field of measurement technology for industrial applications.

From Oxford Instruments WITec 31 Jul 2010

UW Professor to Illustrate How Contact Lenses Can be Made to Monitor Health Using Nanotechnology

Imagine your contact lenses being able to improve your vision and tell your temperature.

31 Jul 2010

Physicists Realize Interaction Between Photons and Atoms in Nano-Structured Circuits

The interaction between matter and light represents one of the most fundamental processes in physics. Whether a car that heats up like an oven in the summer due to the absorption of light quanta or solar cells that extract electricity from light or light-emitting diodes that convert electricity into light, we encounter the effects of these processes throughout our daily lives.

31 Jul 2010

Bodkin Successfully Designs Spectral Reflectance Imaging Biosensor for Zoiray

Bodkin Design & Engineering, LLC (BD&E) working with Boston University and Zoίray Technologies, Inc (Zoίray) has succeeded in converting their basic research into a commercial instrument.

31 Jul 2010

OmniGuide Marks Ten Years of Achievement

OmniGuide® Inc, pioneer of the world’s most precise flexible surgical scalpel for minimally invasive surgery, recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary.

29 Jul 2010