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Unidym, Guardian Collaborate to Introduce Coated Glass Products in Touch Panel Industry

Unidym, a majority owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research, announced today that it has entered an agreement with global glass manufacturer Guardian Industries to develop and commercialize carbon coated glass products for touch screen devices and other applications.

20 May 2010

Shortage of Sapphire Wafers Affect LED Market Expansion

The fast-growing market for high-brightness LEDs in LCD TVs will be restricted by a shortage of key semiconductor materials in the second half of 2010, as predicted by Strategy Analytics, in its report, “Materials Shortage to Restrict Rampant LED Market.”

19 May 2010

Researchers Develop New Nanotechnology-Based "Microlens"

Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new nanotechnology-based "microlens" that uses gold to boost the strength of infrared imaging and could lead to a new generation of ultra-powerful satellite cameras and night-vision devices.

18 May 2010

Advancements in Nanaolaser Application

Research at Arizona State University is promising to expand the potential of laser technology. Engineers and scientists led by professor Cun-Zheng Ning, for instance, are making advances in the use of nanolasers that ...

18 May 2010

Ten-Qubit Hyper-Entangled Schrödinger Cat State Successfully Generated by Researchers

Ten-qubit hyper-entangled Schrödinger cat state was successfully generated recently by a research group from the Quantum Physics and Quantum Information (QPQI) Division of the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale at the University of Science and Technology of China.

18 May 2010

New Lithium-Ion Battery Technology Based on NMR Spectroscopy

Scientists at Cambridge have developed a simple, accurate way of "seeing" chemistry in action inside a lithium-ion battery.

17 May 2010

EIT Experiments Lead to Development of Quantum Computer

Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) describes the effect, that the interaction of an atomic medium with a weak laser field can be controlled and manipulated coherently with a second, strong laser field. Pra...

14 May 2010

Quantum Experiment Helps to Understand Interactions Between Microscopic Particles

MPQ-LMU scientists demonstrate for the first time exotic multi-particle interactions between ultracold atoms in an artificial crystal of light. At extremely low temperatures atoms can aggregate into so-called Bose Einstein condensates forming coherent laser-like matter waves.

14 May 2010

Leading Assembly and Test Supplier Orders Camtek’s Falcon System

Camtek Ltd. (NASDAQ and TASE: CAMT) ("Camtek"), announced today that a leading assembly and test supplier in Asia has selected the Falcon, Camtek's Automatic Optical Inspection (AOI) system, for a 2D and 3D...

14 May 2010

Novel Sensor to Detect Dangerous Airborne Chemicals

A tiny silicon chip that works a bit like a nose may one day detect dangerous airborne chemicals and alert emergency responders through the cell phone network.

14 May 2010