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New Light-Emitting Transistor Setting New Record

Researchers have constructed a light-emitting transistor that has set a new record with a signal-processing modulation speed of 4.3 gigahertz, breaking the previous record of 1.7 gigahertz held by a light-emitting diode.

15 Jun 2009

Scientists Create a Material that Does Not Expand when Heated

By squeezing a typical metal alloy at pressures hundreds of thousands of times greater than normal atmospheric pressure, scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a material that does no...

15 Jun 2009

LOT-Oriel Introduces Xi-100 Non-Contact Optical Profiler from Ambios Technology

The Xi-100 Non-Contact Optical Interferometer from Ambios Technology quickly and accurately measures the 3D topography of surfaces at the nanometer level.

From Quantum Design UK and Ireland Ltd 15 Jun 2009

New Film Enables Production of Unmistakable and Unique IDs

In 2008, debit card fraud with counterfeit cards caused losses of around EUR 40 million in Germany. Now, the new polycarbonate film Makrofol® ID ProteXXion from Bayer MaterialScience AG could put a stop to this kind of fraud once and for all.

15 Jun 2009

Lightwave Logic Re-Confirms Earlier Test Results of Perkinamine Class Materials

Lightwave Logic, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: LWLG), a development stage company, moving toward prototype demonstration and commercialization of its high-activity, high-stability organic polymers for applications in electro...

14 Jun 2009

Technologies Exploiting Quantum Mechanics Could Debut in the Very Near Future

Technologies that exploit the unique weirdness of quantum mechanics could debut in the very near future, thanks to the groundbreaking work of a huge European research consortium. Unbreakable cryptography, unimaginable si...

14 Jun 2009

Binding Nanoparticles Together With Useful Materials Properties

Researchers at New York University have created a method to precisely bind nano- and micrometer-sized particles together into larger-scale structures with useful materials properties. Their work, which appears in the lat...

14 Jun 2009

HRL Laboratories Awarded Phase II Contract from DARPA

HRL Laboratories, LLC, a corporate research-and-development laboratory owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors specializing in research into sensors and materials, information and systems sciences, applied electro...

12 Jun 2009

Measuring Charge States of Individual Gold and Silver Atoms

Scientists in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland have successfully measured the charge states of individual gold and silver atoms using an innovative approach to atomic force microscopy (AFM).

12 Jun 2009

Rubicon Showcases Large Diameter Sapphire Products for Wafers

Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), an advanced electronic materials provider that is engaged in developing, manufacturing and selling monocrystalline sapphire and other crystalline products for light-emitting diodes...

12 Jun 2009